Thanksgiving Day Sales
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Seasoned Pros at this other Holiday Contact Sport
They've prepared and many have been doing this for a few seasons
See what motivates the all-stars at this "other" holiday contact sport, Christmas shopping. Find out what preparatory steps these shoppers have taken, lessons they've learned from seasons past and what the prospects look like for their game today.In 2012, Thanksgiving Day is November 22, 2011 in the USA (October 8, 2012 in Canada)
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Where are the best Thanksgiving Weekend Sales?
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Where is YOUR favorite store to kick off your holiday shopping at? Traditionally, where have you found the best deals? Let us know here by either adding your link or voting your favorite up if its already listed.
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Thanksgiving Means Different Things To Different People
Food, Spirituality, Family, Tradition, American Football, Shopping and more..
Thanksgiving is a uniquely American holiday, even though the Canadians celebrate it as well. This holiday means many different things to different people. Most of us are excited about a long holiday weekend off: Thanksgiving Thursday, usually the Friday after Thanksgiving (Black Friday), and then the weekend after for the Monday through Friday workers. Thanksgiving in the US usually means an elaborate meal and family get-together. Many people still practice the spirituality that was more inherent in earlier incarnations of this day of thanks. American football fans enjoy big games. Shoppers can obviously rejoice. Here are a few other pages on Thanksgiving - all put together by my fellow Squidoo-ers. 
And Educated Shopper - Consumer Wisdom
Let just the turkey lose his head, while you keep yours this Thanksgiving
Man, I am just FULL of bad jokes this morning. Read a few very sane consumer tips to help you try and keep your head during this holiday shopping season.
Ben McConnel and Jackie Huba's 'Church of the Customer' blog focuses on marketing. It gives you the current news, as well as their views, along with some humourous insights..
How does this relate to shopping? Particularly shopping the Thanksgiving Day Sales and kicking off the holiday shopping season? It helps you pick out the real deals from the hype and scam when you're aware of the types of campaigns that are in vogue now, along with what the expected consumer response will be.
McConnell and Huba just post some great truisms too sometimes! For example, take their comparison of hype vs. excitement. Hype is sales driven: Excitement is value driven. Hype is overuse of adverbs: Excitement is adverb free.
There is some good, common-sense consumer information posted from time-to-time too, like their coverage of the "Credit Cardholders Bill of Rights Act". They informed us that retroactive rate hikes are prohibited unless you are 60 or more days delinquent, "pay to pay fees" (such as fees to pay online or on the phone) are prohibited, banks must give you 45 days notice before increasing your purchase interest rates, allows for payment within 21 days of the due date before a payment is considered late and many more INTERESTING FACTS for us consumers.
Thanksgiving Day Shopping
November 27, 2008 - Chicago, IL
Is this what you'll be doing for Thanksgiving 2012?
This Thanksgiving, will you be doing this?
Enjoying a nice meal with friends and family
Warm and cozy in the comfort of your home. Maybe you'll watch some American football or the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Maybe you'll sleep off that huge turkey dinner you ate. At any rate, you won't be shopping!
Forget shopping, I'm eating turkey!
There's more than enough time to shop until Christmas
For those of you who WON'T be shopping this Thanksgiving, I've put together another lens you may be more interested in, its all about how to cook the perfect Thanksgiving Turkey.Some Training Scenarios You Can Use For Defense
Get creative and protect your quarterback, your twinkie or your doorbuster item.
The Simple Life - Thanksgiving becoming a non-holiday holiday?
What is next for Thanksgiving Day Shopping?
This excellent blog post from Syracuse.com on Thanksgiving Day Retail Facts, History and Future Predictions offers some interesting grocery sales facts for the Thanksgiving holiday (provided by Nielsen) as well as some predictions on where the Thanksgiving Day shopping trend is headed. Originally only done by Big Lots and K-Mart, more and more stores are opening up on T-day. Syracuse.com even encouraged its readers to twitter line reports, sales items and funny stories to them. Good idea! Turkey Tweets
Recognizing the call of the wild shopping turkey
My Hand-Picked Thanksgiving Sales Directory!
