Posts Tagged ‘black friday news’
Thursday, Oct 18, at 10:29 AM
Planning on purchasing a Kindle Fire HD on Black Friday? Amazon.com has announced they will be kicking off their 2012 Black Friday Deals Week starting Monday, November 19th.
Amazon.com will have Black Friday deals all day, every day during the week, including Black Friday, of course, the day after Thanksgiving.
What kind of Black Friday deals can you expect from Amazon.com this year? You can expect deals on electronics, low prices on DVDs, toy bargains, clothing, jewelry and more, just in time for the holiday season. Like last year, we expect many consumers will be taking advantage of the Black Friday deals on Amazon.com, and deals will go quickly. So if you plan to shop at Amazon.com this year, make sure you’re at a computer with a fast internet connection and be the one of the first to snag all the deals.
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Tuesday, Oct 16, at 3:26 PM
Target has flip flopped on their holiday and Black Friday plans more in the last month than your favorite warm-weather footwear did all summer.
At the beginning of September Target announced that they were backing out of the holiday price wars and would not be playing the low price game with their competitors this year. Then, around the end of September, Target announced that they would in fact be joining Best Buy, Walmart, and pretty much every other store in America in participating in Black Friday.
Over the weekend we reported that Best Buy would be price matching online competitors in efforts to cut down on losses due to “Showrooming”. Now, according to Mashable, Target has said they will be doing the same. Showrooming is when customers go to Target to check out the products that they’re thinking of buying, but then leave the store after looking at it to go buy it online for a better price. The Target store becomes a show room for the online store. To keep this from happening, Target will be price matching select online retailers such as amazon.com, BestBuy.com, Toysrus.com, Babiesrus.com, and their own site, target.com. Just like with Best Buy’s price matching, there are a few rules.
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Saturday, Oct 13, at 10:00 AM
We talked last week about how Walmart and Best Buy were both on the same page on Black Friday hours; with stores in New Jersey applying to local townships to open on Thursday at midnight.
Now Walmart and Best Buy have something else in common; offering price matching on internet products. In addition to price matching against competitors like amazon.com, Best Buy will also be offering free home delivery on out of stock merchandise this holiday season and same-day, in-store pick-up of products purchased online.
Why is Best Buy doing this?
Best Buy suffers during the holiday season from something known as “Showrooming”. We’ve all done it. Customers come in and check out an item in person to get a feel for it, and then go home and shop online for a better price once they decide that they want it. When customers do this Best Buy becomes a “showroom” for their online-only competitors like amazon.com and buy.com.
Before you start hunting online for bargains there are a few restrictions:
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Tags: Best Buy, best buy black friday, black friday, black friday 2012, black friday news, Price Matching
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Thursday, Oct 11, at 9:41 AM
While thousands rush to get bargain basement prices on electronics, toys, and other brand name merchandise on Black Friday, Record Stores are encouraging people to avoid the commercialism of the day by stopping in to their independent stores. While stores won’t be offering huge price cuts or bargains, you can still look forward to special releases on rare and limited edition records. Record Store Day celebrates the art of music, worldwide.
Record Store Day brings together artists, musicians, and record stores, alike. Special vinyl and CD releases and various promotional products are made exclusively for the day and hundreds of artists in the United States and in various countries across the globe make special appearances and performances. Record Store Day festivities include performances, cook-outs, body painting, meet & greets with artists,
parades, djs spinning records and more. Metallica officially kicked off the first Record Store Day at Rasputin Music in San Francisco on April 19, 2008 and Record Store Day is celebrated each year on the third Saturday every April.
Starting in 2010, Record Store Day jumped on the bandwagon with large retailers, taking advantage of people’s enthusiasm for shopping on the day after Thanksgiving by introducing Record Store Black Friday. On Black Friday this year, shoppers can grab releases from Rolling Stones, My Morning Jacket, The Lumineers, Skrillex and The White Stripes.’
Some of our favorite specials from Record Store Day Black Friday 2011 include:
- The Beatles – The Singles Box Set – 7″ vinyl box set
- Crowded House – Intriguer Live: Start to Finish – Double CD/DVD
- Miles Davis – Miles Davis Quartet – 10″ vinyl
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Monday, Oct 1, at 3:41 PM
Last month Black Friday by Brad’s Deals gave you our predictions for what the top 10 hottest toys of 2012 will be. This week Walmart put out their list of the top 20 toys for this holiday season. So how did our predictions match up with Walmart’s?
What Black Friday by Brad’s Deals thinks the top 10 hottest toys for 2012 will be.
- Furby 2012: We both think that this revamped version of the cult favorite 90s toy will come out as the hottest toy for this holiday season. Currently priced at $54.00, we can’t wait to see if Walmart does a dramatic Black Friday discount on Furby 2012.
- LeapFrog LeapPad2: The LeapPad was a huge Black Friday seller in 2011 and Walmart is expecting it to be almost as popular this year. While we still think the LeapPad will be big this year, there are so many other tablets for kids (the iPad mini, Tabeo Kids Tablet, and the Nabi 2 Tablet for Kids,) that LeapFrog has some stiff competition this year.
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Thursday, Sep 27, at 4:30 PM
10/8/12 – As of this past weekend, the price on the Samsung Galaxy S3 already has dropped to $99.99 with 2-year contract with Sprint. Verizon’s offering with 2-year contract is $139 and the same deal via AT&T is currently $119.
