It’s literally Black Friday as some stores at New Jersey mall lose power

Real Black Friday as stores lose power at NJ mall

BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Black Friday began truly black at one New Jersey Mall.

Customers at the Radio Shack store in the Bridgewater Commons Mall used flashlights to search for high-tech bargains as a power outage affected several stores shortly after the mall’s 6 a.m. opening.

The staff used handwritten tickets to process sales before the lights came on there and at most other stores about 45 minutes later.

However, Bloomingdale’s — one of the mall’s anchors — remained in the dark as of 2 p.m., and it was not known when or if power would be restored there. Employees standing at the store’s entrances handed out $15 mall gift cards.

The cause of the outage remained unclear Friday afternoon.