Many US holiday shoppers, wary of going into stores during the latest surge of the COVID-19 pandemic, went from their computers, phones or other devices to their cars on the Saturday before Christmas to make last-minute gift purchases and then drive to the store to pick them up.

Super Saturday is traditionally the busiest day of the year for holiday purchases, and this year online retail has been extra busy, and high-priority vaccine shipments have many Americans fretting that deliveries could be delayed this week.

“The lines have gone from waiting to get inside the store to waiting to get your product brought outside the store,” said Marshal Cohen, chief retail industry adviser at market research firm NPD Group. “That’s what you’ll see as the day goes on.”

US retailers are expected to ring in record sales, with over 150 million American shoppers slated to buy holiday gifts Saturday online or in-store, up by more than 2 million from last year, the National Retail Federation said on Thursday.

As some states enforce stricter mandates and coronavirus cases spike, most last-minute holiday shoppers will go online, the trade group said.

However, stores were by no means empty at places such as Walmart and Target Saturday morning in Miami, NPD’s Cohen said. Masked shoppers who ventured outside were efficient in making their purchases of groceries and hot products, like TVs.