No doubt that most stores will open incredibly early for Black Friday, and even some will open on Thanksgiving day, but it’s still a good idea to know when a store will open so that you don’t come at the wrong time.
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CEO Fernando Madeira also said the company’s “quadrupling the number of Cyber Monday specials”.
Stretching Cyber Monday sales into Sunday and the rest of the weekend is also in line with the current industry trend.
Walmart, one of the biggest stores participating in the Black Friday sale, is opening as early as November 26, Thanksgiving Day, at 6 p.m, in-store, but the Black Friday sale will be happening all-day online on Thanksgiving Day. Think again: Cyber Monday is coming right after the holiday weekend, and Amazon is ready for action.
His reasoning is this: The majority of shoppers are millennials, and millennials want simplification. Walmart is said to offer deals on several of the hottest categories. Sounds like a great deal to us! Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, offering you the chance to score some of the best deals of the year on everything from toys and clothes to smartphones and laptops. Write down which items you want and where to get it. “We put our Christmas savings away, checked it in the paper, checked it against the other stores, and then headed here”, Davis said.
Before you can become a Black Friday shopper, you have to first find a parking space.
“You’ll see two weeks of promotional fun for our customers”, Barry said.
Best Buy, on the other hand, will start its Black Friday sale an hour earlier than Walmart. On Cyber Monday, though, it will include a “free EA sports game” as well as a free 3-month Xbox Live subscription.
Holiday spending is projected to jump 3.7 percent this year to $630.5 billion, a gain that would be above the 10-year average in holiday sales growth of 2.5 percent, according to the National Retail Federation.
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Wal-Mart had a handful of “teaser” deals on Sunday a year ago but this is the first time it will offer all of its Cyber Monday promotions the day before.
