black friday

Several major retailers made headlines when they announced when they would open their doors on Thanksgiving evening. News reports are coming in from around the country are mixed results. See the news coverage below.

Walmart has been taking a lot of heat about opening for Black Friday on Thanksgiving. Even the workers are now ready to strike, and they have.

Get ready to shop until you drop.  The holiday shopping season will kick off on Thanksgiving.  For those who want to make the most of every dollar they spend, are the best holiday deals on Black Friday or on Cyber Monday?

Black Friday can be crazy, which may be why some folks are going to extremes to make sure they don't miss out on the deals.

Competition among retailers is fierce, especially when it involves the holidays.  Walmart is the latest retailer to unveil Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving.

The too-good-to-be-true bargains that abound on Black Friday may entice people to go holiday shopping, but they may lure in even more people interested in buying gifts for themselves.

Record online sales are expected for this Thanksgiving and the rest of the 2013 holiday shopping season.  Are you ready to spend big money online?

Holiday shoppers have been sharpening their skills for weeks in anticipation of all the Thanksgiving and Black Friday deals that are schedule to go down before most holiday dinners are even digested.

Last year, Best Buy made a bunch of their customers angry when they were unable to fill the orders taken on Black Friday and Cyber Monday due to a lack of inventory. The company then failed to make its customers aware of this until just days before Christmas. Needless to say, Best Buy’s customer-service practices have not been held in very high regard ever since.

Everyone knows that the day after Thanksgiving -- aka Black Friday -- is the busiest day of the year for shopping. But apparently three wild deer got a bit confused as to the date and showed up at Kohl's department store four days early.

Driving into work on Black Friday morning, I was surprised to see the parking lot at the Wal-Mart I pass was not even a third full at 5AM.  That's very different from past Black Fridays.  What gives?  Seems most of the Friday shopping was done Thursday night as stores opened on Thanksgiving. We've complied the fights, pushing and shoving, and general rudeness that often taints the day.

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.