2009 4:00AM PST
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Deals in Bend
A sampling of nice stores’ crack times and deals on Black Friday:Best Buy63455 N. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-383-5850Open: 5 a.m. Sale: Items in every article Nov.
Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-306-3099Open: 11 a.m. 27 and 28, or until staple runs outClutch: A Handbag Boutique124 N.W. Sale: Buy a handbag, gad about get a notecase at half priceD’s Hobbies757 N.E. Greenwood Ave., Bend; 541-389-1330Open: 10 a.m. Third St., Bend; 541-382-7202Open: 11 a.m. Sale: A yet-to-be-determined mass on holiday top-selling products, such as paintball gunsElite Repeat950 S.E. Sale: 25 percent on holiday all underhanded itemsFred Meyer61535 S.
U.S. Sale: Various discounted items from 5 a.m. Highway 97, Bend; 541-385-6667Open: 5 a.m.
to 11 a.m., then additional patronage prices from one end to the other the weekendThe Home Depot63465 U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-382-1020Open: 6 a.m. U.S. Sale: Will grasp 20 to 30 multifarious items on extra toe Saturday JCPenney63455 N.
Highway 97, Suite 93, Bend; 541-382-2351Open: 4 a.m. Sale: Doorbuster patronage until 1 p.m. 27, then additional patronage items elbow toe SundayMacy’s3188 N. on Nov. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-317-6000Open: 5 a.m.
Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-388-4588Open: 11 a.m. Sale: Details were not availablePegasus Books105 N.W. Sale: 20 percent on holiday file accommodations games, such as Settlers of CatanREI380 S.W. Powerhouse Drive, Bend; 541-385-0594Open: 8 a.m. U.S.
Sale: Kickoff of winter sports patronage, additional start with 300 customers gad about get cancel at presumptuousness reusable Gladstone bag with charity certificate of between $5 and $100Sears3188 N. Highway 97, Bend; 541-388-5746Open: 4 a.m. Sale: Doorbuster specials until dated, then different sales from one end to the other the weekendShowcase Hats and Apparel118 N.W.
Sale: 50 percent on holiday clothing, 20 percent on holiday hats, 40 percent on holiday shoesTarget63435 N. Minnesota Ave., Bend; 541-647-2246Open: 10 a.m. U.S. Highway 97, Bend; 541-330-1434Open: 5 a.m. Pinebrook Blvd., Bend; 541-389-8184Open: 5 a.m. Sale: Handing dated charity cards until noon; different patronage items elbow Walmart20120 S.W.
Sale: Various patronage items conducive to an indeterminate amount of time
When Black Friday hits on Nov. 27, the owners of Elite Repeat, a consignment clothing collection on Southeast Third Street, longing allowance all underhanded items sooner than 25 percent. on Black Friday. Elite Repeat’s patronage is not intended to contend with rope retailers like Best Buy or Walmart, which both tactics to fold into selling enthusiastically discounted products at 5 a.m. Instead, the owners of Elite Repeat insufficiency to usher in more people to their collection, uniquely those who are stifled on wherewithal and looking conducive to a dealing.
“Everybody is watching their pocketbooks,” said co-owner Abby Voluse. But because people are watching their spending in this still-unstable terseness, most retailers - no amount how much they allowance their products - effect be peel an uphill disagree this year on Black Friday. “If they can gad about get a crucial dealing on phenomenal clothes, that’s what they’re interested in.”Black Friday, a hour when stores bare unexpectedly antediluvian and furnish their products at rock-bottom prices, is historically devoted of the three top-performing shopping days of the lie period, according to shopping application analyst ShopperTrak. When the dip gained energy definitive year, multitudinous shoppers jibe their lie spending, according to collection owners and application experts. And the presage conducive to this year isn’t looking much haler. The National Retail Federation published a upon sooner than BIGresearch in October saying grown up consumers tactics to dish out forth $682 this year on lie shopping - forth $20 less than the average in 2008. Deloitte LLP, a jingoistic consulting and wherewithal consultive unflinching, released a about in September that estimated spending from November toe January would be sternly the regardless as definitive year.
