This is the event you’ve looked forward to all year round. Black Friday, the Super Bowl of shopping, is finally happening.
To help you plan for this once in a year adventure where you score enormous discounts on gadgets, electronics, toys and apparel, WitSpark has put together the highlights of incredible Black Friday offerings from three of the most popular brick and mortar retailers in the country.
Black Friday sale at Walmart stores starts at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, November 22. Online sale will start tomorrow, Nov. 21, at 10 p.m. ET/ 9 p.m. CT.
Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, will offer huge savings on hundreds of hot ticket items, such as the following:
- iPhone 8, 8+ or X—Get a $400 Walmart gift card with qualified activation.
- iPhone XS, XS Max or XR—Get a $300 Walmart gift card with qualified activation.
- Galaxy S8, S8+, S9, S9+ or Note9—Get a $300 Walmart gift card with qualified activation.
- Apple iPad (6th generation), $249 (Save $80)
- Google Home Hub, $99 (Save $50)
- Roku Ultra with JBL Headphones, $48 (Save $51)
- Samsung 55″ Class 4K Smart TV, $398
- VIZIO 60″ Class 4K Smart TV, $498 (Save $100)
- Sony PlayStation VR – Astro Bot Bundle, $199 (Save $100)
As you probably know, Walmart offers free 2-day shipping on orders above $35.
Walmart attempts to make Black Friday in-store shopping a good experience for shoppers. The retailing giant provides a color-coded store map in the Walmart app, as well as the Black Friday circular. This will come in handy as you hunt for your chosen deals at the store.
To create a light-hearted and cheery atmosphere during the year’s biggest shopping event, Walmart will be serving complimentary coffee and cookies to customers two hours before the sale begins. All told, Walmart will be giving away four million cups of coffee from Keurig and nearly two million cookies from the Walmart Bakery.
One of the country’s top consumer electronics retailers, Best Buy will offer doorbusters and thousands of other Black Friday deals to in-store customers and online shoppers starting on Thanksgiving Day.
Best Buy’s nearly a thousand stores across the country will open their doors to eager customers at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Nov. 22, and will remain open until 1 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 23. They will reopen at 8 a.m. the following morning.
Here are some of Best Buy’s unbelievable Black Friday deals:
- Samsung – 65″ Class – LED – Q6F Series – 2160p – Smart – 4K UHD TV with HDR, $1,297.99 (Save $502)
- LG – 55″ Class – OLED – C8 Series – 2160p – Smart – 4K UHD TV with HDR, $1,699.99 (Save $500)
- Sharp – 55″ Class – LED – 2160p – Smart – 4K UHD TV with HDR Roku TV, $249.99 (Save $150)
- iPhone XR, XS, iPhone XS Max—Save $150 with qualified activation.
- Samsung Galaxy Note9, S9+, S9—Save $300 with qualified activation.
- Samsung – Galaxy S8 64GB (Unlocked)—Save $150 with qualified activation.
- Apple iPad mini 4 Wi-Fi 128GB, $249.99 (Save $150)
- MacBook Air—Save up to $250
- Samsung Chromebook with Intel Celeron Processor, $99 (Save $130)
- Xbox One X – Gold Rush Special Edition Battlefield V Bundle with 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray, $429.99 (Save $70)
- Google Home Hub Smart Speaker with Google Assistant, $99.99 (Save $49)
During the holiday shopping season ending on Dec. 25, BestBuy.com shoppers will benefit from free shipping on all items with no minimum purchase required.
Minneapolis-based Target Corporation will kick off its Black Friday sale across the U.S. at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Target stores will close at 1 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 23, and reopen at 7 a.m. that same day.
The country’s second-largest department store retailer will offer the following enticing deals:
- iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max—Get $250 Target gift card with qualified activation. (7am Friday-Sunday)
- iPhone X, 8+, 8—Get $150 Target gift card with qualified activation. (7am Friday-Sunday)
- Samsung Galaxy Note9—Get $300 Target gift card with qualified activation. (7am Friday-Sunday)
- Google Pixel 3 or Pixel 3 XL—Get $200 Target gift card with qualified activation. (7am Friday-Sunday)
- 6th Generation iPads—Save $80
- Samsung Galaxy Tab A 10.1″ Tablet, $159.99 (Save $120)
- 65″ Smart Curved UHD TV, $799.99 (Save $300)
- Playstation 4 1TB Marvel’s Spider-Man Bundle, $199.99 (Save $100)
- Google Home Mini, $25 (Save $24)
- Roku Ultra Streaming Player, $49.99 (Save $24)
Just this month, Target has started to provide free 2-day shipping to all guests on hundreds of thousands of items with no minimum purchase required.
Always striving to be America’s easiest place to shop, Target will provide localized store maps in the Target app which will allow shoppers to easily locate Black Friday deals in the store.
You, your family and friends have long prepared for the Black Friday sale. Now, the action begins.
Break a leg… Or rather, return home happy and in one piece.
