Paige Booker of Lisbon checks the time on her watch as she and Emma Randall, left, of Lewiston wait for the doors to open at 5 a.m. Friday at Kohl’s in Auburn. Friday was Booker’s first early morning Black Friday experience. Not so for Randall. “She likes to recruit friends to come out on Black Friday,” Mary Randall, center, says about her daughter. Booker and the Randalls were first in line at 4 a.m. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Nikki Doucette of Auburn talks Friday with a Walmart employee shortly before the Auburn store opened at 6 a.m. “I already have 12 gifts at home already wrapped, but I came just to look around,” says Doucette. “I am here to make sure she does not spend our fortune,” jokes Doucette’s husband, Brian Jordan, not pictured. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Karla Archer, second from left, and Shelley Jackson, second from right, both from Poland, wait for the doors to open at 5 a.m. Friday at Kohl’s in Auburn. “I stopped counting after 15,” Archer says when asked how many years she and Jackson have been shopping together on Black Friday. “She (Jackson) was my son’s first grade teacher, and he is now 27,” said Archer. “We never go for purpose, just the experience,” says Jackson about shopping on Black Friday. Pictured from left are Mary Randall, Archer, Ellie Jackson, Shelley Jackson and Jody Pulkkinen. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Frosty the Snowman greets customers Friday morning at Kohl’s in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Mabila Christel of Lewiston stays warm while waiting for Walmart to open early Friday morning in Auburn.  Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Shoppers line up just before 6 a.m. Friday at Walmart in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Eli Lee, right, and Dylan Michael, both of Lewiston, head into Walmart as the doors open at 6 a.m. Friday in Auburn. The couple arrived at Walmart at 5 a.m. and were the first in line. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Shoppers enter the front door to Kohl’s as the store opens at 5 a.m. Friday in Auburn. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Shoppers line up just before 5 a.m. Friday at Kohl’s in Auburn. Kohl’s employees handed out Kohl’s Cash to the first 200 customers through the door. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Dustin Spencer-L’Heureux of Hartford leaves Walmart shortly after 6 a.m. Friday in Auburn. Spencer-L’Heureux says he was able to get an electric ATV for his nephew at half price by shopping on Black Friday. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal