Black Friday 2009 Offers Great Deals

You can sure tell the holiday shopping season is getting closer, and that means Black Friday, the heaviest shopping day of the year, will soon be upon us. Retailers are taking no chances this year and have begun a carefully planned assault for those rarest of trophies, the 2009 Black Friday shopper's dollar. Deals are plentiful and even some fantastic deals can be found out there.

Black Friday Web Presence in 2009

Websites are all over the internet as retailers attempt to let shoppers know what's available. Just tap the words "Black Friday 2009" into your web browser and your computer screen will reveal the many websites touting the deals a shopper can find. BestBuy has just announced the Acer Aspire notebook computer for just $250.

Things Move Very Quickly on Black Friday

With shopper dollars in seemingly short supply this year due to the faltering economy, retailers are scrambling to compete and outdo each other. One fantastic buy is announced at Walmart and Amazon counters with an identical deal almost immediately. The Xbox 360 Arcade deals offered by each were almost identical. On top of that, the U.S. Amazon website offers new deals every two hours on items like Sony and Toshiba HDTV's. On one website, a Panasonic 42" 720p Plasma HDTV can be found at Kmart for just $549.99.

Battling For the Best Deals

Reported at 10% last week, unemployment is the Grinch in this year's Christmas story for retailers practically ensuring there will be less shoppers and less money circulating out there. Everyone is out there looking for the best deals and retailers are doing their dead-level best to make sure they get just that. Like generals battling one another, retailers are watching each others ads, carefully planning strategic pre-emptive strikes and posting retaliatory offers with even lower prices like generals. One web site offers up-to-the-minute deals offered by all the major retailers, complete with a menu listing all current Black Fridays ads, as well as a featured "Deal of the Day." More Black Friday information and deals here.

It's a recipe for one of the greatest Black Friday's ever or mass consumer riots. After all, the only thing separating these these voracious shoppers and the deals they want is a a pair of glass doors. Last year a Walmart employee was trampled to death in a day-after-Thanksgiving-doorbuster sale in Long Island, NY. The National Retail Federation has issued crowd control guidelines this year. Retailers are starting to offer deals three weeks before the official Black Friday shopping marathon, possibly in hopes of preventing another trampling disaster. This should be interesting holiday - be careful out there.