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Let’s Talk Turkey: To Open Or Not To Open
That is the question. Despite a boisterous backlash from some consumers, and a growing list of retailers that are taking the day off, a...
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Kmart Remains The King Of Thanksgiving Store Hours
Updated! Despite the hubbub around Thanksgiving Day store openings, Kmart, for more than two decades now, has traditionally skipped the turkey and went straight for...
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hhgregg Touting TVs And Appliances For Black Friday
Multiregional retailer hhgregg is using equal parts TV and major appliances for its Thanksgiving and Black Friday sales events. Turkey Day promotions will run...
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Sears Goes Heavy On Major Appliances In Its Black Friday Ad
Cross it off the list: Sears has released its Thanksgiving and Black Friday ad. The chain, which had already shared the news it would...
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TVs Top Walmart’s Black Friday Sale
Updated! The other shoe — and most impactful Black Friday ad — has dropped. Three days after Best Buy revealed its Thanksgiving weekend plans, No....
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Amazon Tips Hand On Three Black Friday Tech Deals
Amazon disclosed a trio of Black Friday week discounts involving its proprietary Kindle and Fire devices. Beginning Sunday, Nov. 22, its Kindle e-reader will...
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Shopko Shares Black Friday Plans
Updated! Multiregional discount chain Shopko has pre-released its Thanksgiving/Black Friday sales circular, and the 57-page, TV-centric book is chock-a-block full of CE deals. The...
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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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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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No Turkey For You: 40% Of Thanksgiving Shoppers Will Hit The Stores
Consumers are ready to spend, spend, spend this Black Friday and holiday season, and phooey to those who complain about working on Thanksgiving, a...
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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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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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Tech Will Rule The Holidays Online: Adobe
Cyber Monday To Hit A Record $3 Billion In Online Sales Consumer electronics will be the overwhelmingly predominant product category purchased online this holiday...
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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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Black Friday Pricing: Top 25 Tech Predictions
With a record 50,000 advertised deals expected this Black Friday, and the largest-ever pre-holiday release of new smartphones, tablets, streaming-media players and other in-demand...
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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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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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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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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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Holiday 2015: 47% Of Shoppers Think Stores Should Close Thanksgiving; Most To Make Walmart 1st Black Friday Stop
A clear majority of consumers believe stores should remain closed on Thanksgiving Day according to a just-completed holiday poll, reflecting a backlash from some quarters. The...
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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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Shoppers Sound The Death Knell For Black Friday
Early promotions dissipate impact Years of holiday creep may have finally taken their toll on Black Friday. According to a consumer poll commissioned by...
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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,...
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Thanksgiving Backlash Continues As GameStop Sticks To Black Friday
The backlash against Thanksgiving Day sales events continues. Just days after Staples announced it would remain closed on the national holiday, GameStop also reportedly...
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Top 10 Things You Need To Know About Black Friday & Holiday 2015
A survey of over 2,000 consumers and 230 retailers and vendors by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) revealed 10 leading trends that can help you compete this...
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Black Friday Backlash: Staples To Stay Shut On Thanksgiving
Staples is bringing the Friday back to Black Friday. Despite the growing trend of Thanksgiving openings, the office-supply retailer said in a statement it...
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Top 10 Black Friday 2015 Predictions
Consumer site BestBlackFriday.com is back with its top predictions for the biggest sales day of the year. Cofounder Phil Dengler told us his forecasts are...
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Reflections On Black Friday And Beyond
Another Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, and what have we learned from the experience? Well, according to a video on...
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CE, M-Commerce Were Holiday Weekend Winners
New York — CE once again proved itself a Thanksgiving weekend favorite, while a sharply higher number of consumers used their mobile devices to shop. But...
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Amazon Cites BF Wins On Kindle, Fire Devices
Seattle — Amazon reported that its Black Friday online sales of Kindle e-readers and Fire tablets grew significantly year over year, and it announced...
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Consumers To Break Holiday Shopping Records: CEA
ARLINGTON, VA. — A record-breaking 103.3 million Americans will shop online between Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday this year, up by 6.1 million shoppers over...