Plan your strategy whether you're staying in or not.
PS - The deals won't be up until I get wind of them. This probably won't be 'til November. Feel free to check back in October though!
A few things to remember if you're overnighting for doorbuster sales
You'll be glad you thought of these Extreme Shopping strategies
People who spend the night outdoors in cold weather to save money are diehard shoppers, professionals. If you're going to do this for either Thanksgiving Day or Black Friday sales in 2010, there are a few things to keep in mind.Don't go alone - That's just silly. What are you going to do when you have to use the toilet? You'll lose your place if you haven't got a partner with you to hold your place in line! It might be kind of dangerous to just fall asleep surrounded by strangers as well: you should take shut-eye in turns with your diehard shopping buddy.
Bring along things to keep you warm and cuddly - this could be blankets, sleeping bags, portable heaters, coffee, balaklavas, snuggies, you name it.
What will you do with your blankies? - You want to be sure to stash your camping gear in time to make it for the mad dash when the store opens its doors! Have your buddy drive the car up about an hour before opening time so you can pack your travel essentials away in the car.
What about when nature calls? - Seriously! I've never spent the night outdoors waiting for doorbuster sales, so I really don't know what everyone does! I doubt that stores will provide port-o-potties (please someone, let me know if they DO though!). Going behind the bushes? OUT! Holding it? For 13 hours!? Devise a plan. Maybe this will involve a trip to a nearby fast food restaurant while your partner holds down the fort. Again, don't try this trick alone folks!!
Keeping up appearances - OK, I know people that spend the night on the sidewalk waiting for a doorbuster sale are absolute foaming-at-the-mouth lunatics, but don't you want to have nice sparkly teeth behind that foam? Don't forget to pack an overnight bag! Maybe bring some deodorant, a pre-pasted toothbrush, comb, razor for the guys, undereye concealer for the gals, change of underwear, you get the picture..
Think about your evening as you would a camping trip or tailgating party and you'll probably be successful!!!
For Diehard Shoppers
If you're going to wait overnight to take advantage of the best "doorbusters", try to have some fun and think of it as a camping trip or tailgating party!
Strength Training In Progress
Is this guy getting ready for Thanksgiving Day Sales or Black Friday Doorbuster shopping?
Wait In Comfort
Be prepared to make the dash when the doors open
Also, don't forget your Snuggie! This would be the ideal use for one!
Turkey Care Package
Maybe you can talk a family member into dropping off a care package from your family's Thanksgiving Dinner for you!
The Uniform of Champions
Make sure you have the proper clothing
Snuggie Hunter Green Fleece Blanket With Sleeves As Seen On TV
Amazon Price: (as of 02/12/2012)
The snuggie became a cult clothing item after television adverts that were originally ridiculed. Snuggies became a staple for pub crawls and I expect to see alot of them at Thanksgiving Extreme Shopping Campouts. The whole thing just fits.
Keep Yourself Fed Well
Don't starve yourself if you're waiting for the doorbusters
The coffee machine can plug in to your car's cigarette lighter for power. The cooker makes use of Instastart technology for matchless lighting and makes use of propane pressure control.
You'd hope your neighbor in line thought of this too!
Don't get there and realize you forgot about this!!
PS - the bathroom tissue can double for your runny nose if you get a cold out there!
Give us a little advice.
I'm sure I've left out something.
I've never done this doorbusting thing outside the comfort of my own home, so I'm hoping SOMEONE has some first-hand advice they'd like to give. Do you have any suggestions? Maybe you'd like to vote a particularly clever comment up. Go ahead!
A Yahoo! group on Thanksgiving Day Shopping
Strength Comes In Numbers
Online, Doorbuster or Not At All
What sort of a Thanksgiving shopper are you?
