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Flat-screen TVs, Blu-ray players top gift list

LORAIN â€" Big or small, pricey or cheap, most everyone has a different idea of what makes the perfect gift, but this year, electronics are high on Santa's list.
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Flat-screen TVs, Blu-ray players top gift list Morning Journal: Serving Lorain, Erie, Huron and western Cuyahoga counties document.write('.tabber{display:none;}'); RSS | Contact Us | Submit Announcements | Place A Classified Ad | Subscribe | Advertise With Us AllAroundCleveland Network: Select a site The Morning Journal The News-Herald AllAroundCleveland.com Serving Northern Ohio Monday, December 01, 2008 Home | News Erie & Huron Business Gas Buddy Lottery | Sports OhioPrepZone | Obituaries Funeral Homes | Opinion | Entertainment TV Listings Dining & Entertainment Guide Fun & Games | Living Announcements Neighborhood News Religion | Blogs Jobs | Homes | Autos | Classifieds | Marketplace SEARCH The Web The Morning Journal News Flat-screen TVs, Blu-ray players top gift list Story Tools Email to a friend Print version No comments posted. Share Subscribe RSS Feeds jQuery(document).ready(function($) {$('a[rel*=facebox]').facebox()}) Click to enlarge Josh Orr, center, shops for a new flat-screen TV with his daughter Cassidy, 7, left, and son, Joshua, 5, at Super Kmart, yesterday in Lorain. MORNING JOURNAL/WAYNE THOMAS Sunday, November 30, 2008 1:53 AM EST By ALAN INGRAM and CARRIE SCHERACH news@MorningJournal.com LORAIN — Big or small, pricey or cheap, most everyone has a different idea of what makes the perfect gift, but this year, electronics are high on Santa's list.Dan Monahan, the store director at the Super Kmart on Leavitt Road, said this year's hot items will be electronic games, electronics, Wiis, Xboxes and large screen televisions.Customers won't have a hard time finding those products, he added.Other hot items this holiday season could include Blu-ray players and movies, flat-panel televisions, digital television converter boxes or smaller screen digital televisions, MP3 players or iPods, entertainment software such as games, music and movies, notebook computers, GPS devices, digital cameras and camcorders particularly digital SLR cameras and hard drive camcorders, gift cards, iPhones and other multimedia mobile phones, according to Best Buy's Web site. Jim Doran of Avon, set out to Wal-Mart and Best Buy at 9 a.m. on Black Friday in hopes of purchasing one of this year's hot items, Madden '09 for Xbox 360. Doran was disappointed to find the item was already sold out."I just didn't get there

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