Your Ultimate Black Friday Guide!

Ahh Thanksgiving, that wonderful time of year where you get together with your loved ones and slave in the kitchen to enjoy the biggest feast of the fall season! AND THAT'S NOT EVEN THE BEST PART!! IT'S BLACK FRIDAY PREP TIME!! If your family is one of the many Black Friday strategists, then we're here to make your life a little easier when discussing which stores to hit while enjoying your Thanksgiving turkey, or Tofurkey!! OUR OFFICIAL BLACK FRIDAY GUIDE IS HERE!! Now shop your little hearts out, considering this year you can go at pretty much any hour of the day (or night...) there is NO excuse!

Target: Famous for it's incredible sales, Target anchors this year's fight to get some of the $20 billion dollars estimated to be spent this Thanksgiving weekend! To win consumers over, EVERYONE'S FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CHAMP IS BACK!! With a brand new set of commercials, this Christmas-obsessed step ford wife is a good reminder that we need to get our strategies right if we're to make this holiday season the best one yet!
Besides her, Target's 2-day sale will feature amazing deals including flat screens from $200, laptops from $150, movies and video games from $10, and the X-Box from $140!! Check out your local ad for more details at Target.com and remember, STORES OPEN AT MIDNIGHT!!

The Wal-Mart ad for Black Friday. Hello savings!

Wal-Mart: A lot of Wal-Mart stores are opening at midnight. Some will even open at 10 pm! Sales that start at midnight include those on iPods, video games, HDTVs and cameras. Sales that start earlier include home, apparel, and toys. Houseware deals includes a Hamilton Beach Slow Cooker for $24!

On a tech note, According to the Christian Post, "Walmart plans to sell 46-inch HDTV sets for less than $400. Blu-ray players will be sold for less than $20." WOW!  Wal-Mart will also be featuring a Nintendo DS Lite for only $89!

Levi's: Some Levi's stores are opening at midnight! Take 40% off the entire store on Friday until 10 am, then 30% off the entire store for the rest of the day. For more info, check out the Levi's site.

Banana Republic: 54 BR stores will be open on Thanksgiving while 50 more will open at midnight! On Friday, get 40% off your purchase until 1 pm on and 25% off the remainder of the day. Also, tune in to their app, BR mobile 4U, to get personalized offers throughout the entire shopping season! Sign up here.

Macy's: The massive Macy's Black Friday advert weighs in at a whopping 88 pages! Many Macy's stores are opening at midnight and there is a Macy's WOW $10 off everything with a purchase of $25 or more until 1 pm on Friday. If you're shopping on Macys.com, use code THANKS to save an extra 15% or 10%!

Some Macy's highlights include;

• Extra 10% off dresses
• 50% off Sharper Image iPhone/iPod docking stations
• Get a free digital video camera with any fragrance purchase over $65! (Limit one) 
• $79.99 designer down coats (for the New York winter!) from DKNY, Laundry, Calvin Klein and more! 

Betsey Johnson: Attention Pink Ladies! For the first three hours enjoy 50% off sweaters! Throughout the entire day, it's 40% everything in store (except perfume). A few Betsey stores also open at midnight!

Express: For all who enjoy looking their best & those who love sparkle, this is great store to stop in all day long!  Select Express stores are opening doors at Midnight, however all city Express stores are staying open Thanksgiving Day as well! For those stores, they offer 40% off everything! Then on Black Friday be sure to take 40% off everything until noon and take 30% off everything after noon! Bestpart about Express? They aren't just offering these deals in store but also online as well!! If the store is too crowded don't get discouraged you can still get the percentage off online. Stay tuned for the store's Cyber Monday sale to take 30% off any online purchase + free shipping!

Here is one of the five ads H&M has put on display for Black Friday!

H&M: The first 100 people on line get a scratch-off that values up to $300!  Along with the scratch-off their sale for the day is extremely cheap! All dresses and sweaters are starting at only $5!! Pants and Kids Jackets are starting from $10 & all outerwear is starting from $20! This is definitely a go-to store if you have a lot of holiday parties to attend in December! Can you imagine all the outfits you can buy? & Better yet the amount of money you'll be saving!! In addition to the markdowns, over 100 pieces are being reduced 30-70% across the store! Select stores are evening taking 25% off the entire store until 10am!  H&Ms in city locations are opening at 7am with the exception of the 34th&Penn. store which will open up at 6am.  Otherwise if you're home for the weekend, your local H&M is opening its doors at 5am!

Michael Kors: Even though Kors stores are not opening up early, they are still offering amazing deals for the entire day! Select pieces of apparel will be offered at 50% the original price! & If you need accessories Michael Kors is having 40% off of certain accessories in store! Stop in and see if the piece you've had your eye on is on sale!

