Daily Mail, UK - On the eve of Black Friday, thousands of people across the US have taken to the streets to queue up for the annual chance to bag themselves a bargain.
Some shoppers who want a deal, but don't fancy campaign out, are paying people $22 an hour to queue up for them and snare Black Friday deals.
'Every year hundreds of taskers are hired to wait in line for Black Friday deals,' said Aaron Gannon, a spokesman for San Francisco's TaskRabbit, which helps customers hire people for tasks told SFGate.
Customers line up outside a Kmart store on Thanksgiving in Chicago. Kmart stores opened at 6 a.m. to kick off doorbuster savings +8
'You certainly won't see (TaskRabbit) waiting at Walmart,' said Rakesh Agrawal, CEO of Redesign Mobile, a San Francisco app company.
'But paying someone to wait at Best Buy makes sense, because you might save several hundred dollars on a TV, for instance. The TaskRabbit would cost a fraction of that.'
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