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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Lets be honest there are some wonderful deals already available and the prices on some items (TV’s come to mind) are truly not ones to be missed.
For most of the year the big box stores make a huge thing out of the fact that they price match. You go into Best Buy show them that the local Walmart is selling a Sony TV for $399 and they will price match, that is the basic idea (i am sure there are some rules I have missed but that is it in a snapshot).
So some people will be thinking rather than getting up at 3am to be in line at Target by 3.30 ready for their 5am opening I will go to kmart who don’t open till 7am and ask them to price match.
On any other weekend of the year this would be a sound plan however it won’t work on Thanksgiving weekend, the stores do not price match from the sheets that they call “door runners” (thanks to Cameron for teaching me the lingo).
So you will need to either get up very early or stay in bed and just pay the extra $20. I know which I am picking, give me the duvet back..
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