As always, shopping experts are advising customers to have a retail strategy before heading out to shop or even go online.
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“We are closed on Sundays during the regular years because of that”, he said. “It’s been growing by leaps and bounds”. The difference is that this year there are two of the hottest Amazon Black Friday deals only available through the Amazon App. There will be more than 150 Lightning Deals on everything from electronics to kitchen gadgets only available through the Amazon Mobile Shopping App available on Android, iOS, and Fire OS. A great deal on last year’s TV isn’t necessarily a great deal.
Amazon releases new daily deals shortly after midnight Pacific.
“Definitely go out on Black Friday”, said Lisa Decker.
Of those who plan to shop next weekend, 73.5 percent said they plan to hit stores or check out online deals on Black Friday, and 22.3 percent plan to scour Thanksgiving Day deals.
“It’s Black November now”, he said.
But retailers aren’t hedging all of their bets on online shopping alone. Mobile is going to play a much more significant role.
“The only thing better would be to buy a drone on Amazon and have an Amazon drone deliver your drone on Black Friday at Starbucks while sipping a latte in a generic holiday cup”, he said.
He said the holiday shopping season is even more important to retailers here in Southwest Florida.
“Walmart is also offering deals on tires and wireless phones, maps of all the deals in its stores and wristbands for certain high-demand products such as a 55” smart HDTV and an RCA Tablet. If you have your eye on clothing, shoes, beauty products, toys or travel, for example, Cyber Monday could be your best bet, according to DealNews’ analysis of last year’s deals.
DAY 4 (Wednesday): Buy 1, get 1 FREE of frozen pizzas. “They are also expecting to have ease of return”. Before you set out to wade through crowded store aisles, you need a game plan. If you are looking for computers, then it’s better to check in online store. “If they’re shopping, providing they’re not creating a problem, we don’t look at it as an issue at all”. That’s one reason retailers are happy to offer free shipping to their stores, a gamble that depends on consumers picking out a few more items on the way to get their purchase. “So instead of Black Friday, shop on Thanksgiving Day”.
Happy Thanksgiving – may yours be filled with special family moments!
And while she is not able to offer the same kinds of discounts as the big-box stores, she does usually have a gift for her customers on Friday. Sporting goods chain REI announced it would close its stores Friday to encourage people to enjoy the outdoors.
Gayton said her business will not be open Thursday, but it will open a little early Friday. “Now, we’re at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day”, Vincent said.
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Never mind that 65 percent of shoppers 25 to 34 said they had already started their holiday shopping by early November. Of course, we all know that means it’s time for the madness that is Black Friday to commence.
