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Retailers are hoping your Black Friday experience won't be as unruly as last year.

You might remember the store worker who was trampled to death during a stampede at a Long Island, N.Y., Walmart.

For the first time, Walmart, citing safety as a factor, will be open on Thanksgiving through Friday.

The doorbuster sales will still start at 5 a.m. But staying open longer will allow Walmart to avoid long lines of shoppers waiting outside the door, Walmart spokesman spokesman David Tovar told the Associated Press.

"There's a great psychological pressure that happens around waiting for a door to open," Paula Rosenblum, managing partner at Retail Systems Research LLC, told the AP. "I've never felt doorbusters were good for the industry. Nobody makes a lot of money on them. All they do is create a lot of frenzy."

The AP says more of you will be shopping on Black Friday. The article cites a survey that shows 16 percent of consumers expect to begin their holiday shopping then, up from 10 percent in 2008.

Will you also be partaking in the Black Friday festivities? Why or why not?