Target offers Black Friday shoppers gift cards starting at $80 and ranging to $1500 with the purchase of various models of the Apple iPad Air and Mini.
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The company is keeping a close eye on search trends, and will “triple the number of Star Wars toys, three times as many 4K TVs, 15 (times) more drones, and 350% more 3D printers and accessories compared with previous year”, based on consumer searches.
Aside from the ever-present risk of being trampled to death by shoppers, you often can become trampled by the vast amount of advertising, shopping choices and insane deals in every corner of your vision.
Expect several of your favorite retailers to push back against this Thanksgiving Day shopping tradition.
The latest defector is retailer Hennes & Mauritz.
REI is taking the pushback one step further.
Would you rather be the employee, customer or neither of the two? Stores open Thursday at 6 p.m. and stay open until midnight on Saturday.
Looking at Black Friday from the opposite spectrum, Raines said it’s a lot of fun to watch people rush and grab what they want, as they go store to store.
We see signs, however, that the media-driven Gray Thursday/Black Friday shopping event is as dated as last year’s fruitcake. Check out today’s hottest, upcoming and missed deals at the Black Friday section of their website. Somerset in Troy and Genesee Valley Center in Flint are skipping the holiday altogether. It, too, is spreading out deals to days other than Black Friday. “We heard that it was slow in the wee hours of the morning”.
Walmart typically started its cyber sales on the Monday after Thanksgiving.
But that could change, says Amanda Gielczyk, marketing manager for RiverTown, Lakeside Mall in Sterling Heights and the Crossroads Mall in Kalamazoo. In fact, some of these deals are better than the deals you’ll find over Thanksgiving weekend.
Big box retailers, for the most part, are sticking to last year’s Thanksgiving hours. Sadie Fox, an FGCU student, works for Pink Pineapple in Bell Tower Shops, which is a privately-owned boutique, so it’s not open on Black Friday. This year, for the first time, Walmart’s Cyber Monday will start on Sunday, giving shoppers even more time to dive into the biggest online sale of the year.
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Black Friday at Walmart is usually an interesting holiday but the retailer is going with a totally different approach this year, and it might have killed its Doorbuster deal. They’ll release 2,000 online-only specials at 8 p.m. Sunday, November 29, up from 500 bargains past year.
