9 tips for shopping of black friday 2014

9 Tips for Shopping of Black Friday 2014 The fourth Thursday of November is Thanks-giving Day, a festival for American family reunion. Separated relatives will gather in this day to enjoy a Thanks-giving banquet with turkey as its main course. Another feature of Thanks-giving would be shopping. The Friday after Thanks-giving Day, 28th of November, is the Black Friday of 2014, which is the busiest day of the year for retail sector according to statistics of years.

That’s why all major American merchants are making sound preparation from the Black Friday, wrestling with their competitors to attract consumers by providing enormous promotions, scrambling for the largest market share in this biggest retail carnival in the whole year. Amazon, a magnate in retail industry, sold almost 200 products every second in average during that few days around Black Friday last year. The expected increasing market share must trigger merchants to release more tempting discounts. Target, for instant, has announced in advance to do a price match with all major retail stores.

Since Thanks-giving shopping spree is significant to retailers, almost every businesses will provide discount in large proportion during this period. There will be enormous information of promotions around the day. It may be as thick as a yellow pages to pile up all advertisement leaflets together. Many are confused about how to plan their schedule for Black Friday shopping.

Here are some tips for Black Friday shopping, wish you have a great harvest with a fair price in the Black Friday this year.

1. GET ONLINE! Many consumers may not be aware that a lot of businesses will provide the same proportion discounts of some products on their official website as in physical stores during the Black Friday. But the number of such discounted products is limited. Don't wanna queue outdoor? Wait and hunt ONLINE! 2. Earlier opening time! Black Thursday!

Traditionally, American merchants are closed on Thanks-giving Day and start promotions on Friday. However, there is a new tendency that the opening time is moving earlier in these 2 years, various merchants start promotions on Thursday even Wednesday.

3. Make a early plan, know your battle filed You may go to some interested stores in advance to figure out the positions of products you are hunting so as to save time and shop leisurely when the time comes. Different stores has different opening time on Black Friday usually, to be

efficient, you can set a schedule to do shopping one after another.

4. Do a price check online before making a shopping list There are circumstances that you spent a great deal of time and efforts to buy a product with a seemingly good discount, but later found out online that other merchant was giving a better offer. In order to avoid this from happening, you must read shopping guideline for hot-sale products ahead of time. Other than that, it’s necessary to do some price check online as some merchants may sale something expensive with false discount, even though there is numerous actually sound discount during Thanks-giving promotion.

5. Bring the advertisement of merchants with Black Friday promotion with you Remember to bring these leaflets, for your reference on one hand, for another hand, you may show leaflets of other merchants to demand price match for totally same products since a lot of merchants have “Best Price Guarantee” terms.

Different merchant has different terms, check here to find out a Price Match guides.

6. Choose those remote store to avoid crowd Some merchant has quit a few branches in a city like Walmart, those remote branches are better choices. Even it may take a longer drive, you may be more capable to buy something good with less crowd.

7. Call up your helpers if possible After a long queue to rush into the store, you may find another long queue for checkout when you get all products you want. It will save a lot of time if someone could help you queue up for checkout.

8. Set a flexible strategy All merchants provide a limited number of the hottest promoting products. If you are in the tail of the queue, you shall change the strategy to get other products you want lest you get nothing.

9. Pay with credit card if possible Many credit cards provide sound quality, return even price guarantees(credit card company will refund the price gap if the price of products you brought drop within 60 days) and they have attractive shopping cash back and new account incentive policies, go apply if you don’t have one.

Some online store like Fanrek.com will offer special discount for customers who use Credit Card to check out.