Brad

A couple years ago we created a GottaDEAL server on Discord for us to chat about Black Friday, deals or whatever else comes up. Here's the invite link: https://discord.gg/3hd2K5t For those who are unfamiliar with Discord, it is a free text and voice chat service. You can access it via their dedicated apps for phones or tablets, or through a traditional web browser. Once you sign up for an account you can join the GD server using the special invite link above and can chat with everyone else who has signed up. One advantage of using Discord over the old forum chat function is that you can view past conversation in the channels and not just what is happening while you are there so can come and go as frequently as you want without missing anything. Currently there is a #general channel for more off-topic chat and a #blackfriday channel for discussing Black Friday. There's also a #contest channel that we'll use for some giveaways over the next few months and a #deals channel where we'll be posting some of the hottest deals, in-stock alerts for hot items, preorder opportunities and more. We have over 1,000 members so far and we're hoping to do even more with it this year, so sign up if you haven't and we'll see you there!

Here are the dates (according to our records) when various ads were posted during the past 15 years: https://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/Dates And here are links to text lists of the items in the ads (at least the ones in our database) dating back to 2003: 2003 - 2004 - 2005 - 2006 - 2007 - 2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 2011 2012 - 2013 - 2014 - 2015 - 2016 - 2017 - 2018 - 2019 - 2020 - 2021 And don't forget, you can also browse over 1,200 historical Black Friday ads going back to 2004 at: https://www.blackfridayarchive.com

New article: The shipping crisis is getting worse. Here's what that means for holiday shopping https://www.cnn.com/2021/08/23/business/global-supply-chains-christmas-shipping/index.html

https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2021/08/Top-Toy-Ready-Target-Announces-Most-Exclusives-Eve

100 days. Yikes!

Target CEO Brian Cornell quells fears about out of stocks this holiday season https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/18/target-ceo-brian-cornell-retailer-has-enough-inventory-for-holidays.html

40% code: H289U9EQAS4VN

30% code, can be used 10 times: CBF82LNMEAPWN

More effects: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/03/shipping-crisis-strikes-black-friday-shopping-amid-europe-china-floods.html

Still steady at 45 members

4 months to go

Have some extra 30% codes for today. PM me if you need one. No 40% for me this time.

Once again we didn't lose anyone so we're holding at 45 members. Happy July

Wrap-up press release: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/prime-day-delivered-two-biggest-days-ever-small-medium-sized Doesn't sound like it was as big of a success as previous summer Prime Days. Usually the July Prime Day sales have surpassed the previous year's BF/CM sales but they don't mention anything like that this year, maybe because last year's BF/CM were so huge because of Covid.

I have a spreadsheet with well over 200,000 PD "deals". If anyone has a very specific request, feel free to PM me and if I find something I'll reply. If you don't hear from me, then there's nothing matching your request in that spreadsheet (doesn't mean there won't be other deals - this is just a portion of the deals). Have to do it via PM so I don't share any details publicly.

Combined all the threads into this one. Feel free to post if you learn about other stores that have made similar announcements.

Kohl's will be closed on Thanksgiving Day https://corporate.kohls.com/content/kohlscorp/en/news/archive-/2021/june/kohl-s-to-close-stores-on-thanksgiving-day-2021.html That’s pretty much all of the bigger stores.

Best Buy will be closed on Thanksgiving Day https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/09/business/best-buy-thanksgiving-closed-2021/index.html

Amazon started the "spend $10 from small businesses & get $10 credit to use on Prime Day" promo today: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=17879387011

I just hope the actual BF sales are full sales this year and not the final 30% of items from previous November “BF” sales.

Walmart will be closed on Thanksgiving Day https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2021/06/04/walmart-to-close-all-u-s-store-locations-for-thanksgiving-day https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/shopping/2021/06/04/thanksgiving-2021-walmart-close-all-us-stores-holiday/7546628002/

Press release: https://press.aboutamazon.com/news-releases/news-release-details/prime-day-arrives-june-21-22-two-days-epic-savings-more-2

We didn't lose anyone in May. Still at 45 members

Halfway to Black Friday! Black Friday is exactly 6 months from today. Start the hype lol

Expect an official announcement of the date in about a week. Expect the sale to start a few weeks after that....