Bloggers Discuss Black Friday Sales
The holidays are drawing closer and so are the big holiday sales. Black Friday comes the day after Thanksgiving and it is the day retailers offer big deals to try and lure shoppers into their stores. Retailers are hoping the holiday shopping gets off to a get start but many have concerns because of the serious financial crisis. Tech blogs and product blogs cover the holiday in earnest releasing shopping tips and sharing the best deals. Here's a look at some of the Black Friday activity.
Wal-Mart didn't want some of its Black Friday ad circulars leaked so it issued takedown
notices.
The Is it Black Friday Yet? website answers an obvious question and also provides a handy Black Friday Ads Chart showing which websites have posted the Black Friday ads for the big retailers.
The Inquistr has a post offering ten ways to find those Black Friday deals.
Mashable also has a post that lists ten sources for
Black Friday ads.
ReadWriteWeb has compiled 25 resources to
get you ready for Black Friday.
Rumors about what Black Friday deals Apple is planning have been discussed on many of the Apple blogs including
Wired, Macrumors.com, Tom's Guide, Mac Daily News, Gizmodo, I4U, Gizmodo, Yahoo Tech, TUAW, Infinite Loop, Techmeme and MacBlogz.
Here are some quick links to the Black Friday sections from some of the major gadget and shopping blogs: ShoppingBlog.com, CrunchGear, Engadget, Gizmodo, Joystiq,
I4U, Kotaku, WalletPop, Consumerist and The Cheapskate.
Some Twitters have been set up to cover Black Friday including @BlackFriday,
@BFads, @BlackFriday_fm, @FW_BlackFriday and
@DealTaker and @ConsumInterests. You can also search Twitter for "Black Friday" and read all the latest tweets. Some Twitter users are also using hashtags and marking their tweets with #black or #blackfriday
Some of the major retailers are Twittering as well. Here are links to some retailer twitter accounts: Toysrus, The Home Depot, Whole Foods, ThinkGeek, Build-a-Bear,
Zappos, Starbucks, PacSun and NewEggMall. Note: The Social Brand Index lists more twittering retailers here.
The most heavily discussed Black Friday deal so far is the Wal-Mart's Black Friday Magnavox
blu-ray deal, which is the Magnavox MB500MG9 for $128 - down from $198. It's probably the most discussed deal aside from the rumors about Apple's Black Friday ads.
What will be discussed after Black Friday in detail and what will impact the stock market is whether these Black Friday sales actually help to get consumers buying again or whether the sales will dissapointing.
Posted on November 20, 2008
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