Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving where most large retailers offer amazing discounts primarily for Christmas shopping. Stores like Best Buy and Staples open as early as 5AM and offer door buster deals for the first 100 customers. CompUSA (now bought out by TigerDirect.com) has their door buster deals starting at midnight after Thanksgiving.Black Friday is not an official holiday but when standing in line with hundreds of shoppers, it does feel like one. You can expect huge crowds and lines going around the store before they open (Fry’s Electronics in particular). If you’re lucky enough to find something you went there for, bring something to entertain you because you will be standing in line anywhere from 30min to 3hours.
It's known to be one of the busiest days of the year in terms of actual sales volume. In my family, after Thanksgiving we usually stay up all night playing games and just spending time with family and close friends till about 5AM. Once the clock hits 5AM, we hit the stores for tremendous savings. www.bfads.net is a website that reveals most of the ads of the large retailers before the print ads hit the newspapers. This year doesn't look as good as far as great deals are concerned.
Where will you be this Black Friday?
I am not much of a shopper and really have not shopped on Black Friday since I was a young girl and then it was shopping with my mother and sisters. I usually have had to work on Black Friday. Last week I was in Lee, MA at a Factory Outlet Center http://www.primeoutlets.com/locations/lee.aspx, shopping with my husband and sister-in-law and I noticed that the Outlet Center is having a Pajama Jam that starts at 12:01AM November 28, 2008!!! By the way, Malik, is this your subtle way of saying you will not be at your desk working on 11/28????
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ReplyDeleteI might be doing a little bit of Black Friday shopping this year (not much) but for the most part will be available when I'm not spending time with family. As always, I'll be available on call as well =)