[cron]

Here we go again.....Let's see who can predict the future the best in our 2009 edition of this discussion

[crimson]

Here we go again.....Let's see who can predict the future the best in our 2008 edition of this discussion

I predict an edit in the OP










As for Black Friday 2009, 24" lcd monitors for $100-150

[cron]

i don't know what you're talking about...hehe

[cron]

I think this might finally be the breakthrough year for HDTVs. Plasma prices have dropped right through the floor.

Blu-ray players should easily be $100.

I can't see laptops going much cheaper. Probably upgraded specs.

[kas]

Unless the oversea producers of consumer goods just want to keep factories humming, I predict a bleak Black Friday and Holiday season. Perhaps Congress could pay folks to go out to shop. So far this year, the trend for many is to cut back on spending and hope the economy gets better.

[kar522]

Possible snow...

Actually I have no clue...

Maybe with the economy as it it, there will be more deals to get for the few dollars available. I imagine the mass merchandisers will do best...

[kas]

Survey said, 1 out of 3 plan to spend less on Halloween. Also 46.5% plan to buy less candy.

[kas]

It seems folks in Bentonville want to strike early and low ball the competition.

Wal-Mart supersizes holiday toy program
Retailer offering 100 toys for $10 each through the Christmas season

This year, Wal-Mart Stores Inc is supersizing its $10 holiday toy offering.

Last October, the world's biggest retailer cut its prices and began selling 10 popular toys for $10 each in its U.S. Walmart stores to win sales from early bargain hunting holiday shoppers.

This year, the retailer has ramped up the program and is offering more than 100 toys, including Barbie dolls and board games, for $10 each, throughout the Christmas shopping season.

The $10 assortment includes newly introduced toys, such as certain Transformers action figures and a Play-Doh burger builder set, as well as existing items, such as Monopoly and Connect 4, whose prices have been cut 20 percent to 50 percent.

"What we learned from last holiday was that price mattered more than ever," said Laura Phillips, the retailer's vice president of toys.

That is expected to be the case again this year as the retailer surveyed shoppers and found the No. 1 priority for mothers this holiday season is finding gifts that fit their budget, Phillips said.

The year-end holiday season is a crucial one for U.S. retailers and can account for 25 percent to 40 percent of annual revenue. But last year's holiday season marked the worst in nearly 40 years by some measures and early forecasts for the 2009 holiday season call for sales to be anywhere from up 2 percent to down 1 percent.

But Wal-Mart has been gaining market share amid the recession as shoppers seek out low prices on everything from food to paper towels to popular electronics.

Last year, Phillips said Wal-Mart sold out of its $10 toys because it underestimated how early its shoppers were in its stores, buying gifts for Christmas.

"About 70 percent of our Wal-Mart shoppers start their holiday toy shopping before Halloween and, in fact, about 20 percent finish by Halloween," she said.

So Wal-Mart spent the past year working with toy makers, such as Mattel Inc and Hasbro Inc to develop new toys or cut prices on existing items so it could stock a much wider selection of $10 offerings this year.

It said the $10 toy offering is the first of several programs it will announce in the next 12 weeks leading up to Christmas "to bring added savings" to shoppers.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33086394/ns/business-retail/

[kar522]

It seems folks in Bentonville want to strike early and low ball the competition.

Wal-Mart supersizes holiday toy program
Retailer offering 100 toys for $10 each through the Christmas season

I saw some of those toys today...I've found nicer ones @ Dollar General/Big Lots for about half the price...

[catfishhunters99]

1. Netbooks will be a big doorbuster for Best Buy. Look for something (probably an Acer with a Celeron) to be available under $200.
2. Practical will be a big push. The Home Depot might be more crowded than you expect, while the high end stores will see traffic slow.
3. Wal-Mart will crush, as folks try and squeeze their available dollars.

[cron]

Insignia NS-BRDVD3 Blu Ray player with 1080p and Netflix Live for $99.99 at Best Buy

with deals like that, you have to wonder if blu-ray players will go under $100 now.

[tonka]

I would think netbook for 100-150
46 inch tv 400 or less?

and WM does that every year just publicity to drive even more people most of those 10 dollar toys retail at 10 or just above not really anything special.

Manager at staples said they would have a cheap laptop after rebates.
he did not see any TV's for so cal at least.

This post has been edited by tonka: 10-28-09, 2:09pm

[gametalent]

I think netbook would go for at least $200.
46" HDTV for $700.
Blu-ray player for $150.

[tonka]

I think WM will have a $99 blue ray that vizo that have is already 160 something.
i'll go out on a limb for 2010 BF and say blue ray for 19.99

This post has been edited by tonka: 10-29-09, 11:41pm

[kar522]

Possible snow...

Actually I have no clue...

Maybe with the economy as it it, there will be more deals to get for the few dollars available. I imagine the mass merchandisers will do best...

Looking good...at least weatherwise...

Fri Nov 27
Partly Cloudy

HIGH 39°
LOW 29°
CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION 20%

My DSD has asked to borrow a truck as she believes her SUV will be too small for her predicted haul...