Kanyon71

I have a feeling now that things are starting to come out it will only get busier here.

There were some good deals last year on them. I ended up getting an Apple Watch for my wife (we have iPhones so it goes with it). She loves it, I had bought her a FitBit which she used until it started making her break out. She says she gets a lot more use out of the smart watch though.

That's crazy. Not quite that cold here yet. Ya I lived in FL for 18 years. No snow there lol

Does that mean they are going to have Fire Sales to get rid of them? I'm surprised Amazon hasn't sued them yet, I mean they had the Amazon Fire before Samsung came around with this one.

Which one? The new mini one with built in games or the one to replace the Wii U?

It's on now I love the first release. Sort of like the first snowfall of the year you know more is yet to come.

I've noticed the prices at the one by us that's closing aren't all that great. Few good deals here and there but nothing we have been floored by.

I have not been there on Thursday but have been in them on BF before. I know normal parts of the year it's like Home Depot lately. Impossible to find someone who works there. Then when you do find someone they seem to know nothing about what you need. Ya when I was living in FL we got spoiled by the nice weather while out shopping. Would need a jacket some days then by 7am-8am I was removing layers since it was now hot out lol. Here in MI it's COLD out. We make sure to take a good thermos of hot chocolate or coffee with us.

Honestly more than getting your dollar I think it's going to come down to that it's costing them more to be open than it is to just wait until 5am on Friday to open with the rest of them. K-Mart has been open on Thursday for a long time, I don't go but people I know who have said it's just like any other day only 2 people working in the store (yes I know this is an exaggeration) so it's not like it cost's them a whole lot and with the way they are heading this could end up being their last holiday season closing left and right around here.

I'm 1080p until 16k tv's hit the market. Then I'm all over those (probably not but it will be time to replace my current group by then lol) Our TV purchase this year is only going to be in the 50"-60" range so no need for anything above 1080p for me. Not to mention none of the video sources I use support 4K anyway and I have no plans on replacing those anytime soon.

I'm already ready for post election coverage or other things lol.

Some people will always want to be out there no matter the day, more power to them. For some this is what they do on Thanksgiving. Myself and my family we all prefer to have a good meal, watch some football and just generally talk. After all that we tend to plot our Friday plans out and figure out who's going and who's watching kid's and so forth. I wish many of them would get back to the Friday just so I can get excited about getting a doorbuster again

I honestly don't see them avoiding it too much either way. I think if they release then it gives people time to look over the ad's while they are watching news and such to see who'd ahead.

Honestly when it comes to deals, if it seems to be a good deal then I usually just jump on it. Sometimes you wait for the better deal and that one closes out.

I'm good with anything that pops up. I try to make it when I can, sadly life gets in the way at times.

Same here, we actually own a bunch of Christmas Movies and have some that stay on the DVR year round. We tend to watch them at random times. We watched National Lampoons Christmas Vacation a couple weeks ago, watched Home Alone 2 last night.

I don't blame campers at all for it. No matter what day the sales start on the hardcore will be there well before that.

I've noticed this as a trend across the price spectrum lately. Definitely not likely to get one in the thinner machines. When I swapped out to a MacBook air (yes I know Apple) I thought the no DVD drive thing would drive me nuts. Can honestly say I haven't needed it yet, everything I've used has been downloaded, I think internet is taking over in that aspect.

You caught me I didn't read it We have used price matching at all stores that we go to that have it. It makes life easier. Some of the things we buy the price difference is significant and we will leave the store in order to go purchase it at another store. Seems to me Walmart is already having sales issues and doing this will drive even more sales away. Ol Sam must be super happy.

We don't go out on Thanksgiving. All the shopping that gets done at that point is online only. I have resigned myself to the fact that we won't get door busters any longer since they are no longer on Friday. So I stay up late working on stuff and grab the things that pop up online as I see them. If they switch back to Friday I'm all for it will bring back some of what has been missing the past couple of years. Though I have to say the stores are much less busy when we get to them early Friday now lol.

I know the ones around us are still doing it. We had then price match their own site for a ladder we bought.

I know many of us have voiced our opinion on this either against or for it but I found this very interesting. Was just looking at a local paper and ran across this article. http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2016/10/mall_thanksgiving_hours_michig.html#incart_river_home Largest shopping mall in the US is closing for the day this year The Mall Of America says it will be closed the entire day for all 1,200 hours and that they will reopen as of 5am on Black Friday. They are saying this could be very influential across the retail scene.

I haven't heard anything about it. Something like that I would expect to make the news. If that's the case I can see them losing a lot of business to places that do price match or Amazon.

We use a drawstring backpack on almost every vacation, makes it easier to carry things we need around to beaches and theme parks and stuff.

Awesome. Maybe I will be doing some Staples visiting this year.