Black Friday News

The much-awaited Black Friday in July at Target is in full swing today, and apparently the deals are pretty amazing. The sale is storewide, with Black Friday deals on electronics, apparel and footwear, toys, home decor, patio and garden items, baby gear, jewelry and a whole lot more.

Summer just gets better and better: Targetis throwing a Black Friday in July sale on the 15th! This is very exciting news, because Black Friday is our favourite day of the year and because we know there will be some amazing deals.

The online-only Black Friday in July sale starts at 2am CST (12am PST) and ends at 2am CST (12am PST), so mark your calendars and get shopping as soon as you can on the 15th before these deals disappear.

Hunting transforms from a hobby into an extreme sport. For most of us, this shopping marathon can also be exhausting.

Of course, you could always stay home, but if you choose to brave the crowds, keep your energy up with the following 10 shopping tips:

Black Friday is traditionally the day the Christmas shopping season kicks off. It's becoming the shopping day of the year and more and more Americans are using this Thanksgiving Holiday to buy gifts and toys for Christmas! The following are some historically hot toys and gifts that have put people into a craze during Black Friday and Christmas season shopping.

Hot Toy/ Gift: Cabbage Patch Kids

• Year Popular: 1982
• Description: Created in 1978, went on to define dolls in the eighties.

We’ve got some very exciting news: we just relaunched BlackFriday.com with a brand new look and lots more of your favourite stores! You can still expect the same HOT deals, up-to-the-minute ad scans and breaking Black Friday news we brought you last year, plus much, much more!

Today’s guest post is from Thomas Ballantyne. Tom and I know each other from marketing tradeshows and conferences. Imagine my surprise when monitoring search results for “black friday” I saw his site come up. This time it wasn’t in relation to the shopping day though, it was to my current nemesis in monitoring for people talking about Black Friday…what’s being called “the worst song ever” Rebecca Black – Friday.

Rob Woods

You’ve probably heard Christmas in July sales pitches from retailers, but here’s a new one for you: Black Friday in the Spring.

“What kind of March madness is this,” you might wonder? Home Depot is attempting to bring Black Friday back because their sales cycle doesn’t match most other retailers. “Spring is our Christmas” responds Craig Menaear, EVP for Home Depot merchandising when questioned about a spring Black Friday.

Sometimes when a term or phrase becomes very popular, it gets abused and misused. “Black Friday” is no exception. Below are some examples of the use of “Black Friday” that leaves us scratching our heads, especially when you consider the history of Black Friday and what it has been widely accepted as today.

With 305 days to go until Black Friday 2011, it may seem premature, but it is never too early for
retailers to prepare for their most important shopping day of the year.
Here’s what retailers need to think about for Black Friday 2011:

Black Friday 2011 Date: Friday, November 25th (the day after Thanksgiving).

Economics indicators: Black Friday 2011 will be far more lucrative then 2010.

We’re headed into the 2011 holiday shopping season, and both shoppers and retailers are wondering what to expect this year! Many decisions will likely be made based on last year’s hits and misses, so we’ve compiled some interesting Black Friday 2010 stats to help you know what to expect this year.

The National Retail Federation reports that a whopping 212 million shoppers visited websites and stores during Black Friday and the following Saturday and Sunday. That translates to an increase of 17 million shoppers from 2009!

We wanted to send out a special thank you to everyone who used BlackFriday.com this year and helped make the holiday such a fantastic experience! We hope that you enjoyed using the site and found all the amazing deals you were looking for. We're already excited for Black Friday next year, and we'd love to hear from you so we can make the site even better. Contact us and tell us what you'd like to see!

We want you to get the most out of Black Friday this year, and that includes being able to easily enjoy the BlackFriday.com iPhone App! If you’re having trouble or have a question or comment about the app, we want to hear from you.

Our friendly team at BlackFriday.com is eager help you so you can get back to shopping, saving and sharing! You can either email us at contact@blackfriday.com or contact us here and we will reply to you within one business day.

Thank you for using the BlackFriday.com App!

Black Friday was golden for computers, TVs, Blu-rays and camcorders, despite consumer electronics sales revenues decreasing year over year. Consumers spent $2.7 billion, down 1.2% over 2008 despite sales unit volumes being up, meaning retailers discounted products to drive sales volumes.

Deep discounts is what we predicted earlier this year as we knew retailers were focused on getting consumers to shop at all.

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Today Home Depot is offering up to 30% off Appliances, 30% off Dyson Vacuums, 15% off Select KOHLER & Sterling Bath Products, 20% Select Artificial Christmas Trees, $50 Off Select Wine coolers, and more!

The amazing deals at Walmart are continuing with Cyber Monday Specials. Start saving early on holiday shopping this year with six full days of discounted prices on your favorite items. We're excited that our users can bring home more for less. Check out Walmart's Cyber Week Online Specials!

by a fan of our site:

T’was the night before Black Friday,
With her turkey dinner all done.
She sips her decaf and grins,
For the real fun hasn’t yet begun.

As with years past, excitement built when Apple’s site announced their participation in Black Friday. For several days, they promoted it by bringing people to a splash page that told them to come see their Black Friday deals either online, or in-store, but not until Black Friday.

No Black Friday site had any Apple ad scans or information, but some, us, went ahead and predicted what Apple would do for their sale. Like the weather, the best information we had was what happened yesterday, or in this case: last Black Friday. In 2009, Apple offered 10% off some items, and free shipping.

If you haven’t already signed up for our Black Friday sweepstakes, which have been running all month long, now is the time. Today we are giving away our biggest prize yet (both in terms of money and size). Today we’re giving away a 46″ 3D 1080p HDTV  From Samsung:
Good luck! Just promise you won’t get mad at us if you win and everyone wants to watch TV at your house.

It’s not often we see an Internet Service Provider joining in the Black Friday fun, but CLEAR (aka Clearwire) has an interesting offer on their Clear Spot 4G device. They are offering an 80% discount on the price of the device, bringing it down from $99 to a mere $20.

Approved just in time for Black Friday, the ultimate Black Friday iPhone App is now available now!

Just in time for Black Friday, BlackFriday.com has just launched the BlackFriday.com iPhone app on iTunes. The BlackFriday.com app is free and provides everything you need for America’s biggest shopping event on the go!

There’s no question big retail chains like Best Buy, Walmart, and Target get most of the Black Friday attention. We thought we’d give some attention to some of the smaller retailers out there that may not have the marketing budgets or name recognition some of the big guys have. Below are some of the deals we found from smaller retailers.

Follow these Black Friday Eve tips to get the most out of the biggest shopping day of the year:

1. Be a proud couch potato – Don’t feel ashamed when you plop yourself in front of the TV for most of turkey day. You’re doing research. Keep a notepad near you and jot down the product and store that catches your eye. You are starting to compile your battle plan. Thanksgiving Day television is not just for football fans....

Target has certainly been creative with their marketing approach to Black Friday in 2010–more so then we’ve seen in years past. And like much of modern-day marketing, they aren’t relying on Television alone–the Web has become a big part of their marketing.

Besides the series of funny videos hosted on YouTube we show below, Target decided to sponsor one of Twitter’s hottest hashtags #blackfriday (yes, played our part in helping it become popular earlier then any year in the past).

Black Friday doorbuster deals are the primary motivator for participating in Black Friday shopping. Though many doorbusters are amazing deals are sold at a loss for the retailer, there are some things you should look out for when going after a doorbuster deal.