Heres my black friday pro tip.
Instead of camping out at your local retail stores go out of your way and stake out the retail stores and malls located in the uber rich part of town. you know, those snobby stores/malls that start calling security when you walk in. Since they're super upscale and customers there are loaded, these stores wont be jam packed on black friday. Why would the rich need discounts, you dont see them waiting in line!
Thanks to this strategy last year I walked into a mall/sears at the middle of the night, asked if they were open and was treated like I owned the place. The sales people were happy someone walked in and treated them with an ounce of decency, it was almost creepy. they even load a 46" LED TV into my car out front for me.