What if I told you Black Friday comes a week early this year? What if I told you the best deals will come on Thanksgiving Day instead of Black Friday?
Amazon announces eight days of deep savings beginning on November 20. The last day of their savings spree will be Black Friday itself. Amazon says it will offer deals every five minutes. And Amazon doesn’t want Thanksgiving to be just about family, turkey and football. That’s because their biggest deals will be on Thanksgiving Day. Their biggest deals won’t go up after the stuffing and pumpkin pie, but at midnight on Thanksgiving Day. They will have ‘ten deals of the day’ and will have ten more on Black Friday. There will be lightning deals throughout that period. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, live in one of the 20 chosen major US cities and use the Prime Now app, then you’ll get free two hour delivery service. But that’s not all. From Thanksgiving Day until December 8, Amazon advertises over 150 lightning deals. But there’s a catch. These lightning deals will only available through Amazon Shopping Mobile Android, Apple smartphone apps, and Fire OS apps.
Obviously, things have changed. I remember a time when it was almost blasphemous to shop on Thanksgiving Day. And there was a time when Black Friday was more peaceful. That’s about the only good thing I can find about this week long Black Friday deal. Maybe some of these deep deals will calm savage beasts all over America. Maybe on Black Friday, instead of trampling each other to death, maybe some will stay at home and shop on Amazon. But I don’t like the way they’re shoving the holiday shopping season down our throats earlier. Granted, Amazon isn’t the only one doing so. Call me old fashioned, but Thanksgiving is supposed to be about family, friends, football, and fellowship. So I’m turning my computer devices off that day, unless I’m wishing someone a good holiday through social media. Will you shop on Thanksgiving Day, even if it’s online?