Are Black Friday deals really that special?
There are retail stores closed on Thanksgiving day, a reverse trend to offer services and discounts.
Many shoppers like George Werden don’t want to fight all the other shoppers anymore, and have to miss the end of their Thanksgiving dinner just to line up outside a store. There are some important key factors that you don’t want to go over your head because it can through your game off! The only retailer that will do it on Black Friday is Walmart who will match a local ad of a retailer with a cheaper item.
Cyber Monday firmly took its spot as the top online spending day in the United States, according to comScore, in the past few years. This Toshiba LED TV is on sale for $149.99 which is a savings of $280 and the regular price is $429.99 so you really are getting one of the best deals of the year, and this is exclusive to Best Buy.
Black Friday weekend revenue dropped 11 percent from $57.3 billion in 2013 to $50.9 billion in 2014.
Tesco – Tesco’s Black Friday deals will run from November 27 to 30 though there are already discounts available on a number of areas on the company’s website. On midnight of Thanksgiving Thursday, Amazon will be offering ten of its “Deals of the Day”, with up to ten more deals of the day will hit the Black Friday.
The retailer was one of the first to start its Black Friday sales a week ahead of Black Friday, with deals between November 20 and 22. In fact, this could be a great help for some stores, which might not even know which are the products that attract the majority of their customers into their stores. Many plan to offer fresh online deals on that day. Other things are at their lowest price on black Friday.
Wal-Mart and Target are advertising advanced pickup services to make the holiday shopping experience more convenient.
Another dynamic in this tug-of-war between traditionalism and modernity is that people may shop at any hour online or by phone, or wait to do it on Cyber Monday. Thanksgiving Day itself can have online deals starting in the evening or earlier. Sure, some of those sites could be legit, but major sales periods are also an ideal time to part unsuspecting shoppers from their credit card numbers.