Big Apple bargain hunters were more starved for sales than stuffing this Thanksgiving, with crowds storming big chain stores throughout the city to get a jump on Black Friday deals.
“I’m number one [in line]!” Maria Acosta, 58, insisted as she leaned against the dead-bolted double door of the Best Buy near Columbus Circle around 2 p.m. Thursday.
“No you’re not,” rival shopper Ali Ammar countered. “You’re number two!”
It was prime turkey time for most folks. But Acosta said she had stuffed her family-size turkey into her nearby apartment oven at dawn, telling the kids to bird-sit while she hoofed it over to the electronics chain store.
She was on line at 8 a.m. for the in-store-only big screen TV sale.
Nothing was going to come between Acosta and a $199.99 58-inch Insignia television. Not a still-roasting turkey, not Ammar — who is actually her neighbor — and not her current battle with ovarian cancer, for which she gets chemo treatments once a week.
“I had chemo yesterday. My doctor says to rest,” Acosta told The Post. “I said rest? Tomorrow I’m going shopping!”
She gave a laugh and pantomimed passing out.
“I have cancer. I’m going to die. But you have to live your life. I want a nice TV. I want a big TV to see it better,” she said.
Meanwhile, at JCPenney at the Queens Center mall in Elmhurst, several hundred shoppers stood on line, lashed by Thursday’s high winds, in time for the 2 p.m. opening.
They were watched intently by a cadre of NYPD officers, store security and a man selling pre-made cotton candy.
“They do this because there have been stampedes here in the past,” said one mall security guard, who declined to give his name.
The department store’s big draw was its $7.99 deals. For that low, low price, shoppers could nab a Black & Decker four-slice toaster that’s typically $70 — after a mail-in rebate.
“I bought an iron for $10 and a pot set for $50. There are very good deals here,” said Nilesh Shah, 46, an accountant from Queens.
“Our family is waiting for us for dinner at their house at 4:30 to 5 o’clock,” confessed Patricia Hurtado of Queens, as she waited for the mall’s Macy’s to open at 3 p.m.
She had her eye on a deal where she could get 70% off a pair of small diamond earrings with a $50 purchase. For that, she said, Thanksgiving dinner could wait.
“We’re hoping to make it or they’re going to kill us, but these deals are too good to pass up, and tomorrow is too crazy to shop,” Hurtado said.
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