Mall Of America Decks The Halls For Black Friday

BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (WCCO) Mall of America is getting ready for the big rush of shoppers. The plan is to have all the decorations set for Black Friday.

Extra help is hired to put up all the tinsel and lights. The work started right after Halloween, and is still going on.

To give you an example of what that Mall of America is willing to do to impress, extra workers are hired simply to fluff the more than 150 holiday trees throughout the mall.

And thats just the beginning. To impress those holiday shoppers you have to go big.

In the rotunda, you cant miss the pair of holiday trees that tower more than 40 feet.

Theyre a favorite. We have guests ask for them every single year. Theyre an ideal place to take a holiday photo for families, Mall of America representative Dan Jasper said.

It takes two days just to put together the trees frames; each is then lit with 10,000 LED lights.

And then there are the LED lights throughout MOA. If you lined them up end to end, they would stretch more than 30 miles.

We dont sleep a lot in November and December, Ill tell you that, said Jasper.

To finish in time, crews work day and night for nearly a month.

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Mall Of America Decks The Halls For Black Friday