Best Bets for Black Friday 2014
Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year, but it can also be the most stressful. Going out and waiting in lines without a plan can be a big mistake. We’ve gone through all of the best Black Friday deals at all of your favorite stores and chosen the best ones to make your life easier. A lot of these deals can be purchased online as well, so grab them while you can!
Here are some noteworthy black Friday deals:
Amazon launched “Eight Days of Black Friday deals” last Friday, including three “covered deals of the day” at midnight on Thanksgiving and then again on Friday. Deals include up to 45 percent off select Samsung TVs:
– Samsung 40-inch Smart 1080p LED TV for $328
– Samsung 55-inch Curved Smart 4K Ultra HD LED TV for $1,298.
Amazon Prime members receive 30 minutes of early access to select “lightning deals,” which can be added as often as every 10 minutes.
On Friday only, Amazon shoppers get up to 40 percent off TaylorMade golf driver clubs.
Amazon customers can shop and give to the charity of their choice. Through smile.amazon.com/blackfriday, Amazon will donate a portion of the purchase to your favorite charity.
In Barnes & Noble stores and online, customers can buy one and get 50 percent off on educational toys and games and 50 percent off gift books. The bookseller says it’s offering the “largest-of-its-kind” signed edition book collection for in-store customers with 500,000 signed editions from 100 leading authors at stores nationwide on Friday.
On Black Friday, if you spend more than $45, you will receive a Black Box full of stocking-stuffer items for the holidays (worth at least $45).
Best Buy’s Black Friday doorbusters started 5 p.m. on Thursday, and doors re-open at 8 a.m. on Friday. In-store only deals include a $199.99 Panasonic 50-inch LED HDTV. Blu-ray discs for $9.99 including “Maleficent” and “How to Train Your Dragon 2.”
Closed on Thanksgiving, BJ’s will open at 7 a.m. on Friday with deals including these through Sunday:
– $300 off $749.99 for Canon EOS Rebel T5 18MP 3” LCD Digital DSLR Camera Bundle with EF-S 18-55 mm IS II Lens, EF 75-300 III Lens, 16 GB SD, and bag
– $200 off $879.99 for Vizio 55-inch M-Series Smart 1080p LED HDTV.
Online men’s custom suit maker Black Lapel is offering a three-part sale this Friday, which will be the company’s first sale ever.
You can buy any suit and get a shirt free on Friday. On Saturday and Sunday, buy any two shirts and get any silk knit tie free.
Get $15 off an iTunes gift card bundle pack or buy an iPad air and get a $40 iTunes gift card.
Closed on Thanksgiving, but opening doors at 12:01 a.m. Black Friday, video game lovers get on Friday and Saturday only the Xbox One Assassin’s Creed Bundle for $329.99 (save $70), which includes digital copies of Assassin’s Creed Unity and Assassin’s Creed Black Flag.
– PlayStation 4 Limited Edition Bundle for $399 (save $100), which includes Grand Theft Auto V and a digital copy of The Last of Us Remastered.
– Super Mario 3D World Bundle for WiiU for $299.99, which includes the 32GB WiiU Deluxe Set, Super Mario 3D World and Nintendo Land video games.
– Save $30 off popular PlayStation 4 and Xbox One titles, such as The Evil Within, Sleeping Dogs and Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Home Depot will sell 99 cent poinsettias on Friday, normally about $8. The company says it will sell 3.75 million poinsettias this Black Friday.
Kohl’s is discounting toys, clothes, electronics and kitchenware. Shoppers can receive $15 Kohls cash for every $50 spent.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Lowe’s leaked its black Friday offers on Vine for the first time. You can view all of the Vine videos here. Deals include:
– GT 35-inch steel firepit 27404, for $39 from $63 to $95
– Studio Sync Speaker Shelf 631802, for $49.98 from $79.98
– SHOP-VAC 12-gallon 6.0 PEAK HP VAC 549713, for $39.98 from $99.98
– 6.5-foot Pre-Lit Color Changing LED Artificial Tree 585557 for $59 from $159.
Closed on Thanksgiving, customers can get emails on Thursday and Friday about specific online Black Friday deals for apparel, accessories, shoes and cosmetics.
Nordstrom’s “Like it to lower the price” allows customers to “control” the price by liking Instagram posts. If Nordstrom gets 25,000 likes, the company will lower the price of Ivanka Trump Hewerly Moto Boots by $90 for all customers starting Thursday, while supplies last.
In addition to electronics deals, RadioShack will match “any printed competitor’s price for any item on this page,” plus give customers an extra 10 percent off.
Here is the full list of amazing stores with amazing Black Friday Deals: