In NJ, one WalMart I visited began sales at 7am (when they opened) on all sale products -except- the laptop -- which for some reason they held back until 8am -- and the other store handed out "tickets" for items but refused to -sell- them until 8. 'Guess they met some corporate rules with that silliness, but it only benefited those who could only get an item because someone else couldn't hang around until 8!
Each store was restricting purchasers to a single unit of anything, thus requiring my visit to a second store as I'd promised to pick up an A2 for friends who couldn't be there at 8am.
Very short lines at each store, and most folks were there for the laptop as reported above. At 6:25 I was third in line at the first store, and at 7:20 I seemed to be about the third picking up a ticket at the second store. The stores were similar in size, but one had a single 50" HDTV and 20 A2's, while the other store had 3 HDTV's and nine A2's; the laptop numbers were also uneven (though I forget the precise numbers).
FWIW: 'Had the option of picking up the Sanyo 50" plasma [720P] TV's for $998, but it didn't look appealing when compared to other TV's on display: I'm guessing it was their up-conversion of the store's SD feed, but it looked very grainy(*) compared to the adjacent Samsung (bottom-of-their-line) 720P LCD. Then again, the Samsung looked un-sharp, like it had its sharpness setting de-emphasized. 'Had I known I'd have the chance at the 50" model, I'd have looked around for reviews/comparisons before this a.m. [Then again, the Sanyo's an in-house brand, and how many WalMart's have a decent feed for their HD-TV's?!]. That "graininess" was present in other Sanyo's, and a few other products; and the lack of graininess was also present in several companies' displays.
(*) There must be a technical term for it, but the "grainy" I'm referring to is this: the multiple plasma (720P) pixels presenting a single SD pixel were AS A GROUP -averaging- a stable color, but within that group the INDIVIDUALLY pixel colors were -changing-! It's like there was dithering going on, but with each frame the dithering changed: each pixel within the group seemed unstable, seemed to be dancing between differing colors. This was apparent at a distance of several feet from the screen, and unsettling to my eyes. Perhaps it's their solution to avoiding "jaggies", and to avoiding the look of some HD TV's where an SD signal looks smeared (like you're watching through a screen smeared with Vaseline). Or perhaps it's an artifact of the cr*ppy/noisy store signal.