Urban Outfitters: This is a great store to hit early as they are 50% off all Sale items from 4am-10am!  That means you can walk out of the store that day with items costing as low as $6.99!  Most Urban Outfitters are opening at midnight so if you are home for Black Friday make sure to double check if your store is taking part in that.  Otherwise all New York stores are guaranteed to open doors at midnight! If you want a head start on what Sale Items you might want to purchase click here to see the list of women & men sale items!

Tory Burch: This rising star will also have her stores take part in Black Friday this year! Though store hours will not be extended they are offering a lot for the entire day! The offers go as follow:

• If you spend $150, you receive a free Tote!
• Spending $250, you receive 25% off entire purchase!
• Spending $350, you receive 50% off entire purchase & so on..

Though all items in the store will remain full price (besides Sale items obviously) the deals they are offering as of now are still very generous! & Think about it a FREE Tory Burch tote for your travels! You really can't get better than that!

Kohl's: Thursday 12am-1pm Friday Kohl's will have there annual early bird special on over 500 items. Save 20%-50% on select electronics, including a Polaroid touch screen Android tablet for $99.99 and a 12.1 MP Vivitar video camera for $179.99. Select sweaters will be $9.99! Toys from Fisher-Price, Tikes, Barbie, Hot Wheels, and more will be 50% off in store, too. You can even get a head start by going to the website and creating your list so that once the store opens you'll know exactly what you plan to purchase. Plus get $15 Kohl's cash for every $50 you spend.

Apple: The One-Day Apple Shopping Event is going down. Find deals on all the latest electronics from the iPad to the iPhone.

• iPad 2 Starting at $458 (Save $41 to $61)
• MacBook Pro Starting at $1098 (Save $101)
• iPod touch Starting at $178 (Save $21 to $41)

Bloomingdale's: For those high-end fashionistas save 25-40% of at the Big Brown Bag Sale on lots of varying merchandise. Customers will receive $15 in bMoney for every $100 spent with their Bloomingdale's card.

Forever 21: Shop the black Friday Pre-sale going on now on the Forever21.com as well as in store with up to 90% off (that’s right, 90% off!!) most merchandise. Finds items from denim as low as $9, lip gloss 4 for $5, and F21+ Denim for only $12.  

J. Crew: Stop by J.Crew & enjoy an exclusive 15% discount when you show your school ID (This applies to students and teachers). At J. Crew Factory stores save 60% Off Select Holiday Styles + Extra 40% Off Clearance Items! Use the code: YOURGIFT for 25% off $150 at regular J. Crew stores.

Topshop/Topman: 478 Broadway & Broome St (212-966-9555, topshop.com) Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 10am to 10pm, Sun 11 a.m.-9 p.m.
Iconic British retailer Topshop will be having it's Black Friday Fashion Dash! If you're one of the first 100 customers on Friday you'll receive a prize (shhh it's secret!) Friday and Saturday, be one of the first 50 customers to "check in" at Topshop on Facebook (Thanks iPhone!) at 8am, 12pm and 6pm and you'll win a piece of makeup! Spend $100 and receive a "bespoke bow headband," and enter for a chance to win a $500 spree with a Topshop personal shopper!! Additionally,  there will be 30 percent off selected items each day. Friday, selected knitwear is 30% off; Saturday, selected coats and jackets are 30% off; and on Sunday, accessories, shoes, lingerie and nightwear are all 30 percent off!! 11/25 to 11/27.

Theory: All locations, theory.com (10AM-8PM)
If you are LOVING Theysken's Theory then you'll love being able to get a discount on Friday!! Every Theory collection will be 30% off, INCLUDING THEYSKEN'S!! In-store AND online for those of you who can't make a Theory store!

Armani Exchange: All locations, armaniexchange.com. (7AM-10PM Friday)
Enjoy your chance to get some major savings at this Armani retailer, you'll get $50 off EVERY $150 spent! In-store only from 11/24 to 11/28!

Brooks Brothers: All locations, brooksbrothers.com (8AM-9PM)
America's first clothing retailer is close to celebrating 200 years of Manhattan business! And this Thanksgiving weekend enjoy 30% off the many collections! Alternating collections everyday Friday-Sunday, be sure to check out their FABULOUS new Flatiron store made to suit us-the college crowd!

Best Buy: This is the store everyone seems to wait in crazy lines for every year, and this year Best Buy sure gives you plenty of reasons to do so!! Deals include movies from 99 CENTS (good ones too!), Blue Ray players from $40, Large plasmas TV from $200, laptops from $150, and many MANY more amazing deals! Check out the full Black Friday Ad here! 

Good luck to you all with your Black Friday bargain hunting, we'll leave you with a few wise words from our own, Christmas Champ!