Walmart Black Friday Store Hours 2012: Opening And Closing Times For Shopping

Stefan Rood, 20, folds blankets as he cleans out his tent outside a Best Buy Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)

The Wall Street Journal reports:

After crunching two to six years' worth of pricing data for a number of typical holiday gifts, The Wall Street Journal has turned up the best times to go deal hunting ? and they almost never involve standing in the freezing cold all night.

It turns out that gifts from Barbie dolls to watches to blenders are often priced below Black Friday levels at various times throughout the year, even during the holiday season, and their prices follow different trajectories as the remaining shopping days tick down.

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CNBC's Robert Frank writes:

A survey from Spectrem Group showed that 83 percent of millionaires do not plan to go shopping at all on Black Friday.

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Black Friday shoppers wait outside of Best Buy on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, in Lynchburg, Va. (AP Photo/News & Daily Advance, Sam O'Keefe)

Reuters reports:

More than 50 percent of consumers will do some form of "show-rooming" during the Black Friday weekend, said Kevin Sterneckert, vice president of retail research at Gartner Group.

"They will buy things because they looked at it in the store. They will touch and feel what they are interested in and then buy it online on Monday, either from the same retailer or a different online retailer," Sterneckert said.

Read the full story here.

Customers wait in line for doorbuster deals at the Kmart on Addison Street in Chicago on Thanksgiving Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. Kmart was the first major retailer nationwide to kick off pre-Black Friday shopping on Thanksgiving morning at 6 a.m. (John Konstantaras/AP Images for Kmart)

Best Buy will be opening its doors to Black Friday shoppers at 12 a.m. on Friday. The world?s largest consumer-electronics retailer is resisting the "Thanksgiving Creep" that has led many retailers, like Walmart, to kick off Black Friday earlier than ever on Thanksgiving Day.

Some Best Buy shoppers, like Tony Avitar, are so excited for Black Friday they got in line one week in advance of the sale.

Best Buy will be open until 10 p.m. on Black Friday.

Here's a look at Best Buy's Black Friday deals.

Target will open its doors to Black Friday shoppers at 9 p.m. on Thanksgiving.

The discounter's decision to open stores three hours earlier than last year caused some controversy among employees. Petitions to stop the "Thanksgiving Creep" have garnered hundreds of thousands of signatures on Change.org. Target is one of a number of retailers, including Walmart and Toys R Us, that are open on Thanksgiving.

Target will be open until 11 p.m. on Black Friday.

To see Target's Black Friday deals, click here.

Shoppers wait in line for the 8 p.m. opening of the Times Square Toys-R-Us store in the lead-up to Black Friday, November 22, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

HuffPost's Alice Hines reports from Dallas, Texas:

On Thanksgiving afternoon, as freshly stuffed Americans prepared for the shopping bacchanal known as Black Friday, hundreds of Walmart workers readied themselves for a wholly different experience: joining strikes and labor actions planned for the next two days at some 1,000 Walmart stores around the country.

Here in Dallas, as well as in Miami and the San Francisco area, Walmart employees were planning to walk off work and demonstrate early Thursday evening, as shoppers began to arrive in pursuit of the ultra-cheap deals known as doorbusters. The strikers sought to protest low wages and a lack of benefits, while also challenging what they allege has been a pattern of Walmart's retaliation against workers who try to organize. They hoped to use the Black Friday spotlight to sway shoppers to their side.

"It's a question of education," said Josue Mata, a maintenance worker at Walmart in Wheatland, Texas, and a member of OUR Walmart, the labor group that is coordinating the strikes. "We have to show people that we're not just a crazy bunch of protesters."

Read the full story here.

Black Friday may be famous for its door busting deals, but it?s infamous for the ridiculous and sometimes terrifying things people do on the big day to save big bucks. From the waffle maker riot that broke out near Little Rock, Arkansas to the pepper spray incident in Los Angeles, Calif. last year?s Black Friday was filled with horror stories and nightmares.

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Target is one of a number of retailers that plan to kick off the holiday shopping season on Thanksgiving Day. Target will be open to Black Friday shoppers at 9 p.m. Thursday night and then again at 4 a.m. on Black Friday.

Here's a look at Target's Black Friday deals.

Best Buy will open up its doors to customers at 12:00 a.m. on Friday.

You'll find deals on all kinds of electronics -- from televisions and computers, to gadgets and more.

Click here for a look at Best Buy's Black Friday deals.

Walmart will be open for business at 8 p.m. local time on Thanksgiving.

From tablets and toys to video games, Walmart is slashing prices on a wide variety of products for everyone on your list. This year's deals may be different depending on where you live. Click here to learn more about savings you can find close to you.

Click here to see Walmart's Black Friday deals.

