Shoppers wait outside a BestBuy (一个专门卖电子产品的连锁店) store to open at 5 a.m. in Los Angeles, California, a day after Thanksgiving. US shoppers snapped (猛抓：突然抓住或握住，并且带有激情) up bargain basement deals on so-called Black Friday as desperate retailers attempted to claw their way out of a deepening slump (衰退).
(AFP/Jewel Samad)