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Woodbury Commons Outlet - The first of the 220 stores opens at 9 p.m. Thursday and the last at 7 a.m. Friday. As this retail version of Rolling Thunder plays out, the chief estimates Woodbury Common's 6,000-car parking lot will turn over at least six times — and that doesn't count the thousands of shoppers who've tumbled to the outlet center's free off-site parking and shuttle bus. "We've taken all the tasks and broken them down and assigned them," Kwiatkowski said. "We've developed policies on everything. We've devised checklists for everything. And I think we've got it as good as it's going to get, given the roads we have to work with." Inside the shopping center, traffic control is the responsibility of Woodbury Common, and crime control — shoplifters, credit-card scammers, purse snatchers, parking-lot sluggers — is the responsibility of Woodbury police and sheriff's deputies. Outside the shopping center, traffic c...