A peaceful Black Friday in Mount Pleasant

Black Friday came and went with no problems in the Mount Pleasant area. You can’t say the same thing around the country.

According to the Daily News website, a Wal-Mart worker died early Friday after an "out-of-control" mob of frenzied shoppers smashed through the Long Island, NY, store's front doors and trampled him, police said.

This was not the case for the stores in Mount Pleasant.

“The stores were not as bad as I thought they would be,” said Brian Hampshire, Bay City. “I was in town for the holidays and thought I would go out and catch some of the sales real early and the lines were long, but no problems in them. Nothing like it has been in the past.”

Some of the stores in town didn’t want to take any chances with problems on this normally crazy shopping day. Target was one of those stores.

Target officials asked the Isabella County Sheriff's Department to have a deputy on hand for crowd control on the busy shopping day, according to The Morning Sun.

Some other shoppers didn’t have as great of an experience.

“The lines were crazy to wait in,” said Jake Sproul, Redford senior. “Too many people trying to get deals. This was my first time going out shopping for Black Friday and will probably never do it again.”

The longer lines were a good thing for local stores. Many were worried with the economy being so bad that Black Friday would not turn out as expected.

“It was good to see people out shopping and spending money,” Hampshire said. “The businesses needed the support and it was a great show of support by the people in Mount Pleasant.”