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The heck with that pumpkin pie, electronics retailer CompUSA is opening its doors on Thanksgiving night to give holiday shoppers a head-start on Black Friday madness.
Some estimates are near a half-billion dollars.
Today is supposed to be the biggest online shopping day of the year, the equivalent of "Black Friday," the purportedly biggest brick and mortar shopping day of the year, problem is, it's not (the heaviest online shopping comes closer to Christmas).
The reports suggest that jittery consumers are flocking to rock-bottom prices and to little else — a boon for discount stores but trouble for higher-end chains.
You could almost run that old Lone Ranger theme as the soundtrack to the local news stories in Boston on Thanksgiving day featuring perky local news correspondents stirring a buying frenzy with upbeat reports on manic consumers racing into malls for "midnight madness" sales.
This time of year, the Rev. Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping has a difficult ministry. 5:45 a.m. on Black Friday -- or as he calls it, Buy Nothing Day -- found him bellowing his message into a megaphone outside the flagship Macy's store in Midtown Manhattan.
Retailers are loath to let consumers in on their super-secret plans for big sales or tip their hand as to holiday-time markdown strategies -- for "competitive reasons," they insist -- but there's plenty of information out there for navigating the year-end shopping season.
Bargain-driven shoppers stormed America's malls and shopping centers Friday, glomming onto earlier-than-ever holiday price cuts dangled by retailers hoping to reverse the effects of an economic downturn.
Today is Black Friday, the day when crazy people hit the stores looking for bargains. I don't get it. Camping out in front of a store and fighting crowds for bargains does not appeal to me at all.
Fareed Zakaria this week claimed that foreign tourists "are filled with horror stories about the inconvenience and indignity of traveling to America." Really? Maybe Zakaria should've waited to see Black Friday in New York today before making such sweeping pronouncements.
There are more TV marathons today than on Thanksgiving plus Spike is airing three of Pierce Brosnan's James Bond movies. Times ET. USA Network, Law & Order. 9am - midnight. Alternating Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit. TNT, Cold Case. 9am - midnight.
Its Friday morning at 5am in Eden Prarie Minnesota. Dozens of shoppers are lined up outside of the local Best Buy, amped to be among the first to get their hands on specials like a three hundred dollar laptop.
Before you head out into the maelstrom for that plasma TV, laptop or home theater system, a quick stop on the Web can save you a bundle!
Thousands of eager consumers countdown the precious minutes until doors open wide and reveal a heated cabin of electronic goodness.
We've trimmed the fat and cut the crap, bringing you the gaming highlights from the retail world's annual sale. If you're brave enough to venture out tomorrow, here's a run down of the best deals going.
Retailers and consumers are turning into real early birds when it comes to post-Thanksgiving shopping.
Like opening weekend box office numbers to Hollywood bean-counters, the weekend shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday is read as tea leaves for the rest of the holiday shopping season (even though these initial impressions are not as accurate as they used to be).
With the right technology – and the best Web sites – the Friday after Thanksgiving can be your day to score great deals.
With every year that goes by, the Black Friday hype machine continues to grow exponentially. It's you against the soccer mom's, and trust me...
We just received a copy of the BestBuy Black Friday ad. Some of the highlights of this ad include a Panasonic 42" 720p Plasma TV for $899.99, a Sony Laptop w/1GB of memory and a 120 HD for $399.99, and an Intel Celeron 420 Desktop w/17" LCD for $199.97.
A recently posted scan from the Sears black Friday flyer shows us two new colors coming to the Nintendo DS. A pretty pink puppy pawed portable and a gold triforce emblazoned hand held.
Thanksgiving Sale, Thanksgiving Deals, Black Friday Ads, bf ads & Black Friday Deals Hitachi 42" 720p Plasma HDTV - $599.99
What an over-rated film this is. No narrative structure worth yapping about. Its a loosely held together compilation of scenes that endlessly drag on. Are we seeing a docu-drama or a documentary or a work of fiction.
By slashing prices on flat-panel TVs, the retail giant has clobbered another sector -- this time, consumer-electronics stores.
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