Walmart announced its plans for Black Friday sales this year in anticipation of a holiday season unlike any we’ve seen before as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. The occasion involves a “reinvented Black Friday experience” with sales extended over the course of three different events. There will also be, of course, enhanced safety measures.
Each sale, which Walmart is calling Black Friday Deals for Days, will begin online at Walmart.com and continue in stores. The first event begins way before Thanksgiving on November 4 at 7 p.m., when customers will get sales on toys, electronics, and home products like $5 hotel-style bath towels. The sales continue in stores on November 7 at 5 p.m. with great deals like a Magic Bullet Blender for $15; new sales will also go live online that day.
Its second event will begin online November 11 (also at 7 p.m.) with new deals in stores November 14 with discounts on apparel, home, and more. Finally, it will offer a sale online on November 25 with new deals in stores November 27, AKA Black Friday. You can find full details on sale times and deals on Walmart’s post here.
Additionally, Walmart stores will have special safety measures in stores for these Black Friday events, opening stores at 5 a.m. local time on these days and having customers enter into a single-file, straight line to enter the store. Store associates will hand out sanitized shopping carts to customers, help with social distancing, and customers will be reminded to wear a mask. Also new this year? Customers will also be able to pick up their online Black Friday order by contact-free, curbside pickup service. You can read more about the safety measures here.
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