With the infamous Black Friday less than a week away, details about special offers from Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT) are beginning to leak out. Some Black Friday ad websites such as BFAds.net are starting to post sale items from actual ads for this Friday's massive retail sales day. Wal-Mart's ads are generally so secretive that it can be hard to know what the chain will feature on sale, even as retailers like Target, J.C. Penneys and Kohl's have their Black Friday ads scanned and posted all over the web long before the day arrives.
With Wal-Mart recently dropping hints for a $99 laptop computer and other sale items, the chain said late last week that it will unveil "extraordinary values" on a handful of items on its online store Thanksgiving day, a day before Black Friday. Wal-Mart stated that this strategy is a first in its history.
Wal-Mart said it plans to announce more than 70 "Black Friday" values this Thanksgiving holiday in ad circulars in addition to eight additional items that will be available only at stores from 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. this coming Friday. Those "additional items" are probably $14 DVD players, $69 Nintendo DS game systems and $799 plasma TVs -- though these are just my guesses.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
11-20-2006 @ 2:38PM
Jack said...
Most of Walmart's promotional stuff sold the day after Thanksgiving is bottom of the barrow junk made in the darkest parts of China. There is no quality control there and you would be lucky if any of their promotional electronic garbage didn't blow up when plugged in. Sure you can stand in line for an hour to return or exchange the junk. Now that sounds like a hoot!
11-20-2006 @ 8:52PM
Jack Schneider said...
This is going to be a black Friday alright. With no layaway Why would the disenfranchise shop at Wal-mart when they can go down the street to Best Buy where they can collect points for purchases. I am willing to bet the farm that layaway will return before Dec 1st of 2006. The sales of high ticket items will be a train wreck on blitz day this will prove that walmart management should fire the liberal elite that work for them and hire people who can live on 25K a year. Who can make decision base on experience not base on the business school at Harvard or Yale. As a stock holder they have made several decisions in the last couple years I am sure Sam Walton is rolling over in his grave. thank you for listening.
11-20-2006 @ 9:52PM
David said...
I caught a Wal Mart spokesman (or woman, I don't recall) hinting around at a ONE HUNDRED and 99 dollar laptop recently. I think I would trust a used 4 year old laptop in usable condition from a pawn shop more than I would a brand new $99 one from anybody, Wal-Mart, Best Buy...whoever. Heck, Windows XP costs more than $99! Unless they skip Windows and go Linux...hmmmmmmmmm?
11-27-2006 @ 7:25PM
John Jackson said...
I can't see how online shopping for big stores like walmart will have anything left for the Internet. I like smaller online stores. you get more of a personal touch.