“The benefit of Black Friday shopping, if there is such a thing, is does Black Friday motivate sales over and above what would have occurred anyway for Christmas and being transacted by people from more than 50 miles away”. Get the deals right in your room, without having to waste time going to the physical stores.
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For anyone who’d rather be out shopping than watching football or hitting the bars on Thanksgiving evening, numerous retailers will be open to accommodate them. The Amazon Black Friday 2015 deals are the best in lots of categories, but are not existant for Apple products.
This holiday season, Regency Mall welcomes a brand-new, major anchor store: Dunham’s Sports, which opened Friday in the former Sears store. In an environment when Black Friday deals are being offered earlier and earlier, even on Thanksgiving Day, RadioShack will offer in-store Black Friday promotions on Wednesday, the day BEFORE Thanksgiving.
Alternatively, there are stores that are open on 6 p.m. on Thursday and close at midnight.
Amazon starts Black Friday sale eight days earlier and will start releasing new deals every five minutes starting November 20.
The survey, conducted November 2-4 by ORC worldwide, indicated 15 percent of people planned to shop for the holidays on Thanksgiving Day, 41 percent on Black Friday and 30 percent on Saturday and/or Sunday that weekend.
While numerous big box retail stores plan to open on Thanksgiving Day, the outdoor company REI is taking the opposite approach.
Even so, in a “genius” move this year, savvy retailers have come up with a way to drive traffic on Black Friday and quite possibly capture additional business, Wilson said.
That will change this week, retail experts told The News, as a growing number of chains are choosing to stay closed on Thanksgiving and save their biggest doorbuster deals for the wee hours of Friday morning.
Macy’s- this shopping mall will kick off the holiday shopping season by opening on Thanksgiving 6 p.m. The store had already offered a preview of a few of its Black Friday deals and will unveil more deals online starting Nov 16.
T.J. Martin, owner of T.J.’s Fine Jewelry in Carbondale, said his store is closed on Thanksgiving, because it’s a time for employees to be with their families. In short: If you’re shopping for diamonds you might want to reconsider your aversion to e-commerce on Thanksgiving Day.
Hannah Marxen, senior in human development and family studies, said she participates in Black Friday shopping with her sister. Combine this with the ability to look at most of the Black Friday 2015 ads and many shoppers should start looking now.
“Shopping online offers just as much value as going into the store”, he said.
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As for the Black Friday “creep”, Vickers is not happy that it is overlapping with Thanksgiving.
