suzastampin
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Post by suzastampin on Nov 11, 2014 23:11:50 GMT
We will be shopping from home for whatever we can get online. We ate dinner mid afternoon last year. Our daughter and her family left to head to Walmart for the guaranteed things at 6 pm. So much for guaranteed as people got there at 4 or before and had all of it in their carts or had the vouchers waiting for the registers to open.
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melissa
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Post by melissa on Nov 11, 2014 23:17:20 GMT
I know a lot eat early, but the times of the big stores (Walmart, Target, Best Buy--I don't consider "Kmart" to be a big store given their current financial situation) have gotten earlier and earlier every year. Some of us actually want to shop at these stores, but they're not giving us much wiggle room to eat and be with family and then shop! It's disappointing. 10pm was fine when they went with that model. I wish they went back to it. Kmart has been open ON Thanksgiving Day in the morning for more than 10 years. It's just that no one made a fuss or cared back then. I know this because when we would have to check out of the hotel by dh's family on Thanksgiving morning, we'd generally go to KMart because it was open. Everyone was always so nice, shoppers and employees alike. Never crowded. Always a pleasure. and probably the only day of the year I ever shopped at Kmart. The only one quasi-local to us is not nice at all. |
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Post by cecelia on Nov 12, 2014 1:59:11 GMT
I've never in my life participated in Black Friday sales. There is no way I'd ever want to leave my comfy bed that early on a day off.
What's funny is that 6pm Thanksgiving Day would probably be the best time for me. Our meal starts with apps at 12, sit down meal at 1:30-2 and we are done by about 4:30-5:00. By 10pm I'm in a turkey coma so that time wouldn't work for me either.
If I didn't hate shopping, crowds, and pushy people, I might actually consider it.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2014 2:10:15 GMT
I saw on the Today show the Sunday *before* Thanksgiving is the best time to shop. Better deals than black Friday and hot items are usually still available.
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Post by lovinlife on Nov 12, 2014 3:16:28 GMT
I downloaded a black Friday app but not sure I'll be able to do any shopping this year as dh is on call at the hospital on Thanksgiving. I was able to get something for my youngest dd from Target. They had black Friday deals on Monday on certain items. I ordered and to get the special price I had to do store pickup. Picked it up Monday afternoon.
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