black friday

It looks like Best Buy in New Hartford will be opening up to Black Friday shoppers on Thanksgiving. Not at midnight, but 6PM. That's right, 6 o'clock.

The too-good-to-be-true bargains that abound on Black Friday may entice people to go holiday shopping, but they may lure in even more people interested in buying gifts for themselves.

In honor of the craziness stigma that goes hand-in-hand with the day we call Black Friday, here's an video spoof on Fun's 'Some Nights' that is sure to help soothe those frazzled shopping nerves.

Everyone knows that the day after Thanksgiving -- aka Black Friday -- is the busiest day of the year for shopping. But apparently three wild deer got a bit confused as to the date and showed up at Kohl's department store four days early.

Last year, Best Buy made a bunch of their customers angry when they were unable to fill the orders taken on Black Friday and Cyber Monday due to a lack of inventory. The company then failed to make its customers aware of this until just days before Christmas. Needless to say, Best Buy’s customer-service practices have not been held in very high regard ever since.

Holiday shoppers have been sharpening their skills for weeks in anticipation of all the Thanksgiving and Black Friday deals that are schedule to go down before most holiday dinners are even digested.

We are inching closer to the shopping extravaganza known as Black Friday, the day on which stores around the nation offer door-busting prices so low that otherwise-rational consumers take temporary leave of their senses, shake off their tryptophan haze and rush to the nearest mall at ungodly hours of the night. Or maybe not.

There is hardly any such thing as Black Friday anymore. With numerous retailers, like Walmart, opening their doors to holiday bargain addicts as early as 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving, other retailers must now either join the circus or risk missing out on frantic buyers with turkey hangovers and itchy spending fingers.

Did you go out last night for Black Friday shopping? I tend to avoid it because it can turn into chaos. This year that was the case in Rome. Oneida County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to the Wal Mart on Rome-Taberg Road early this morning where Black Friday shopping got a little out of hand.

Savvy buyers know Black Friday can be one of the best days of the year to find terrific bargains, but not all items are such great deals. In order to better your experience on that infamous shopping day, here are some things you may want to avoid purchasing, along with when you may be able to score the best deals on them ...

Now if you’re shopping this Black Friday, you know the key to getting the best deals is to be prepared. Do you know the top Black Friday Deals? Probably not, so lucky for you, we did some research.