Amazon launching Black Friday deals a week ahead of schedule

In an announcement by Amazon, the company has revealed that come this Friday, the 20th of November, they will be kicking off their Black Friday sales which as you can tell by the dates, is a good week early than most other retailers. Those who have an Amazon Prime membership will be able to take advantage from this deals ahead of regular shoppers, as they will get access to them 30 minutes earlier.

Amazon is not the first to announce Black Friday deals throughout November.

Starting on midnight of Thanksgiving Thursday, the aforementioned company will be offering ten of its “Deals of the Day” promotion, with up to ten more Deals of the Day arriving on the Black Friday.

The retailer will also have a rolling series of “lightning deals” available for limited amounts of time during the eight-day period.

So customers can catch a specific product when it goes on sale, Amazon is introducing a new “Watch A Deal” service. The specific deals to be available on November 27, the day of Black Friday have not been released either.

In addition, the retailer will also be heavily pushing mobile and same-day delivery this season with a lineup of deals that can only be found via its mobile application, and support for two-hour delivery on select “Deals of the Day”.

TVs – In the market for a new TV this year? The company says that its total holiday sales from its shopping app doubled in the US, and Black Friday had the most rapid growth in mobile shopping.

Walmart is hitting back at the Amazon bargain tablet attack with a new generation of Android 5.0 tablets.

Traditionally, the Friday after Thanksgiving is the official start of the holiday shopping season.

Amazon, in what looks like targeting mobile users, will have special app-only deals over the Black Friday weekend.

Well, that’s one way to boost mobile app installs, we suppose.

Amazon announced that it will offer big discounts in various products, particularly electronics. The new product is now the best-selling product on Amazon since its introduction, according to USA Today.