Minnesota shoppers jammed stores this month, mostly found what they wanted

With just a few days left before Christmas, David Ayers-Moran of Minneapolis bounded into the Patina gift shop in Golden Valley and started looking for gifts for his mother.

"I was in college doing finals, so I didn't have time," said Ayers-Moran, who picked up an oven mitt and hand towel. "My parents didn't want me to shop any earlier."

In what's expected to be a record-shattering year for retail sales, supply chain issues pushed many consumers to do their buying earlier this Christmas shopping season. But even the emergence of a new coronavirus variant didn't stop crowds of shoppers from packing into stores this week in the final days before the holiday.

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