HuffPost's Senior Science Editor David Freeman on the science behind Black Friday:

I'm not big on crowds, and I hate standing in line. Maybe that's why I find Black Friday so hard to fathom. I mean, I like bargains as much as the next guy. But unlike the 147 million people who the National Retail Federation expects to shop this Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, I'm not especially eager to spend the day sardined at the local hypermart just for a chance to save a buck on a Furby.

Is Black Friday really all about bargains? I suppose that's what most shoppers would say -- and what retailers would have us believe. But while I don't doubt that it's possible to save some green on Black Friday, researchers say the retailing riot that defines the day after Thanksgiving may be less about dollars than about basic psychology.

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If you've ever tried shopping on Black Friday, you know that everything about the experience suggests the activities of insane human beings.

You know what I mean: Setting your alarm clock -- on a day off of work! -- for the ungodly hours between when the bars close and the bagel shops open; waiting in long lines in the bleak, cold weather for the privilege of frittering away your hard-earned money; throwing items into your shopping cart so that you run up your bill in order to break the price barrier to get that free paper shredder that you don't even need; and, worst of all, dealing with swarming crowds, high tempers, rightfully exhausted employees and a casual disregard for your fellow man.

Why not stay home this year? There are plenty of ways to get your Black Friday shopping done from the comfort of your barcalounger or waterbed, if you know where to point your mouse. We've got a few tips here.

-- Jason Gilbert, HuffPost

If you'd like to take care of some business at the bank on Thanksgiving, you probably won't be able to do so, at least in person.

As Thanksgiving is a federal holiday, expect banks nationwide to be closed on Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012. That goes for all of the major banks, including TD Bank, which only closes four days the entire year.

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It seems that every year, Thanksgiving Day gets a little more commercial.

It's not without controversy, but in part due to Walmart's push for even more hours this Thanksgiving, opening at 8 p.m., a number of other retailers are following suit.

In fact, according to About.com, some 200 retailers will have Thanksgiving Day hours this year.

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Here's what you need to know about mail service for Thanksgiving 2012 and the day after Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Day, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2012, is an official holiday, according to the United States Postal Service (USPS), so mail will not be delivered on that day.

Mail service from the USPS will resume on Friday, Nov. 23, 2012, the day after Thanksgiving.

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For many of the country?s largest retailers, Black Friday could not come soon enough.

Here?s a list of when retailers will kick off their Black Friday sales.

Holden Hanson is not taking any chances for Black Friday: He's going to Walmart on Wednesday to hide video games so other shoppers won't find them. On Thanksgiving itself, Hanson will eat his turkey dinner as a late breakfast.

All of this is designed to do one thing: Help him be among the first people in line at the big-box store in Spencer, Iowa, when it opens at 8 p.m. on Thursday.

Read the whole story here.

-- Catherine New, HuffPost

Mark your Calendar app, folks. If promotional material from Apple is any indication, the Cupertino firm will offer its annual Black Friday discount on some electronics and accessories.

In an email sent to customers Tuesday, the company teased a "one-day Apple shopping event [happening] this Friday, November 23." Apple's U.S. website says that that "event" will begin online at midnight on the U.S. West Coast (3 a.m. on the East Coast), with extended hours in brick-and-mortar Apple Stores around the country on Friday.

Read the whole story here.

With practically every store under the sun promising you the best Black Friday deals, it's easy to feel overwhelmed. Here's a roundup of some of the most competitive deals retailers are offering come Thanksgiving.

Walmart, the world?s largest retailer, is also in the running for the world?s largest advertising circular.

The big box retailer has released its 45-page ad insert detailing its Black Friday deals on everything from iPads to bicycles. Walmart plans on opening its doors at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day and will also offer deals online throughout the holiday.

To see Walmart's circular, click here.

With all the Black Friday ad leaks and sneak peeks we've unearthed in the past few weeks, this season's shopping extravaganza is looking ripe with deals and discounts for all. But even though many product categories will see new all-time low prices, not everything will be a good purchase on Black Friday. In some cases, you would be better off skipping certain deals and waiting for a better offer later on in the coming year.

Here are 10 items that are not worth buying this Black Friday.

Shopping comes before turkey and stuffing for shoppers like Tony Avitar.

Avitar and his family have been camping out outside of the Best Buy in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio since November 15, NewsChannel5 reports. This is the eighth year Avitar has spent the week before Thanksgiving outside of a store with hopes of scoring holiday shopping deals.

Read the whole story here.

WATCH:

Walmart is facing backlash over its decision to open its doors on Thanksgiving.

More than 30,000 people have signed an online petition on MoveOn.org asking Walmart not to make its employees work on Thanksgiving. Mary Pat Tifft, a Walmart associate of 24 years, started the petition after the retailer's announcement that it would open stores at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, according to a press release. Walmart opened at 10 p.m. last Thanksgiving.

Read the whole story here.

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