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Retailers counting on Thanksgiving, Black Friday sales in stores and online

Pre-Black Friday sales are closing as Thanksgiving nears and retailers such as Wal-Mart hope to entice shoppers by turning Cyber Monday into Cyber Sunday, so shoppers can take advantage of its deals, a day earlier. In recent years, Vincent said he’s noticed a national trend of stores opening earlier and earlier for Black Friday.

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Most banks are closed as well, though there are a number that will offer advanced ATM options that include check and cash depositing. Pull out your smart phone and buy those great online deals while you wait to make your brick and mortar store purchases. As Brad Tuttle details on Money.com, Black Friday deals have been migrating from Friday morning and Thursday evening in stores to online and/or in stores for the entire month of November.

Target: previous year, the store unveiled their Black Friday deals online at around 3 a.m. EST early Thursday.

So for me, I’m going to let my fingers deal with shopping and avoid the crowds. Just outside the town centre Tesco will also be offering Black Friday deals, with the supermarket offering discounts on some products from 5am.

Area retailers such as those mentioned above as well as Kmart, Sears, Kohl’s, JC Penny and others are opening Thanksgiving afternoon. Interviews with several major retail CEOs are also on tap, and we’ll be giving retailers such as Walmart, Target, Best Buy and Macy’s grades for their overall Black Friday efforts.

Thanksgiving Day sales are a new tradition that, no doubt, we need to put to a halt.

“Now, we’re at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day”, Vincent said. “We have over 400 doorbuster items and that will last until 1 p.m. Friday”. “So really it’s been about the same”.

The term is historically known in the American retail industry as the day on which business began to turn a profit (in the black) after having operated at a loss (in the red) since January. Extreme couponist Rani states that Black Friday is “good times spent with good friends”. Thanksgiving is about being home with family.

Superdrug – Superdrug’s Black Friday deals started on November 25.

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Asda became the first store to shun the event when it announced plans to spread its price cuts over the festive period rather than unleash a one-day bargain bonanza, after shoppers complained about fatigue. So what’s wrong in knowing about coupons and deals available throughout the year and saving while you shop?

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