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[ cheers ] >> oh, my god! >> reporter: shopping scenes like this seen as baked into thanksgiving tradition as turkey. cherish this footage. it may soon be replaced with more screen scenes. more than 50% of black friday shopping traffic this year is expected to be from smart phones where typical retail holiday hours don't exist. in fact, $3.7 billion worth of online purchases already happened on thanksgiving day. more than double that, $7.7 billion, is expected to be spent on cyber monday. fear not, door buster deals got their name for a reason, and in-store promotions are drawing shoppers, too...

Spent on cybermonday. but fear not. door buster deals got their name for a reason, and in-store promotions are drawing shoppers, too. >> you see the bricks and mortar retailers are doing buy online, pick up in store or buy in store and deliver in home. they're using digital strategies to serve customers. >> reporter: what should you stock up on? if you want to save money now, analysts say anything made in china. >> so we're in a little dispute with china. we put $250 billion worth of tariffs on china. 25%. >> reporter: since china's retaliatory tariffs went into effect in september, some 5,700...

$3.7 billion was spent, and i am talking about thanksgiving day while people are eating turking and on their phones shopping, and by black friday, $6 billion expected to be spent. what are they spending on? they are buying drones, and laptops, and electronics are a big draw for holiday shoppers this year. what else is drawing shoppers? game consoles. anything gaming people want. the big game this year, it's call of duty, black ops. the national retail federation expect november and december, we will see people spend anywhere from 717 to $720 billion in two months on holiday shopping. >> thank ...