Black Friday 2011: Deals You Can Get Before Thanksgiving
Black Friday is historically one of the biggest shopping days of the year, but you may not have to wait until after Turkey Day to get your hands on the savings.
Some of the largest retailers are offering deep discounts on their most popular items, from electronics to jewelry to other merchandise.
This weekend starts off the “Super Saturday” sales: these one day shopping extravaganzas will offer markdowns rivaling Black Friday prices every Saturday up until the last one of November. The four sale days are expected to boost revenue, because Black Friday shoppers often cannot get everything in just one day.
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Walmart, the largest company in the world, has an event starting Nov. 5 at 11 a.m. until 12 a.m. On sale are an XBOX 360 250GB console with Kinect at $399 plus a $50 Walmart gift card, a Nook Color marked down to $199 from $249, and a LB 47-inch LED TV for $698.
Walmart is also giving potential shoppers a sneak peak at its deals online.
Not to be outdone, Amazon.com, the world’s largest online retail store, has a wide variety of items on reduced for the series of sales. Their Black Friday Deals store has discounted cameras, video games, jewelry, clothing, movies, tools, and watches up until the actual anticipated Friday.
Popular Amazon deals are the Sony digital photo frame, the Belkin Bluetooth In-Car adaptor, and the Logitech webcam.
Toys ‘R’ Us, the largest toy-centered vendor in the U.S., has sales starting 3 p.m. Friday to midnight, and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Deals they have include: buy one, get one 50 percent off on all video games less than $20; XBOX 360 Kinect with a $50 Toys ‘R’ Us gift card; and half off the Littlest Pet Shop Rescue Tails Center Playset.
Target, second in U.S. retail sales only to Walmart, has their own variety of low-priced deals, although they usually don’t offer them before Black Friday. An Acer 11.6-inch Notebook and a Westinghouse 720p 60Hz LCD HDTV go on sale Saturday.
According to the National Retail Federation’s holiday predictions, holiday sales will increase 2.8 percent to about $466 billion.
