Christmas shopping

RIVERDALE -- It's not just Christmas Eve when Santa Claus has to work around the clock.

That was pretty evident Saturday when the jolly man made a 6 a.m. appearance, touching down in a helicopter in the parking lot of the Riverdale Walmart.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- As the holidays approach, shoppers and merchants alike can expect crowded parking lots, long checkout lines, and frayed tempers. One thing most people aren't expecting to run across is counterfeit currency.

But according to the U.S. Secret Service, counterfeiting cases tend to rise around the holidays. And the increase may be even more pronounced this year amid the down economy.

RIVERDALE -- The entrepreneurial spirit was alive and well Thursday night, well before the traditional start of Black Friday.

Those who were some of the first in line at the Riverdale Target store just after they ate their Thanksgiving meal reported that the wait was pleasant and their shopping experience enjoyable.

ATLANTA -- An East Coast snowstorm put a damper on after-Christmas shopping Sunday. But shoppers across the rest of the country searched clearance racks and spent gift cards in the afterglow of the best holiday season for retailers since 2007.

As we all know, Christmas can be a wonderful time of giving and receiving. Gifts come in many shapes, sizes, forms and colors.

The best part of a gift is never knowing what's coming. Some gifts we can't wait to receive; others, we simply want to forget that they were ever given to us.

Some Top of Utah teens talk about their holiday gift-giving traditions.