Black Friday shoppers pack stores from Citadel Outlets to Arcadia

Southern California residents enjoyed the discounts that Black Friday brought all throughout the area. 

Shoppers are grabbing the deals this morning at the Citadel Outlets in Commerce. 

The shopping center is in the midst of its 27-hour shopping spree, with most stores opening last night, Thanksgiving, around 8 p.m. and keeping their doors open, overnight, until 11 p.m. this Black Friday. 

The Citadel Outlets offer extended hours through the weekend, with visits from Santa as well. 

Early this morning lines were long, one customer called them Disneyland lines.

Shopper Aleli Gita said it's her first Black Friday ever. "Im so happy, I even videoed some of the queue here and I told my friends it's longer than disney."

In the afternoon, CBSLA's Jeff Nguyen was in Arcadia where shoppers were getting discounts at the mall.   

"One thing nice about it is that it's making people happy," said shopper Pamela Ward on Friday. 

The lines show it -- the National Retail Federation projected an 8 percent increase in retail sales this year.