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After a record-breaking Black Friday, online retailers geared up for Cyber Monday, which has become an undeniably real thing — surprising even the people who invented it.

Cyber Monday. Green Tuesday. Black Friday. Magenta Saturday.

On the eve of "Cyber Monday," online retailers reported an even stronger start to the holiday shopping season than brick-and-mortar stores.

Cyber Monday, now a sacrosanct day for retailers with even the more basic of websites, is not even ten years years old.A Coined by the National Retail Federation, the term refers to a trend established after consumers got a taste of the wonders of high-speed Internet, but were not likely to have it in their own homes.

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Fifteen Black Friday bargain-hunters suffered minor injuries at a crowded Wal-Mart store late Thursday after an angry woman used pepper spray during a confrontation about shoppers cutting in line.

At Macy’s Herald Square store, an estimated 9,000 people were waiting for its midnight opening on Friday, more than in the last couple of years.

Black Friday marks the official start to the holiday shopping season, a time when retailers brace for hordes of deal-seeking shoppers. But spending varies from city to city.

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Stores aren’t even waiting for Black Friday this year to kick off the holiday-sale madness, but there are some things shoppers should keep in mind before they scarf their turkey and hit the sales.

Retailers rely heavily on Black Friday to boost their sales figures, more so today in a lackluster economy. That means their usual tricks will be deployed, like jaw-dropping prices on items available in such limited quantities that it’s almost inevitable you’ll have to settle for a more expensive alternative.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg.