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I’m no expert on judging how busy things are at Tacoma Mall, but Mary Hilton is. She shops there twice a week, and she was there this morning with her two daughters, Marne and Michelle, and husband Wayne.
“I don’t think it’s too bad,” she said, with “bad” being so crowded you wouldn’t be able to walk around freely.
“I think it’s like a regular Saturday,” she said.
You could easily walk around on the day after Christmas.
Michelle had come with the family to return one item, a pair of pajamas, and “get a good deal on something else,” which turned out to be a shirt and sweater at Macy’s.
The family also bought the last stick of summer sausage available at Hickory Farms.
Down the way, a Mrs. Morris of Lakewood was standing with her daughter, and she said she'd been out shopping since 6:30 a.m.
“We went to Target, Pier One and then here,” she said.
She’d been trolling for good deals. “When we get in the car, we know where we’re going. I think Macy’s had good bargains. At 6:30, there weren’t many people out at all, but about 20 people were waiting by the door at Starbucks. I thought there would be a lot more people here.”
Bob Mack, deputy director at Tacoma Public Utilities, was at the mall with his sister Kathy and nephew Aaron Klein of Seattle.
Mack had patronized the opening day of a menswear sale at Nordstrom - and not for the first time.
“I come for the sale every Dec. 26. It’s my tradition,” Mack said, holding a sack of dress shirts and ties. “I’m really not a mall shopper.”
Those who are mall shoppers encountered difficulties only in the parking lots, where ice and slush still covered many of the spaces, and where drivers had decided to park a bit willy-nilly, taking up two and sometimes three slots.
The longest lines looked to be at Starbucks and at a few of the vendors at the food court. The Hickory Farms kiosk looked to have the emptiest shelves.
