Online shoppers have already seen a bounty of deals served up on Black Thursday and Black Friday.
But Cyber Monday brings with it a fresh crop of promotions, and thus offers incentive to fire up your tablet or your laptop once again and check some gifts off your shopping list. Here's what you need to know if you're planning to fill up a digital shopping cart on Monday:
*Good news for nighttime shoppers: Some of the deals are staggered this year. For anyone who sits in an office with an open floor plan, Cyber Monday can present a big conundrum: You don't want your cube mates (or, worse, your boss) to see you scrolling through screen after screen of knee-high leather boots or cashmere sweaters. But you worry if you wait until after the work day to pounce, items might be sold out. Lucky for you, some retailers are trying to adapt their promotions for your 9-to-5 schedule. Wal-Mart, for example, has announced its first ever 'Evening Edition' of Cyber Monday sales, a slate of fresh deals that will come online sometime Monday night. This batch of deals will include a Samsung 55-inch Ultra HD TV for $998 and the Hamilton Beach stand mixer for $24. Amazon.com, meanwhile, is adding new deals every 10 minutes throughout the day.
*Can't shop on Monday? Don't fret. We wrote last week about how Black Friday has bloated into several days, or even weeks, of discounts. The same is true of Cyber Monday: Many retailers are spreading the discounts over several days, in some cases even changing the name of the promotion to 'Cyber Week.' Amazon kicked off its Cyber Monday sales on Saturday and plans for eight days of sales. Some of the e-commerce giant's deals include: 50 percent off Leap Frog toys, 25 percent off Philips DOT Bluetooth Speakers, and a Nest Thermostat for $199. Wal-Mart, too, is dubbing its promotion 'Cyber Week,' and is promising 500 new online deals every day through Dec. 5. Target is also promoting a full 'Cyber Week' this year and promises discounts on more than 100,000 items from Nov. 30 through Dec. 6. Among the deals Target is touting is a KitchenAid stand mixer for $224.99, marked down from $449.99. The retailer is also offering 'buy one, get one 50 percent off' on My Little Pony and Star Wars toys.
*Buying electronics? This data can help you figure out where to go. Mobile shopping app ShopSavvy used its database of sales information to size up the deals this year. When it comes to electronics products, ShopSavvy found that Best Buy will have the most products on sale: 638, compared to 409 of such items at Target and 257 at Wal-Mart. Prefer to shop with whoever has the deepest discounts, not the greatest number of discounts? ShopSavvy found that Wal-Mart will have the biggest average discounts on computers, followed by Amazon and NewEgg.com; the biggest average discounts on TVs will be at Amazon, followed by Target and then Best Buy.
*You may have a little less shopping competition this year than last. The National Retail Federation surveyed shoppers over Thanksgiving weekend to ask whether they planned to shop on Cyber Monday. Fifty-two percent of respondents said they would shop on Monday, but that's down a bit from the 54.8 percent who did so last year.
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