Brad

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/Kohls PDF:http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-Kohls-BF2017.pdf

I heard 5pm for store opening time...

Our Twitter (@GottaDEAL or @BlackFridayNews) is a good place to be notified right away about pretty much every new ad within minutes of it going on the site. With the emails, we don't want to bombard you with so many, especially when things get busier. So unless it's a bigger ad (which we'll email about right away), we tend to wait a bit until we have a few that we can then email about. - Another option if you have a forum account is to "Follow" the Posted Black Friday Ads forum. Go here: http://forums.gottadeal.com/forum/117-posted-black-friday-ads/ and click the "Follow this forum" button in the upper right part of the page. You can then choose to be notified instantly when I post a new thread in that particular forum, which means a new ad has been posted. Then go to your Notifications control panel: http://forums.gottadeal.com/index.php?app=core&module=usercp&tab=core&area=notifications and set the various options for getting notified of new posts or just new threads, as well as if you want those notifications emailed and/or just shown when you are on the forum.

Some that I remember from typing up the ads all these years: Toys R Us almost always has the Fisher-Price Doctor's Kit and Sears for the longest time always had the Craftsman clock made to look like a circular saw blade.

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/CostcoHolidayGiftGuide If you plan on shopping on Costco.com this year for some higher-dollar items, you can buy a $25 off $250 coupon on eBay for a dollar or two.

On the site (http://www.sears.com/wishbook) you have to hover over items. It's really not that convenient. They are making a printed book with (I assume) the prices printed so once that is out we can post that instead.

This was a popular contest a couple of years so we'll bring it back. And with more people on the forum let's increase the prize pool to 15 shirts! How to enter: reply to this thread and post a one more more recipes for your favorite holiday foods. Whether it's Christmas cookies, stuffing for Thanksgiving or anything else you'd like, share the recipe with everyone here. Hopefully it's something you've made every year that you love, or if you are "baking-challenged", find a recipe that sounds good and post that one. Feel free to tell everyone why it's so good and/or include pics to make everyone hungry. Entries will be accepted until 9pm ET on Wednesday, November 1st. At that point I'll randomly select 15 winners from all eligible entries and they will each win a Black Friday t-shirt! If you've already won a shirt, you can't win another but feel free to share your recipes if you'd like. Good luck to everyone And don't forget that if you want to order more Black Friday shirts, for the next couple weeks you can still do that here. http://i.gottadeal.com/main/images/merch/contestshirts.png

The winner of the $50 Amazon gift card is... ilikefree and the 10 t-shirt winners are... tracy0504 qtpie HanShotFirst kellis4321 giz len_mullen MariahA Sassoon17 budgetsRsexy wittenlover Congrats and look for a PM from me soon to claim your prize. Another contest coming soon

I forgot that last year Kohl's posted their ad on their site at like 5am on a Friday morning. If they do it again this year, it'll be next Friday

First batch of shirts (from both orders and contest winners) will be shipped within the next week or two

Press release: http://searsholdings.com/press-releases/pr/2062 Wish Book: http://www.sears.com/wishbook

Scans: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/BlackFridayScans/RiteAid PDF: http://i.gottadeal.com/blackfriday/scans/pdf/GottaDeal-RiteAid-BF2017.pdf

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/TargetToyBook See page 3 for promotions such as Cartwheel deals, 25% off coupon and more.

One month to go!

Their promotional materials for their online BF sale always mentions Friday, even though the ad items are online wednesday night, so that might be what that image refers to.

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Put together a little guide for saving Amazon: http://www.gottadeal.com/Article/AmazonGuide Most of it is stuff anyone on here probably already knows about but in case you want to check it out, there you go

I think they announced the 10 days of deals the last few years when they posted their Black Friday ad. The digital BF ad they posted on target.com had some extra pages that had each day's deals.

http://www.kohls.com Kohl's Charge coupon event: 11/8 to 11/16: 30% off for cardholders with code SPLURGE30 Sitewide codes: 11/1 to 11/7: 20% off with code YOUGET20 11/8 to 11/16: 15% off with code THANKYOU15 11/10 only: $10 off $25 with code VETSDAY 11/17 to 11/19: 20% off with code FF20 11/20 to 11/24: 15% off with code TAKE15 11/25 to 11/29: 20% off with code TURKEY20 Their Black Friday sale will likely begin the night of Sunday the 19th, so the expiring 20% off code (FF20) might still be good for a short time when the BF prices change around midnight. Of course we'll probably find another working 20% off code shortly after the sale starts as well, so stay tuned. Additional category codes: (none valid during BF sale) 5% off Home Decor, Furniture, and Holiday Entertaining Essentials with code HOLIDAYHOST. Select Styles. 10/30-11/07. $10 Women's, Men's, Juniors, or Kids Clothing Purchase of $50 or more with code APPAREL10. Select Styles. 11/01-11/05. 20% off Bed & Bath with code TODAYONLY. Select Styles. 11/06. 20% off Fine & Silver Jewelry with code JEWELRY20. Select Styles. 11/02-11/07. $10 Off Melissa & Doug Toys with code PLAYTIME10. Select Styles. 11/08-11/12. 20% off Fine & Silver Jewelry with code DIAMOND20. 11/08-11/16. $10 Off your Home Purchase of $50 or more with code HOME10. Select Styles. 11/12-11/19. 20% off Fine & Silver Jewelry with code JEWELRY20. Select Styles. 11/25-12/09. 20% off Toys with code TOYS20. Select Styles. 11/25. $10 Off Clothing, Shoes, and Accessories for the family purchase of $50 or more with code SATURDAY. Select Styles. 11/25.

Press release from Target: https://corporate.target.com/press/releases/2017/10/target-brings-joy-to-the-holiday-season-with-new-b

Was going through my archive of Black Friday ads recently (I have a stack around 16" tall from the last 11 years) and thought it was interesting to see how Kohl's has changed (or not changed) their ads since 2006. - The number of early bird specials went from over 250, to 300, to 400 and to over 500. - Kohl's Cash went from $10 to $15 in 2011. - Opening times went from Friday 5am to 4am to 3am, to midnight Thursday, to 8pm, to 6pm. - Front page deals are pretty consistent: 50% off toys, a few jewelry deals and a couple electronics items. I'll try to do a few more of these for other stores throughout the next month if there is interest. http://i.gottadeal.com/forums/kohls11.png

Update on ordering deadline: the last day to get your order in is Sunday, November 12th. After that we'll close ordering. We're already low on a few sizes, so don't delay

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/ToysRUsToyBook 120 pages. Thanks to queenkishaa for sending this one

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/15/macys-will-open-early-again-on-thanksgiving-this-year.html Same as last year

http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com/MoreSales/CostcoPreBlackFriday