Black Friday

While incentives are not as plentiful as they typically are in December, you can still find some makes and models with good deals.

The retail trade group expects 2020 holiday sales to rise by between 3.6% and 5.2% year over year, as Americans spend less on travel and dining out.

As retailers look to prevent crowded stores during the pandemic, the holiday shopping season has grown longer.

While Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday typically grab the spotlight, Giving Tuesday, launched in 2012, may be the most significant of them all when it comes to actually making a difference.

The viral pandemic is accelerating a transformation of America’s holiday shopping season.

Holiday shoppers’ dramatic shift towards buying gifts online during the pandemic will challenge retailers as they try to drive both sales and profitability.

Black Friday online sales hit a new record this year as pandemic-wary Americans filled virtual carts instead of real ones

After months of slumping sales and businesses toppling into bankruptcy, Black Friday is offering a small beacon of hope

With the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to do holiday shopping online, scams are on the rise, experts say. The FBI’s Financial Crimes section expects cybercriminals to be preying on people looking for Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals....
People who are in tighter financial straits or otherwise stressed from the pandemic might be more likely to fall for such scams...

Traditional Black Friday hot spot, Best Buy, has gotten innovated to make sure in-person shoppers remain safe during the pandemic.

Traditional Black Friday hot spot, Best Buy, has gotten innovated to make sure in-person shoppers remain safe during the pandemic. NBC 5’s Larry Collins takes a look at what to expect this year.

How did Black Friday become America’s biggest shopping day of the year? It may surprise you to learn that the way it started had nothing to do with shopping at all. NBCLX’s Janine Doyon traced the history of Black Friday from its origins in 1960 to the nearly week-long celebration of consumerism it is today.

Black Friday is the nation’s biggest shopping day and its impact on the environment is equally huge. But it’s possible to take advantage of those giant Black Friday sales while keeping your environmental impact low. Here are three tips to make your discount shopping more environmentally-friendly.

After opening all your Black Friday orders, you can just gather all that packaging on the floor and take it to the recycling bin, right? Not so fast — it’s not that simple. NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado talked to a recycling expert about exactly what packaging can get recycled, and what is still destined for the landfill.

Allbirds and Haglofs are just a couple of the retailers making an effort to turn Black Friday into Green Friday by either giving back or scaling back on retail’s biggest shopping day. NBCLX’s Fernando Hurtado and NBC Bay Area reporter Chris Chmura explain why these retailers are thinking outside the box.

Black Friday’s discounts are deep, and so is its impact on the environment. Expedited shipping combined with packaging that’s not as recyclable as you may think and hasty purchasing decisions result in tons of waste and greenhouse gases. Here’s what you can do to help.

Texas Today visits the Kendra Scott Flagship store in Austin where they sit down with President, Tom Nolan, to chat about the changes they’ve made to keep customers safe ahead of their ‘Yellow Friday’ sale. MORE: KendraScott.com 

Black Friday has turned more into cyber November, and while you’re looking for those great deals, cyber attackers are also busy looking to snag your money and your information — more now than ever.

Like so many other things, Black Friday will look different this year, but Consumer Reports has some tips to help you score some great deals.

Gone are the days of waiting in big crowds for the best deals on Black Friday, at least for the 2020 shopping season.