Do you hit the Thanksgiving Day sales? Online or in person? Do you have a dinner and then head straight out to spend Thanksgiving night on the streets awaiting Black Friday Doorbusters? Do you not shop at all? How come?
What is the best way to shop Thanksgiving Weekend Sales
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byIn person - camping out or fighting the crowd is the way to go!
Othercat says:
Our Walmart stays open on through Thanksgiving so we won't have to wait outside. But we do have to get there early because the lines in the store start forming at about 2 am!
btw, Walmart says they will be releasing their Black Friday sales to their facebook page first this year.
Posted October 27, 2010
lakern26 says:
My sister and I have always gone shopping on Black Friday. It can be a lot of fun! No matter how much we love the hustle and bustle, though, you'll never find us camping outside!
Posted August 07, 2009
Either online or not at all. Prices will drop.
artgoodman says:
I still don't understand the draw to go shopping on black friday. I would rather sleep in and enjoy leftovers.
Posted November 24, 2010
Its Not Worth Dying Over
Do you have any tips on shopping the Thanksgiving Day Sales?
Share them here!
I can't be everywhere at once. Try as I may to give everyone the most inclusive shopping deals, I can't get it all. Do you have any tips or inside info on this year's Thanksgiving Day Sales? Share them here!
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yeeinter May 25, 2011 @ 9:58 pm | delete
- Well thank you! It seems like Black Friday Super lens! thumbs up and Featuring it on my Black Friday lens, too! HAPPY SHOPPING!
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Jan 31, 2011 @ 12:02 pm | delete
- Nice lens.
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photofk3
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- Nice lens.
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- Cool lens!
Blessed by a Squid Angel today!
Best wishes,
Susie
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Have you ever been to a doorbuster sale?
And what did you think?
Here I am, the person who put this lens together and I've NEVER been to a doorbuster sale. All of this advice is how I WOULD prepare to spend the night on the sidewalk. My advice is probably pretty good because, although I'm not YOUR mother I am a mother and that just makes me infinitely knowledgeable about things like care packages and how to be prepared. Anyways, let us know if you've been to a pre-dawn doorbuster sale and what you thought about it.
PS - The closest I've got to one of these things was attending the IKEA Schaumburg's Christmas shopping special where the first 100 people in the door (dressed as a Christmas pressie) got a $100 IKEA gift card. Was I dressed as a gift? Bows and all! Was it cold? It was December in Chicago: of course it was freezing cold. What time did I go there - 2 hours before the doors opened, 7:00am. I thought I was early, but the line snaked its way all the way through the parking lot with well over 100 people by the time my friend and I arrived. Quizzing a few brave souls at the head of the line, we learned they'd been there since the previous afternoon. I just left, extremely amazed that people would subject themselves to that. Public humiliation is one thing, but I've gotta draw the line somewhere!
Check out my other lenses on holiday shopping.
From Thanksgiving Day Sales to Black Friday, Cyber Monday to After Christmas Sales
What did you think about the information presented here on Thanksgiving Day
Do you have a game plan now?
Please let me know what you thought about my contact-sport coverage of shopping the Thanksgiving Day Sales!
Contact Laura Schofield
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yeeinter May 31, 2011 @ 1:07 am | delete
- Wow - thanks so much!!! I'm already started with checking all the deals so hopefully I won't disappoint! Great Job Thnak You
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gravityx9
Nov 22, 2010 @ 1:26 pm | delete
- super lens! thumbs up and Featuring it on my Black Friday lens, too! HAPPY SHOPPING!
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MarkUpshaw
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- Great lens. Lens rolled this to my Thanksgiving, Prelude to Black Friday lens.
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Othercat
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- This is fantastic! Both informative and witty. I'll definitely be checking out centsible.net! Blessed
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- Wow - thanks so much!!! I'm already started with checking all the deals so hopefully I won't disappoint!
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Be Thankful For Your Fellow Thanksgiving Day Sale Shoppers And Their Tips
Pass the Thanksgiving doorbuster deal info along with that Cranberry Sauce
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