This year's hottest Black Friday[10] trend this year may be "pre-Black Friday," with retailers looking to jumpstart holiday shopping with early deals that will reward shoppers who think waiting until the end of November to start buying gifts is procrastinating. Dell already set the stage for this strategy with essentially six weeks of Black Friday sales, and now Walmart is joining it as an early bird.
Walmart has announced a pair of major shopping events in early November: The first "Deals for Days" sales[11] kick off on Wednesday, Nov. 4 and return on Saturday, Nov. 7, and the second begins the following Wednesday (Nov. 11) and repeats on Saturday, Nov. 14. While the first event features a couple of gaming laptops, the second offers several notebook and tablet deals to entice potential buyers. We've highlighted the best of these below, and expect a number of additional ones when Walmart's actual Black Friday ad drops.
$140 off [12]
If you have a gamer on your shopping list who enjoys PC games more than console titles, this deal (on Nov. 4 and Nov. 7) on an HP gaming laptop for under $500 may wind up being the best for your budget. It may not have all of the bells and whistles of pricier systems, but you still get an Intel Core i5-9300H