Friday, November 23, 2012
Ready, get set, go shopping! The bargain hunting starts early this year, so Patch has compiled the best big box discounts to give you a head start.
If you want the best Black Friday deals, you'll barely have enough time to gobble down your turkey; forget about your pumpkin pie. Stores are opening earlier than ever on Thanksgiving to grab Black Friday shoppers. Toys 'R Us, Walmart, Kmart and Sears open their doors at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving. Target opens at 9 p.m. Many others open at midnight or very early Friday morning. Several stores are offering waves of doorbusters. Many also are advertising online deals, which include free shipping, and Black Friday prices all day Thanksgiving. The early start to Black Friday has even prompted some opponents to start petitions against the practice. [Please remember to patronize small businesses Saturday in Brighton for Small Business Saturday! If …
Thursday, November 15, 2012
This year offers the longest possible shopping season between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become the accepted if unofficial start time of the Christmas rush. It's a huge day for retailers but only the first of a roughly month-long extravaganza. And thanks to Abe Lincoln, who decreed Thanksgiving a national holiday, Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed into law that it should fall on the fourth Thursday in November, and Pope Gregory XIII, who blessed the calendar we use by papal bull, 2012 has the longest possible shopping season. To explain: Because Nov. 1 fell on a Thursday, the fourth Thursday and Thanksgiving, Nov. 22, couldn't fall any sooner. And that means there is more time – the most time any year can provide – for shoppers to shop and businesses to reap bounty. If you have a …
Friday, November 25, 2011
One family began camping out at the Brighton Best Buy on Wednesday morning.
Camping out on Black Friday has become sort of a tradition for the Prossen family from Perry. This year, the tradition began at the Brighton Best Buy at 10 a.m. Wednesday morning. "It's like tailgating," Tyler Prossen said. "We have our Thanksgiving on Friday, so it's not like we miss anything. We have the same thing, just a day later." For the six years he has been camping for Black Friday, Prossen said he has always camped at Best Buy because it is the safest. "It's just waiting," he said. "You get here, get your spot, and then they hand out tickets. So you get what you came here for and don't have to worry about getting trampled." Prossen said his family first went to the Okemos Best Buy, but there were already six tents up. In Brighton…
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