News from all over the US report that retailers have opened their shops, offering online deals on Thanksgiving to give the Holidays shoppers a good start. The retailers have lured the shoppers to a great extent ahead of the traditional Black Friday kick-off.
CompUSA Inc. opened its doors on Thanksgiving and added an extra incentive for the consumers this year by providing pumpkin pie for those in line.
Iconic toy store FAO Schwarz who has its locations in New York, Chicago and Las Vegas opened the stores on the holiday as well. They kept the stores open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Looking back in the past, the holiday shopping on the Thanksgiving Day was limited to a few discount stores like Kmart and Wal-Mart, or some of the grocery retailers and 24-hour convenience stores like 7-Eleven Inc. Kmart, operated by Sears Holdings Corp. now they are moving one step ahead by making special offers on the Thanksgiving day and airing it on TVs to GPS systems. One of the attractive offers made by Kmart is an Olevia 32-inch LCD HDTV for $419.99 and a Magellan GPS system for $129.99. Cool!!!!!
Reports came from Raleigh, N.C that dozens of shoppers at Kmart were given doughnuts and coffee as early as 7 a.m and immediately after the store opened, they quickly cleared the shelves of top selling items like Nintendo’s Wii, selling for $249.99; the Magellan Maestro 3100 Navigation System for $129.99 and 32-inch Olevia LCD television for $419.99.
The prices will go even down on the Black Friday but there’s going to be a bigger line and perhaps a longer wait. So, most shoppers have found it convenient to pay the extra $20 just to avoid the huge rush next day.
The computers at a Best Buy store in north of Houston were labeled at a very discounted price on Thursday, 24 hours and 15 minutes before its holiday sale opening.
Web shopping is a different matter. More retailers are pushing shoppers to buy online on Thanksgiving, instead of just researching deals for Black Friday, named because it was traditionally when stores became profitable.
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