Thanksgiving Day & Black Friday ads: store hours & highlights

longwood gardens holiday lights

Much more peaceful than Black Friday shopping........

Here is a round up of the big stores—their Black Friday and Thanksgiving store hours plus some deal highlights. Click on the link that says “Black Friday deal recap” if you want to see the full write up. This whole project is an enormous undertaking, so some pages may still be under construction. Please be patient—I’m working as quickly as I can to get this information out to you.

Bass Pro
Thanksgiving hours: 8 am to 6 pm
Highlights: same as Black Friday, I think. No other ad has been leaked.
Thanksgiving Day deal recap 

Black Friday hours: 6 am to 10 pm
Highlights: Doorbusters are 6 am to 11 am and in limited quantities with no rain checks. Many $10 items including zip fleece jackets, hoodies, dog beds and more.
Black Friday deal recap

 

Best Buy
Thanksgiving hours: Does not appear they will be open.
Highlights: No ads leaked yet!
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours: Opening at 5 am
Highlights: Whew–you name it, PS3, Xbox, smartphones, Blu Ray players…..it’s all on sale!
Black Friday deal recap

Big Lots
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Cabela’s
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

CVS
Thanksgiving hours: open
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Dick’s Sporting Goods
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Dollar General
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Express

Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours: Opening at midnight Thanksgiving night.
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

JCPenney

Black Friday hours: 4 am until (varies depending on location)

Highlights-72 page ad that includes several coupons to stack with most sales.

Black Friday deal recap.

Kmart
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Kohl’s-
Black Friday hours: Opening at midnight Thanksgiving night; open for 24 hours.
Highlights: an additional 20%-50% off for early birds, not sure of the exact hours yet.

$15 Kohl’s cash for every $50, instead of $10, no limit. The doorbusters are -Polaroid 7″ Touch Screen Android Tablet (w/ free accessory kit) $99.99
 and a Vivitar 12.1 MP high-definition digital video camcorder for $59.99

Black Friday deal recap

Shop Kohl’s online.

Lowe’s
Thanksgiving hours: Opening at midnight for Black Friday.
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours: Open at midnight Thursday to 10 pm Friday.
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Macy’s
Black Friday hours: open from midnight Thanksgiving night until 11 pm Black Friday.
Highlights: $10 off $25 coupon in store ad; 25% off entire site with free shipping-code & link in recap post.
Black Friday deal recap

Office Max
Thanksgiving hours: Beginning at 7 am EST, shop their Black Friday deals online.
Black Friday hours: Opening at 6 am.
Highlights: Laptops & other electronics like printers. Good Gift Card deal–$9 moneymaker.
Black Friday deal recap

Rite Aid
Thanksgiving hours: Opening 7 am to 6 pm most stores. Check locally.
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap-same as Black Friday, below.

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Sears
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours: opening at 4 am, most stores open until 10 or 11 pm, depending on mall.
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Staples
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights: Lots of electronics!
Black Friday deal recap

Shop online at Staples.

Target
Black Friday hours: opening at midnight on Thanksgiving day night.
Highlights: Doorbusters are while supplies last, overall I was disappointed in toy selection. Lots of good electronics though! Check out the recap.
Black Friday deal recap

ToysRUs

Opening at 9 pm Thanksgiving night. Deals available online Thanksgiving night, starting at 9.

Highlights: half price Leapsters, GC rebate with iPod Touch, 40% off some Transformers

Black Friday highlights & recap.

Shop online at Toys R Us

 

Walgreens
Thanksgiving hours:
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours:
Highlights:
Black Friday deal recap

Walmart
Thanksgiving hours: Opening at 10 pm
Highlights:
Thanksgiving Day deal recap

Black Friday hours: Opening Thursday at 10 pm, new BF doorbusters at midnight
Highlights: Lots of TVs & other electronics, toys & DVDs. Recap updated with link to ad.
Black Friday deal recap

Dollar General Black Friday ad & sales 2011

Coming soon!

 

Dollar General Christmas Toy Book + matchups!

Dollar General has just released it’s annual Christmas toy book and already I see some matchups.

Just this morning, I posted the $5 off $20 Cars 2 coupon–good for any Cars 2 toy from Mattel or Fisher Price. DG has an entire page devoted to such toys! There’s also a $5 off $25 for DG, just for this Saturday. Get $25 worth of Cars 2 toys, use the $5 off $25 first, then the $5 off $20, pay just $15!

cars 2 toys, cars 2 coupon

Click image to print your Cars 2 $5 off $20 coupon.

 

Also in the ad–

dollar general christmas sale, black friday dollar general

Woot!

So, I don’t see why we shouldn’t be able to stack these deals! If you buy $22 worth of Cars 2 Toys (as part of a $100 transaction) it would still be $20 after the 10% discount.

Energizer batteries are $3.50, $1 coupons in 10/2 inserts.

Lots of good things on sale, Disney, Barbie, Caterpillar trucks, Thomas and more! This is going to be really hard for me–supposedly I’m done Christmas shopping already!

Dollar General, new coupon policy

I really don’t want to blame all these changes on one tv show……..I find it hard to believe that one cable TV show wields that much power over America’s retailers. But then again, when you broadcast a show that spells out exactly how to misuse coupons, maybe it is why.

Dollar General is the newest store on the list to tighten the reins. Read the new policy here.

Some of the highlights, or should I call them lowlights?

No more overage. Well that sucks.

No more coupons for “free” items, regardless of source. This means, that even if they carry the $1 packs of Carefree/Stayfree and you have the coupon that says “free” on it, published by the manufacturer……..it’s a no-go. I also bet that if we find $1 items and match them with valid $1 coupons, they’ll be turned down.

If they don’t scan, or if the cashier can’t get a code to enter in the register, you’re SOL.

Well, you can read the rest. This will mean fewer trips to DG for me, for sure.

I really, really am beginning to loathe that TV show. I have yet to see one thing positive come out of it, except ratings for a network.