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hhgregg Kicking Off Black Friday On Thanksgiving
Multiregional CE, appliance and home-furnishing chain hhgregg will once again open its doors on Thanksgiving, preempting Best Buy by an hour with sales starting...
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Best Buy Preempts Black Friday Sites By Leaking Its Own Ad
Updated! The ritual and anticipation of Black Friday — the gathering of ad-laden newspapers on Thanksgiving morning to scour the circulars for the next...
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Target Releases Black Friday Ad; Will Open Thanksgiving
Cross Target off the list of much-anticipated Black Friday ads — and add it to the list of stores opening on Thanksgiving. The retailer,...
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Kohl’s Touts Samsung, LG TVs In Black Friday Ad
Kohl’s, the discount department store known more for apparel and home fashions than CE, has given tech a prominent place in its Black Friday...
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Sam’s Club Black Friday Sale Will Have A 58-Inch Vizio 4K TV For $698
Sam’s Club will kick off its Black Friday sales event online at 12:01 a.m. Thanksgiving morning (Nov. 26). Its stores, which will remain closed...
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Sears Touts Kenmore, Samsung Appliances In Black Friday Ad
Kitchen suites from Sears’ private-label Kenmore brand, and a smattering of Samsung kitchen products and laundry pairs, will represent the category in a forthcoming...
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Console Bundles Top GameStop’s Black Friday Ad
Bleary-eyed Black Friday shoppers will have a choice of 500GB Xbox One or PlayStation 4 bundles for $300 when GameStop opens its doors at 5...
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XYZ Printing Joins Barnes & Noble’s Maker Faire
Leading 3D-printer vendor XYZprinting is joining 17 other brands this weekend to co-host Barnes & Noble’s debut Mini Maker Faire event. The educational expo features...
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Black Friday Watch: Walmart.com Launching Deals Of The Day
Walmart has a target on Amazon. In another element of its billion-dollar-a-year catch-up effort, the world’s largest retailer is mounting its own version of...
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Staples Touts $300 Notebooks, $55 Fire Tablet Bundle For Black Friday
Staples will formally break its Black Friday ad on Sunday (Nov. 8), but has leaked a trio of teaser items in the meantime to...
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Meijer Spills The Beans On Its Black Friday Ad
Once upon a time, retailers’ Black Friday plans were a closely guarded secret. That’s all changed since “leaked” circulars by holiday shopping sites removed...
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Motorola’s 1st Retail Store Might Not Be Its Last
Smartphone-maker Motorola is opening up its first retail store, joining such tech companies as Apple and Microsoft in operating brick-and-mortar sales outlets. Motorola is...
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Black Friday Watch: These Stores Will Be Closed On Thanksgiving
Updated! We’ve written at length about the backlash against Thanksgiving Day store openings. Well, at least 26 retailers to date are putting their holiday...
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Black Friday Watch: Sam’s Club Sets Nov. 14 For 1st Pre-Holiday Event
Sam’s Club will kick off the holiday selling cycle on Saturday, Nov. 14, by mounting a “Lowest Prices of the Season” in-store and online...
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Home Depot Breaks Black Friday Majap Ad
The Home Depot has jump-started the holidays by releasing its first Black Friday sales ad with pricing that begins tomorrow and is good through...
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Office Depot Kicks Off Pre-Black Friday Sales This Sunday
Office Depot and its OfficeMax subset will enter the pre-holiday promotional fray this Sunday with the first of two “early Black Friday” sales. The...
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Amazon Opens Its 1st Book Store
Amazon has opened its first physical book store. The store is located at 4601 26th Ave. NE in Seattle’s University Village, just a few...
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Black Friday Watch: Sears To Open Thanksgiving Evening
In what may be a compromise between opposing Thanksgiving Day camps (to open or not to open?), Sears said it will once again delay...
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Amazon Prime Members Claim New Perk For Pre- And Post-Black Friday
Amazon pulled its Black Friday curtain back just a bit on Monday, revealing a new perk for Prime members. Prime members will now be...
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Paul’s TV Online Liquidation Set For Thursday
An online-only auction will be held this Thursday (Nov. 5) for the remaining inventory and office assets of Paul’s TV. The Los Angeles-area A/V...
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Holiday Forecast: Black Friday Gives Thanksgiving The Bird
A growing backlash against Thanksgiving Day sales is expected to help Black Friday kick holiday butt this season. According to retail traffic counter ShopperTrak,...
