Thanksgiving in the US

[Newt]

Black Friday was originally set up for some large chain stores to offer a few BIG TICKET items at huge discounts of up to 90% and to open their doors really early (0400 was not unusual). Supplies of the items were always very small and it was a pretty good way to get lots of shoppers into the store since you rarely had a chance to visit more than one store while any of the sale items remained.

 

This year was really ridiculous with stores offering a week or a month of "Black Friday" sales which usually meant a 10-20% discounts on a few items. Even some auto dealers and some furniture stores got into the act this year.

 

I went to one normal BF sale at Bass Pro. Don't remember exactly what they had on offer but they advertised opening at 0400. I arrived at 0330 and they had already been open for over an hour and almost nothing on sale remained. Once was more than enough and I haven't gone shopping on that particular Friday since that one.

[Phone]

Newt,

 

A big box store offered a nearly 85% discount on 42in TV. It came with the following - "none available within 250 miles of zip code (mine!!).

 

No bother, I'm not much of a month of Black Friday guy anyway.

 

Phone

[Ken L]

Newt,

 

A big box store offered a nearly 85% discount on 42in TV. It came with the following - "none available within 250 miles of zip code (mine!!).

 

No bother, I'm not much of a month of Black Friday guy anyway.

 

Phone

If you are looking, LG have just signed off some big reductions on their US range of flat screens. Their OLED TV's are about as good as TV's get - and the offers shouldn't be limited to black Friday.