Dvorkin says primarily, two factors diminish the importance of Black Friday: the fact that deals bleed into Thanksgiving weekend and beyond, and that “door buster deals” are now available online.
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A 65-inch LG 4K Ultra HDTV for $799 plus free shipping, as well as a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 for $599 are among the products being sold during the discount shopping days. The company is also running a pre-Black Friday promotion at the moment. Staples is also offering deals all week. The best part is that for Black Friday, the stores will be opening up at midnight on Thursday, which is Thanksgiving, and that gives you a head start on your Black Friday shopping.
But retailers are catering more to those folks who start shopping before black Friday.
“Cyber Monday started many, many years ago when our customers waited to get back to work after Black Friday … because the only place that they had access to high-speed Internet was at work”, Madeira said.
The best Black Friday deals are in-store.
Kena Betancur / Stringer / Getty ImagesYou can get deals through the New Year.
They have gone shopping together on Black Friday for years.
Online shoppers will be happy to know there are other deals that apply only online, meaning more excuses to stay home, eat Thanksgiving leftovers and check off that holiday list from the comfort of your living room.
Dillard’s store manager David Pursley confirms they offer the same sales on their website. More details on the Evening Edition deals will be given at a later date. This isn’t entirely new for Walmart – it’s offered a few pre-Cyber Monday deals before, though it’s never gone all-out like this.
“Target.com, which we try to drive our guests to, if we don’t have it in the store, and you can get just about anything you can right there”.
However with online deals starting early this year those lines may not be very long.
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“Thanksgiving is becoming more of a lucrative time to shop, especially for those big ticket items like TVs and other consumer electronics to draw people in”, she said.