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Distributor Briefs
Almo Expands Small Business Saturday Event National CE and appliance distributor Almo Corp. is promising a bigger and better Small Business Saturday for its...
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Drone Wars: Walmart Has Amazon In Its Sights
Petitions FCC For Flight Testing Walmart’s efforts to catch up with Amazon have extended to drones. The world’s largest retailer by sales volume, if...
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Black Friday Watch: Adorama Leans On Loyalty Program This Holiday Season
Leading digital imaging dealer Adorama is encouraging customers to join its VIP member program in order to receive its best holiday offers. The privately...
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Black Friday Watch: Target Enters Holiday Fray With Free Shipping, Expanded Curbside Pickup
Target has weighed in on its holiday plans, which include free shipping and returns for all online orders placed this Sunday through Christmas. Target...
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Walmart Launching Holiday Assault On Sunday
Walmart will begin a two-month-long holiday blitz this Sunday that includes the first wave of seasonal discounts and a new in-store pick-up feature for...
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Amazon Adds E-Commerce Functionality To Fire TV
Users of Amazon’s Fire TV streaming media devices can now order products from the service’s home screen while they watch movies and shows. According...
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Newegg Declares ‘Black November’
Newegg, the top tech-specialty e-tailer, is bringing back its month-long series of deep discounts and special promotions next week under the banner of “Black...
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Walmart Exec Foresees Holiday ‘Anarchy’ From Credit Card Conversion
This month’s mandated switch to new chip-embedded credit cards is bound to cause chaos this holiday season, a Walmart executive has warned. Speaking at...
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A Look Inside Microsoft’s New Flagship Store
Microsoft pulled out all the stops for yesterday’s grand opening of its six-year-old retail chain’s first-ever flagship store. The 22,369-square-foot showplace occupies five floors...
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REI Won’t Open On Black Friday
Forget about the Thanksgiving backlash; REI is taking things a step further by closing its stores on Black Friday. The outdoor retailer said it...
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Microsoft Stores Ready To Party To Launch Surface Book, Surface Pro 4
More than 110 Microsoft stores in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada will celebrate the Oct. 26 launch of the Surface Book notebook and Surface Pro 4 tablet...
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Black Friday Watch: Best Buy Offering Free Holiday Shipping Starting Sunday
Best Buy is throwing down the holiday gauntlet by offering free shipping on all online orders beginning Oct. 25, and by staging special in-store...
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Amazon Extends One-Hour ‘Prime Now’ Delivery To Two More Cities
Amazon.com has added San Francisco and San Antonio to its growing list of metro areas where Prime members can receive their online orders in...
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Walmart Honors Back To The Future Day With Bacon 3D Printer
Great Scott! Yes, it’s Back to the Future Day, and some are trying to get into the spirit to honor the 30th anniversary of...
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Amazon Adds Same-Day Prime Delivery To Chicago & Orlando
Perhaps Amazon’s news will bring a little cheer to Cubs fans this morning. The e-tailer announced its Prime same-day delivery service will now be...
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Dell’s Leaked Black Friday Ad Has Vizio’s 60” 4K TV For $799
Dell is first out of the gate with a leaked Black Friday ad. Consumer deal aggregate site BlackFriday.com posted the six-page ad on Tuesday....
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Verizon Phones Getting Samsung Pay
Samsung Pay is coming to select Samsung phones on the Verizon network. Samsung’s mobile-payment technology went live on Sept. 28 in the U.S., but...
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Black Friday Pricing: Deja Vu All Over Again
Apparently the late, great Yogi Berra’s classic malaprop couldn’t be truer than on Black Friday. According to a review of doorbuster promotions over the...
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Best Buy Showcasing 4K TV In Atlanta Airport
Best Buy has taken its traveling 4K TV roadshow to the penultimate high-traffic destination: the world’s busiest airport. For the last 15 years Hartsfield-Jackson...
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Paul’s TV Is No More
Paul’s TV, the landmark L.A. video dealer, has gone under. Founded in La Habra, Calif., in 1964 by the late, self-proclaimed “King of the...
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Laptops Expected To See Deep Price Cuts On Black Friday 2015
Laptops are expected to once again receive discounts “of epic proportions” on Black Friday. Louis Ramirez of DealNews, an online aggregator of retail discounts,...