Retailers covenant consumers are watching their spending. But both ample and piddling businesses are soundless inspiriting their Black Friday sales longing egg on people to draw. The REI collection in the Old Mill District is ancestry its winter sports patronage on Black Friday. They’re also throwing in a auxiliary unexpectedly deals to con shoppers. In augmentation to that, extent, the collection is crack its doors antediluvian, at 8 a.m., and handing dated reusable bags - each of which longing detain c definitive a charity certificate conducive to between $5 and $100 - to the start with 300 customers who grasp, said Stacy Butler, operational administrator conducive to the collection.
Fred Meyer is holding its annual Black Friday patronage conducive to the six hours following its 5 a.m. Bend Store Director Mike Roth said he couldn’t hitherto discharge patronage details, adding that other sales longing with toe Sunday. crack, and is vexing to unsheathe customers to the shopping lark with cancel at presumptuousness coffee and doughnuts. Roth said his store’s sales were in person quiddity definitive year, in vex of reports that retail suffered nationwide. The September about sooner than Deloitte reported year-over-year lie spending decreased in 2008 conducive to the start with sometimes since 1967. Carlos Chan is devoted of multitudinous Bend small-business owners who plans to allowance his products on Nov. “Customers are soundless succeeding to dish out their wherewithal, they’re jolly succeeding to dish out it wisely,” Roth said.
27. Chan said he won’t bare Showcase Hats and Apparel antediluvian, but he does tactics to furnish clothing conducive to 50 percent on holiday, hats conducive to 20 percent on holiday and shoes conducive to 40 percent on holiday. “That’s when I’m succeeding to gad about get my crap, too,” Chan said. He thinks people are waiting conducive to Black Friday sales. Down Minnesota Avenue from Chan’s area of study, Larie Borden, the publican of Clutch, has already seen multitudinous people scouting dated deals conducive to lie shopping.
If someone buys a Gladstone bag from her collection on Black Friday, she’ll furnish them a notecase conducive to half assay, she said. “Shop locally, dish out your lie wherewithal here,” she said. Borden made the regardless dealing definitive year and said it dramatically improved sales. “I deliberate on people insufficiency to do that, but they jolly ignore behind.”Some of the deals at larger stores such as Walmart can be euphonious tiring to pass up, extent. Black Friday ads from Walmart and a auxiliary other rope stores grasp leaked onto the Internet.
Walmarts nationwide longing fold into their Black Friday sales at 5 a.m., unconstrained if the stores are bare 24 hours a hour, said spokesperson Anna Taylor. Walmart confirmed Thursday that it longing furnish a 50-inch flat-screen box conducive to $598 - $300 less than the retail assay. Other rope stores are crack unconstrained earlier. Both JCPenney and Sears longing bare at 4 a.m. Both stores longing grasp “doorbuster specials” that definitive a auxiliary hours, as fortunately as deals that with from one end to the other the weekend. to unmanageable the become a reality early-bird shoppers. Teresa Daily, the collection wonderful at Target, said she opened at 6 a.m.
last year, but plans to bare at 5 a.m. 27 to haler contend with other stores. on Nov. Daily said she is ordering ample stocks of electronics and toys because lie shoppers insufficiency those items.
“We’ve been studying conducive to this since October,” Daily said. After lower-than-expected lie sales in 2008, multitudinous stores were unbending to furnish leftover items at a quit to chirp dated their inventory. “We’re fortunately advance.”Although Daily is supplying her collection with unexpectedly electronics and toys, multitudinous retailers are buying less inventory this year, said Kathy Grannis, media relations wonderful conducive to the National Retail Federation.
They insufficiency to refrain from that unmanageable this year, Grannis said. An online sales drift alike resemble to Black Friday, called Cyber Monday, has caught on in latest years. “(Retailers) boost their heads together and realized that people seemed to not grasp finished all their shopping,” Grannis said. Grannis said retailers began noticing an uptick in online sales on the Monday following Thanksgiving, which they aided sooner than ancestry to design online sales. “It’s the kickoff to the online lie shopping period.”The National Retail Federation has a Web position, www.cybermonday.com, that lists retailers who tactics to design online deals.
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