Valentine said “this year you will be able to start purchasing at 3:01 am Thursday morning, you can purchase any of that through the entire day, so as you are preparing your Thanksgiving meal, you can do your shopping on your app”. We are huge supporters of online shopping and have been saying for several years saying most of the deals are online.
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“It is, but it’s not as hectic, I think, as it is for some of the big box stores, so people aren’t like waiting outside at 5 a.m., but there is a steady flow of customers”.
Macy’s will launch the holiday shopping season by opening on Thanksgiving Day at 6 p.m. and it’s already offered a small preview of some of its Black Friday deals. Just make sure the bribe is smaller than how much you will save.
McWatters says, “We have coupons for Thursday, all day Friday, Saturday, a lot of them apply to everything but a door-buster because those are the really good deals that coupons will not apply to”.
Bowman said the bottom line for shoppers is they can take their time.
Bowman said we are seeing an extension of Black Friday prices. On its Black Friday sales, Target will be offering free shipping without minimum purchase requirements, noteworthy doorbusters, online specials and more savings!
It claimed shopper fatigue had set in around flash sales on big-ticket, non-essential items at Christmas. But unlike Best Buy, the nationwide retailer will be open all night until Friday.
Target will also be offering some hundreds of doorbuster deals and 1000’s of combo deals for Black Friday consumers.
Citadel Mall’s Belk Store Manager, Susan McWatters, says, “They actually have their Thanksgiving books in their hands now, they arrived late last week”.
A marketing professor weighed in on where Black Friday stands.
Another great time for shopping is right before the stores close, but in this case, you should know exactly what you want before you get there, otherwise the store might close before you manage to get to the cash register with the products you’d like to buy.
“While consumers are certainly interested in shopping online, 90 percent of the business this holiday season is going be done in traditional stores”, Cornell explained. “But there are many other things in the store”.
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It is thought the move will relieve some of the strain on its website and also ensure the best deals go to customers.