The first Black Friday 2012 ad of the year has leaked!
Image Credit: Engadget
We know, it’s not even Halloween yet, but Sprint is already thinking forward to the holiday season. Thanks to anonymous tip given to engadget, we know that Sprint will offer the the Samsung Galaxy S III for only $49.99 on November 23, 2012. This deal will be available ONLY on Black Friday! According to the leaked ad, you will be saving $150 on the Samsung Galaxy S III at Sprint if you agree to a two-year contract. Supplies are expected to be limited, so plan to get there early to get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy S III at this incredibly low price.
The lowest price we found on the Samsung Galaxy S III is $179.99 with a 2 year contract at Best Buy, so the Sprint Black Friday 2012 promotion offers $130 in total savings from the current lowest priced deal that we found for that phone. (more…)
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Tuesday, Sep 25, at 10:38 AM
Black Friday enthusiasts and so-called journalists are buzzing about a list of Black Friday store hours that is being passed around and republished all over the internet. The problem is that despite being completely unsubstantiated, the list is being circulated as fact. We reported on the rumor a few weeks back, but never thought that so many people across the internet would fall for such an obvious fake. Cue facepalm.
How to spot a fake list of Black Friday store hours
Fake news is easy to spot if you’re using common sense.
Black Friday is big business, and there’s no way that any retailer with a marketing and public relations department worth its salt is going to release any piece of their strategy into the wild without a media blitz. Here’s why the store hours lists don’t pass the smell test:
No press releases from the retailers.
Every single move a retailer makes will be wrought in painstaking detail via press releases, complete with quotes from C-level executives and vice presidents of fancy department titles. Where are these press releases? They don’t exist. Believe me, if they did exist then we would have reported the news here immediately.
Black Friday hours have not been posted on retailers’ websites.
A second credible source of Black Friday store hours is the retailer’s website. None of the stores on the circulating list have posted their Black Friday hours on their sites.
No quotes from company representatives.
As a Black Friday news source, we jump at the chance to include quotes in our reporting. We’re not alone in this, so I’m fairly certain that if quotes existed then they would have been included in the articles. (more…)
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Wednesday, Sep 19, at 7:00 AM
The day after Thanksgiving, once a day dedicated to laying on the couch in sweatpants recovering from binge eating, has become a day of shopping chaos. How did we get here? Why do we wake up before dawn (or in 2011, stay up on Thursday night until Friday afternoon) on a day otherwise meant for resting?
Here’s a little history lesson in how we got to this point.
Shoppers waiting overnight for Best Buy to open on Black Friday
Thanksgiving Parades
We all know about Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and do you remember who makes his first appearance of the year? Santa. Early in the 20th century many Thanksgiving parades and Santa parades were hosted by department stores and were used as their first big Christmas advertising blitz. Because this was the first time Santa appears for the year it sets off the holiday spirit. An unwritten rule amongst stores developed that no one would advertise before the parades, turning the day after Thanksgiving into the start of the holiday season. This monopoly finally broke in 1939 when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving back a week earlier, allowing for a longer shopping season.
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Friday, Sep 14, at 7:00 AM
At the end of August a Forbes report came out about the newest attempt to add another date to our national calendar. #GivingTuesday (November 27th this year) is the latest addition to the most famous shopping week in America. Following Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday was developed by the non-profit 92nd Street Y community and cultural center (92Y) in conjunction with the United Nations Foundation. The #GivingTuesday website just fully launched this week and features a list of all partners ranging from corporate shopping companies like Groupon to non-profits like the American Red Cross and crowdsourcing fundraising sites like Crowdrise. Read Mashable’s post about their #GivingTuesday participation.
#GivingTuesday’s Mission Statement says it all: #GivingTuesday is a campaign to create a national day of giving at the start of the annual holiday season. It celebrates and encourages charitable activities that support nonprofit organizations.”
Not everyone behaves badly on Black Friday, for some people it’s a great bonding experience with friends or family. There are some people out there though that ruin it for everyone else. Each year we hear horror stories of stampedes at big box stores that threaten the safety of shoppers and store employees. Remember all the fights that broke out between parents trying to buy Tickle Me Elmo when it first came out? If you find yourself behaving like these people, there’s still hope! You can participate in #GivingTuesday.
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Tuesday, Jul 3, at 8:00 AM
142 days.
Black Friday 2012 is approaching faster than you think. Will you be ready?
That’s how many days you have until Black Friday 2012. It may seem like a lot of time to plan, and it’s likely the last thing on your mind while enduring record heat during Fourth of July celebrations, but let’s face it – tomorrow you’ll be watching fireworks, then it’s time for back to school shopping for the kids, and then it’s Halloween, and you’re making plans for Thanksgiving and before you know it - BAM! It’s Black Friday. Trust me, it all goes by really, really fast.
And that’s where Black Friday by BradsDeals comes in. You already know that BradsDeals.com is the first place to go for the best online deals and active coupon codes every day. But when you join us for Black Friday, you’ll also get early access to all of the best Black Friday ads, rumors, news and more. We’ve got big plans for some great new features and giveaways too, so you won’t want to miss a thing!
So when should you start planning for Black Friday? The answer is NOW! Luckily, we’ve made it easy.
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So as you head out to watch the fireworks, please stay safe, and remember there are few things more American than Black Friday!
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