Americans visited malls this weekend saying they wanted to do Christmas shopping before potential lockdown restrictions are implemented or to avoid Black Friday crowds, as the spreading coronavirus looms over the holiday season.

Tiffany Lambert and her 15-year-old son hunted for an Xbox Series X, a new hard-to-find videogame console, inside the Best Buy Co. store at Crossgates Mall in Albany, N.Y., on Saturday.

“It’s…

This post first appeared on wsj.com

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