Best Buy on Black Friday (Photo : Reuters/Stephen Lam)
In the past, Black Friday has usually been the United States' biggest shopping day of the year, although many retail chains are already rolling out some of the best deals of the pre-Christmas shopping season. Retail giants including Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and Amazon are offering big sales on hot tech products including wearables, smartphones, gaming consoles and video games, eBook readers tablets, laptops, and HDTVs.
Wearables
Target's Apple Watch still starts at an undiscounted $349. However, shoppers who buy the wrist wearable between November 26 and 28 will get a free $100 gift card, which is basically a price slash of a hundred bucks.
Gaming
Many options are available to help mark off gaming items on holiday wish lists. Microsoft has already put the Xbox One on sale for $299.
The OS giant is also knocking $50 off its Xbox One Elite Bundle and "Halo 5: Guardians" Bundle. They are both now $449.
Walmart is also offering $28 copies (46 percent off regular price) of "Madden NFL 16" for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Xbox 360.
eBooks, Tablets, and Laptops
Amazon has made it easier to shop for people with a voracious appetite for reading. Its Kindle Paperwhite eBook reader will go on sale at $100, while the Kindle for Kids Bundle will be discounted $30.
Several price cuts on tablet computers will also be available around Black Friday. Starting on November 25, Wednesday at 9 p.m. ET, Microsoft will roll-out up to $150 discounts on the Surface Pro 3 tablet-laptop hybrid (list price $700), according to PC Mag.
Meanwhile, Target's deal on the 9.7-inch Samsung Galaxy tablet will include a price tag of about $230 (list price around $300), and will include a stocking-stuffer $30 gift card. The entry-level Polaroid Quad-Core Tablet will be a rock-bottom $50.
Staples' Black Friday deals will launch on Thanksgiving Day, and include the Toshiba i3 notebook with Microsoft's Windows 10. Its price has been slashed from $499 to $299.
Televisions
Finally, tons of TVs will go on sale for Black Friday. Best Buy will be open from 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving to 1 a.m. on Friday. Its 4K 60-inch Samsung TV will have a $800 price point (regularly $1,500). Meanwhile, the Toshiba 49-inch HDTV will be slashed about 65 percent to a super-low $150, according to ABC News.
Here is an update for Black Friday 2015 shopping:
