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    Is Black Friday becoming meaningless?

    in 2008

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    http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/11/is-black-friday-becoming-meani.html

     

    Black Friday is nearly upon us. Does it matter?

     

    You can't deny that the day after Thanksgiving has lost something of its luster over the past decade. It's not always the highest-volume sales day of the year any longer. (Check out this PDF from the International Council of Shopping Centers if you don't believe me.)

     

    You may have already known that. But are you aware of an even greater change in what's taking place in the retail world this year?

     

    Retailers are competing even more fiercely online for your business, which is extending the official "deal season" even earlier. Many now don't even sweat the whole "Friday" concept of "Black Friday."

     

    For instance, Dell's already pushing Black Friday deals, well in advance of the actual date. Some of its marked-down offerings include a Dell SE178WFP Monitor, a Dell V305 All-In-One Printer, a Western Digital 1 TB My Book Home External Hard Drive and a Sharp 42-inch LC42SB45U 1080p LCD HDTV. Other PC and electronics e-tailers are doing the same: Here's MicroCenter's deals.

     

    Kmart is likewise carrying a slew of holiday sales -- including products with "Black Friday Prices" -- on its home page. USB storage figures prominently here.

     

    Everyone's getting into the action. Costco's deals (going with the generic "Holiday Savings" theme on these) offer some big savings on GPS units and flat-panel displays.

     

    A local favorite here in Manhattan, J&R Electronics, is also starting early with its Black Friday deals on DVDs and Blu-Ray discs. Here's your chance to get a legal copy of 1992's "Sneakers" for $3.99.

     

    Meanwhile, ShopNBC's Black Friday deals begins by referring to its listings as "special pre-Black Friday holiday deals and offers," but by mid-page, has abandoned the game entirely and just lumps all the offers under "Black Friday."

     

    And then there's Wal-Mart, which last year sought to undercut 'em all with its (wonderfully misnamed) "Secret Sale" that began a full three weeks ahead of Black Friday.

     

    This year, the nation's largest retailer is co-opting the horde of sites out there charting Black Friday (and pre-Black Friday) ads, giving some sites permission to post its Black Friday deals in advance. Here's where you can get that HP DeskJet F2210 All-in-One Printer for $29.

     

    So, here's the upshot: Black Monday is no longer a day -- now, it's a movement. Thank the current economic malaise for expediting this trend, which ostensibly means a wider window in which consumers can snap up deals. (It also means a wider window during which retailers will be selling discounted merchandise and slashing shipping fees, cutting into their margins... hmm.)

     

    As for Black Friday's online step-relative "Cyber Monday" -- never that accurate a term to begin with -- I can't imagine this recent turn of events doing it any favors.

     

    We all know that for some time, Cyber Monday not exactly lived up to its hype as the highest-volume e-commerce day of the year. (Has it ever?) Typically, the most online shopping gets done on the Monday or Tuesday about two weeks ahead of Christmas.

     

    Officially, the National Retail Federation's Shop.org -- one of the prime movers behind the term, with its own page devoted to upcoming Cyber Monday deals -- admits that it's not, strictly speaking, the actual busiest day for online sales:

     

    Cyber Monday is a Shop.org-coined term for the Monday after Thanksgiving, which is seen by many retailers, consumers and the media as the official kick-off to the online holiday shopping season.

     

    At any rate, with steep deals extending earlier and earlier, it's clear that retailers aren't betting on the tradition of Black Friday to singlehandedly deliver the customers.

     

    And if that trend makes Cyber Monday even less relevant, then that's fine with me: We in the media already have too many vacuous marketing-originated terms to handle and justify using in our copy. Besides, just making sense of them all gets in the way of hopping on all those early Black Friday steals!

     

     

    Some info on BB Black Friday

    in 2008

    Posted

    I went to BB this morning, picked up the 299 laptop for my mom. Anyways while we were standing outside,one of the loss prevention guys came out to talk to us, he said that BB may open at 12am on bf. He said this is what they are planning but that it's not a def yet. So who knows? It would be cool if they did that, then I would be able to go home and snooze a bit before hitting the rest of the stores, but then again people might start camping out on Tuesday and it could get more hectic than it already has become in the last few yrs.

    I think I have my mom convinced

    in 2007

    Posted

    To have Thanksgiving dinner weds night:D So we can go out bright in early on Thurs morning :gdclap: .. Does this make me a black friday addict and bringing in other people to feed my addiction :D

     

    Glad to see I'm not the only crazy one!! :cheesy:

    Manhattan?

    in 2007

    Posted

    I know that there is a Target in Manhattan, but I'm not exactly sure where it is. I do remember that it is going up towards The Bronx (if that helps). There are two in Brooklyn if you decide to go that way. One is in downtown Brooklyn, by Atlantic Ave., if you drive you can take the BQE to the Atlantic exit and it is a few blocks up, or you can take the train. The other one is kind of far on the Belt Parkway, exit 15. Hth.

    Target Pampers feel & learn deal *(HOT)*

    in Offline Hot Deals

    Posted

    Now MY own correction:

    $10 (sale price) for 1 jumbo pack.

     

    $20 buy 2 packs

    -$3 two $1.50 Target coupons

    -$5 Target coupon (buy $20, get $5 off something else in your cart)

    $12 for 2 packs

     

    Receive a $5 gift card for another visit. $12 - $5GC = $7

     

    Net cost of the 2 packs of paper towels: $7 or $3.50 per jumbo pack

    There were also $1 off Bounty in this months P&G insert.

    So an additional 3 bucks off!! sounds good to me.

    Perimeter Perusing at Target (Target Clearance Deals) - 2007

    in Offline Hot Deals

    Posted

    Ok, so there I was, perimeter walking, and there's a woman following me. Looking at what I am looking at. Going down the same isle that I turn down. I speed up, she speeds up. I'm thinking, she's looking for the bargins and thinks I know the way to them.. But then it happens, I turn down and up an isle and I think I lose her but when I get to the endcap there she is waiting for me. She holds up a badge and picture ID. Store Security. Seems like I have been in there while there has been an increase in shoplifting. I swear to her that the only thing I have done is used expired coke coupons to get a dollar off... "Then I woke up. It was only a dream!!!!!!! My friend, who works at target, says its time for me to go shop someplace else..

    Lmao. I thought I was the only one losing it in all this target madness!:gdparanoid::D

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