November 23, 2012 Are you one of the brave and/or desperate souls that is out shopping today? If so, first of all, I will pray for you. Also, feel free to peruse our Black Friday deals page with some of the bigger sales happening around the area. As for me, I plan to curl up in the corner in the fetal position until this day is over.
While some fanatical Black Friday and Cyber Monday shoppers are already at the gates waiting to assault the holiday-shopping season with their fearsome craving for stuff, some retail analysts say the gates are actually open now and the race is already in progress.
Thom Blischok, chief retail strategist for Booz and Company says, “Cyber Monday has begun, essentially. No question about it.”
The holiday season will officially kick-off this week. We hope everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving on Thursday, and for those of you that are brave enough to start shopping, we wish you good luck in finding outstanding deals.
One of the big stories that has developed over the past few weeks is just how early Black Friday will begin in 2012. In fact, with some stores, Black Friday deals will begin even before Friday does! K-Mart has been open on Thanksgiving Day for a number of years, Big Lots will also be open on Thanksgiving, and the big news this year is that Wal-Mart will begin offering Black Friday deals at 8 p.m. on Thursday.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest shopping day of the year, will be on November 23. We are putting together a comprehensive a list of Black Friday offers from business in the Quincy/Hannibal area. This list will be continuously updated up through Black Friday, as a resource for shoppers.
There is hardly any such thing as Black Friday anymore. With numerous retailers, like Walmart, opening their doors to holiday bargain addicts as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, other retailers must now either join the circus or risk missing out on frantic buyers with turkey hangovers and itchy spending fingers.
Black Friday may not be able to keep its name much longer. This holiday season, Walmart plans to get the shopping madness started a bit earlier than in times past—on Thursday. Or as most of us call it, Thanksgiving.
