This is where I do my impression of Nostradamus, I will try and guess what the big bargains of the 20 Black Friday sales will be.
- 3D Tv
- Netbooks
- Washing machines
- Computer monitors
- Clothes
Let me explain my logic a bit here.
3D TV
Tv’s are constantly getting better while keeping the same price. A few years ago the big deal was a 32 inch TV for $500, now you can get a 40inch TV for around the same price.
So my guess is that rather than keep on offering bigger and bigger TV’s the companies are going to try and entice us into buying into a whole new market. Getting a bargain 3D TV may seem a great idea until you realize that your Blu Ray DVD player may not play the discs, you will need to buy 3d TV glasses and you will want to buy every movie you can find in the new format.
If you are an avid movie collector you could well end up with a film collection consisting of VHS,DVD,Blu Ray and Blu Ray 3d versions of some films!
Netbooks -netbooks/notepad computers/desktop computers all will be on sale but I think more places will try and get the absolute cheapest model of netbook they can. Last year kmart had a netbook that was around the $100 mark, will someone do a $99 netbook pc in the day after thanksgiving sale 2010?
Washing Machines – White goods are constantly getting cheaper and as forward facing models become more popular due to their energy efficiency and how darned cool they look they will come down in price.
Computer Monitors – I think that like TV offers we will see 24 and even 27 inch computer monitors on offer for Black Friday 2010 and especially on Cyber Monday 2010 . One of the big things that will get mentioned is how easy it is to run dual monitors using Windows 7, so you don’t need to get a new pc just get a new pc monitor.
Clothes – these are a consumable and we keep on consuming. I think we will see lots of $2 T Shirts at Walmart,Kmart and even Target in the 2010 day after thanksgiving sale . Add to this all the deals on jeans and shoes and I think clothes may well be the next big item for everyones trolley.
These won’t be the only items that will be deals to good to miss but I think these will be the higher end items that catch peoples attention and get lots of traffic.
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The big two stores both have their Day After Thanksgiving Ads out now and as is to be expected there are both selling some items at very similar prices.
Well Walmarts kitchen appliances are $4 while Target has them at $3 which I suppose is 25% less but still a bargain.
One thing I thought was weird when I looked at the Walmart was that it says the prices are 5am till 1pm, but then I have heard that they are going to be open all night. So will you go in at 7pm Thanksgiving day after all the family go home and crab the big screen LCD TV that will be dropping in price at 5am then go and sit with it in a corner fighting off all latecomers!
Maybe there is a business model there, if you are a big guy then offer your services as a product minder for people at Walmart to make sure no one else snatches the bargains once you have them in your cart.
If they are open all night I would love to see how they are going to make sure the bargains dont all get picked up and carried around the store for hours on end. It has to be better than sitting out in the cold for hours on end.
Maybe every Black Friday Walmart Sale item will be in one part of the store and the gates will lift and 5am and then the cage match begins over the Blu Ray DVD player!
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2009 has been one of the worst years on record for stores, no one has any money so they aren’t spending it on anything.
We have already had the Christmas in July sales now we are having the “early Black Friday sales“ which are being advertised as if they will be better than the real sales!
Amazon and Wal Mart have already been selling xbox 360 arcade consoles for $199.99 with a $100 gift card included. Sure they didn’t have many of them on offer but they did have some at least.
I have heard that so many people applied on Amazon it shut their system down for a while. Many people didn’t get in quick enough and that caused some PR problems I understand.
That is one of the problems with the Black Friday Sales, hundreds of people lining up for what may only be 6 laptops or TV’s. You can end up with a lot of very upset customers as you can imagine.
So maybe shopping early is a good solution, you don’t have to get up at some ungodly hour and wait with everyone else in the cold to get what you want.
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