7 survival tips for Black Friday

Online and in-store will draw almost equal amounts of traffic, as 84 percent of respondents plan to shop in-store over the holiday weekend and 87 percent plan to do so online.

“I also look at how often an item goes on sale, how high the discount is, and if it’s an item that people would be willing to take less of a discount on”, Burkowski explained.

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It’s Black Friday, and the stores are ready with doorbuster specials, a beefed up workforce and extended hours. These deals don’t go in effect until Monday 11/28, but you can get a jump start by taking a look now so you’ll be all set on Monday.

Online shopping is overtaking the brick-and-mortar experience. Walmart has a Samsung Chromebook 3 for $119 on Black Friday, and we’re talking the better performance. Still, 51 percent of respondents in that survey said they will spend more in 2016 than in 2015.

Research firm Statista reports that online shopping has exploded in recent years.

The term “Cyber Monday” was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. Black Friday has adopted to the online spending trend as well, with online shoppers expected to spend $1.66 billion on Black Friday.

“But, it’s very different now compared to the past is that although those stores are closed their websites are open so a lot of these retailers … their websites will be running Thanksgiving day promotions”, she said.

“Before you make an online purchase “Take Five” and find out exactly who you are dealing with”. “Consumer fundamentals are strong and retail sales have been healthy this fall”. “The challenge for store-based retailers will likely be to leverage their distinctive advantages to stay relevant”. But since many shoppers already expect stores may run out of some heavily promoted items on Black Friday, it’s not clear whether omitting “while supplies last” from those ads would help keep customers cool-headed. Other competing retailers also moved up their opening business hours during that time.

According to Network World, Best Buy is slashing $50 off the Apple Watch Series 1 price as part of its Black Friday 2016 deals.

Smartphones, online shopping and “sneak peek” discounting has changed Black Friday from the door-bustin’ shopping brawl of old to a more toned-down event, reshaping how retailers appeal to consumers on the day that still serves as the annual kick-off for the holiday shopping season.

Retailers need to get consumers excited enough about the deals to rouse them from turkey and stuffing stupors without working them into such a frenzy someone gets hurt.

With the institution growing on this side of the pond it is expected that shoppers will shell out an enormous £3billion bagging Black Friday bargains.

We’ll show you where to find store maps and outline the online Walmart Black Friday 2016 deals that we know about.