New Jersey residents can extend their Black Friday shopping sprees to the Internet, where Web sites offer sales and deals in honor of the post-Thanksgiving shopping tradition.

Sites like Shopzilla.com and New Jersey-based eCoupons.com feature special prices for popular items and useful search engines to find gifts for loved ones.

Other Web sites, like New Jersey?s own MyRegistry.com, allow people to set up wish lists, which aid shoppers in spending their money wisely and purchasing items their loved ones will appreciate and use. The site also features a cost comparison engine, which shows products at the best price possible.

Though some deals surface on Black Friday or the days after, many Web sites begin offering discounts and bargains on Thanksgiving.

For an interview with the president of MyRegistry.com shopping comparison site, go to iO Extra on Channel 612.