Brad

Kohl's ad has been out since last week. Walmart's first 2 ads are out. 3rd ad will likely be this weekend, probably Sunday night unless someone leaks it sooner. Target will be next Wednesday night at the latest, could have a leak sooner as we did last year. Best Buy might not post anything in advance before their sale starts on the 19th. Best chance for an advance ad would be tomorrow night but don't get your hopes up.

PetSmart and Academy Sports? lol

Shop: https://www.academy.com Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/AcademySports

Shop: https://www.petsmart.com Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/PetSmart

Shop: https://www.northerntool.com Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/NorthernTool

If anyone is a member of all those various walmart/target facebook groups, keep an eye on them this week in case we get more old school newspaper ad leaks. And if it does, PM me immediately so we can get it posted

I have a few shirts left, mostly XL but a few other sizes available. If anyone wants to buy some, they are $10 or $9 each if you buy more than one. Free shipping. With the postal service there is no guarantee they'll arrive by Thanksgiving. Send me a message on here if interested. Any remaining shirts will be saved for the next "leftover merch" giveaway in a few years

Sale extended until the 10th. Next 30% for cardholders starts the 11th.

Shop: https://www.acehardware.com Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/AceHardware

Based on last year this should be an active week as far as new ads.

Anyone looking forward to the Buy 2, Get 1 Free offer? Starts later tonight.

Thanks to everyone who helped with this. Come back next year to try and win your hoodie

Thanks everyone for your help. I tallied everything up and there is an legit tie between Charcoal and Navy (both in the number of people who have them as their first choice AND as either of their first 2 choices) so I'll have to be the tie breaker. Guess you'll find out what I picked next year

Shirts were picked up about an hour ago. I have to see how many of each size I have left (after my family took a bunch lol) and if there's time to give away a few more, we'll do that this week.

Reminder: The Kohl's Cash offer drops to $10 at midnight CT tonight.

Shirts were delivered yesterday, they are now all packaged and labeled and will be picked up by the post office tomorrow. Then it's out of my hands and you're at the mercy of the United States Postal Service Worst case scenario they arrive after BF but since there's no date on them, they can be used any year

Exactly. At the very least, this transition served to end the practice of major stores being open on Thanksgiving Day which the majority here agree is a good thing. Another thing that has changed is free shipping. We used to see a lot of big retailers (Best Buy, Target, etc.) with free shipping on all orders this time of year. But now with store pickup and curbside delivery being used much more widely, stores tend to push that as an option for those who don't want to pay for shipping. Kohl's for example used to have free shipping on $25 or $50 this time of year but they haven't budged from their $75 minimum in years. With shipping and freight costs much higher, they can't make a profit shipping a $7 item for free. Once supply chains and the pandemic are more under control, which could happen as soon as BF 2022, I think retailers will want to have their cake and eat it too. They'll still have big sales all November like they do now but they'll want to reclaim that huge spike of in-store sales revenue that Black Friday would always bring them, so they'll hopefully give shoppers a reason to show up bright and early on Friday morning. While online sales have skyrocketed, they are still a small piece of the pie compared to in-store sales.

COVID allowed retailers to extend the holiday shopping season from a month (BF to Christmas) to nearly 2 months long and to extend Black Friday from one or two days to anywhere from a week to an entire month. They won't want to give that back. For many years stores would advertise "early Black Friday sales" in early November but they were never anything exciting and we never even bothered posting 95% of them on the site because they'd just be using the term "Black Friday" to trick people into thinking the deals were good. But last year they were able to say "hey, these early sales are legit now - they are our actual BF sale split up over multiple weeks" and it has made these early sales much more interesting for us to follow as there way more actual deals in them than there used to be. I think the best we can hope for is that these various sales continue throughout November but they save some big doorbusters for Black Friday to get people in the stores again once supply chains catch up and COVID (hopefully) becomes less of a concern. And remember - you can still treat BF as the way it used to be - many stores are opening up at 5am - you can still shop all day and night if you want. You just won't have to because the deals will have been available previously in store and online.

Shop: https://www.gottadeal.com/goto.php?https://deals.dell.com/en-us/work/ Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/DellBusiness

Already 50 members in less than 5 days. We had 60 start out last year.

Despite being called "The Big One" they still are too small in my opinion. But I'm tall.

Shop: https://www.officedepot.com/cm/marketing/blackfriday Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/OfficeDepot

Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/BigLots

Shop: https://www.kohls.com Scans: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Kohls Final 7 pages are doorbusters good Thursday and Friday only.

Someone forgot to actually publish the ad scan lol. Waiting....