Reasons Not to Shop on Black Friday
“I won’t do it til Friday”.
John Walden said that the recent rise of the late November sales event, which only arrived in the United Kingdom in earnest last year, made it even more hard to predict sales for the rest of the year. While they don’t say when the stores open, 6 PM is being reported as the opening time.
Some stores like Charlotte Russe have deals ending on Friday but other like Go Calendars have deals that last all weekend. WalletHub analysts surveyed 8,000 deals from 30 of the biggest US retailers’ Black Friday ads to find out which companies offered the largest advertised discounts for each product category. If you have a lot of items on your list, divide it between you and your companions to have a higher chance of snagging great deals.
Shoppers throughout southern Colorado plan to shop online to get items they wouldn’t want to seek out in stores on Black Friday. If you see the item is available at another retailer, you may be able to use that information to negotiate a lower price on the store you are now shopping in.
There are 7-inch tablets of RCA Voyager for the price of $28.88.
McWatters says, “We have coupons for Thursday, all day Friday, Saturday, majority apply to everything but a door-buster because those are the really good deals that coupons will not apply to”. Online sales are expected to be the cause.
As the lines between physical and online retailing blur and as shoppers bounce back and forth between the two, most retailers are trying to have more harmony between their online and in-store deals.
They need, and more importantly, deserve our support, and not just on Small Business Saturday. Perhaps, Target is pretty confident that consumers would be spending more this year in a single receipt purchase so the retailer has made a decision to waived the minimum purchase requirements to take advantage of the free shipping service offering.
But while stores prepare their websites and distribution centres for unprecedented demand, consumer champions warned that shoppers should exercise caution amid the rush for bargains. The holiday shopping period is critical to retailers, accounting for about 20 percent of annual retail sales.