A woman at an LA Walmart decided that the best weapon to fight holiday shopping crowds yesterday was pepper spray, spraying the crowd in front of her in order to get an Xbox 360. From a shopper, Alejandra Seminario, on the scene: People started screaming, pulling and pushing each other, and then the whole area filled up with pepper spray" the Sylmar resident said. The pepper spray...
It's the most magical of shopping days in the United States, Black Friday 2011. The doors have swung wide, and the money has been spent, and now we want to know what you picked up for yourself or loved ones at the stores. Take a moment to vote in the poll below to let us know if you even went out into the craziness, and then let us know in the comments below what you scored for...
Happy Thanksgiving! Enough with the turkey and pumpkin pie and football games, now; it's time to put you to work! We need your help, oh ye of The Herd. The Internet has transformed Black Friday into Cyber Monday and beyond – it's a veritable cornucopia of retail deals out there, some already in progress, some starting in the wee hours of tomorrow morning, and all of them a mix of "...
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are almost here. And no doubt, some of you have been formulating your plan of attack for weeks. But what if you haven’t been spending time collecting mall maps, discount codes, and leaked sale info? Do you still have a chance of making off with a deal, even if you procrastinated? Yes, dear reader, you do — especially with that Android or iOS device in your...
Up on the housetop, snap, snap, snap! These Black Friday camera deals fall into your lap! Yes, it's that time of year again. Candy canes, gingerbread men, dradels and yamakas. But most importantly cameras. Cameras, glorious cameras! I've rounded up the best Black Friday deals on my top digital camera choices for the holiday season. I hope this list is helpful to those looking to buy a...
While other retailers have announced their Black Friday 2011 ads well in advance of the day so that shoppers can prepare, Apple, as they do with almost everything, has played their deals close to the vest. Unfortunately for them, but good for us, someone has leaked what we can expect to see on the day. 9to5 Mac obtained what appears to be a copy of the Black Friday ad from a trusted...
Welcome, welcome, welcome to a weekend of sales that are more than likely guaranteed to bleed your back accounts completely dry. Gamers take heed: there have been what can only be described as an epic butt load of new games to discover throughout the course of 2010 and 2011. These have been years of both quality and quantity. Because of that, the Black Friday sales set to kick off once...
Black Friday, i.e., the Friday after Thanksgiving, is widely considered the biggest shopping day of the year. While some of us sequester ourselves, nursing our turkey hangovers, countless others bang down the doors at real and virtual stores to buy gifts (or take advantage of the numerous sales to hook a long-desired product for themselves). But trying to navigate this heaping lot of...
Usually the computers you find on special for Black Friday are lackluster to say the least. Manufacturers will dump sub-par chips, RAM and smallish hard drives into a box and call it a “deal,” but it seems BJ’s Wholesale Club and Dell have teamed up for a system on Black Friday 2011 that even made us sit up and take notice. Available from November 25 to 27 (or while supplies last) at...
The various circulars for retailer’s Black Friday special deals are starting to leak out, and on that immediately caught several eyes was the price Staples will be charging for the BlackBerry PlayBook on the day. An anonymous tipster pointed us towards this listing on BFAds.net that shows the BlackBerry PlayBook will be marked down to $199 for the Black Friday sale from its normal...