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Walmart Confirms Black Friday Deals, Including $128 Blu-ray Player
by Shane Sturgeon on November 24, 2008 Category: Blu-ray

Walmart Confirms Three Days of Black Friday Savings

Retailer Officially Unveils Black Friday Specials and Walmart.com Introduces Unbelievable Thanksgiving Day Online Specials


BENTONVILLE, Ark., Nov. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Continuing its commitment to bring the best prices to customers through Operation Main Street, Walmart today posts online at Walmart.com (http://www.walmart.com/) its entire Black Friday advertising circular with incredible savings on hundreds of items to help its customers cut the cost of Christmas. In addition, Walmart.com today announces it will offer online specials on Thanksgiving Day.

In addition to its Black Friday specials, Walmart is guaranteeing customers the best prices with its Ad Match program, whereby its stores will match the price of any local competitor's printed ad for an identical product.

"Walmart is dedicated to being a low price advocate for our customers throughout the entire year, and our Black Friday specials are no exception," said John Fleming, chief merchandising officer for Walmart. "Our associates will be working hard all week to make sure our stores are ready to welcome shoppers seeking our unbeatable Black Friday prices."

Three Days of Black Friday, Starting ...

-- Online Thursday: On Thanksgiving Day, customers can visit Walmart.com (http://www.walmart.com/) to find online specials on many of the season's hottest items in electronics, toys and video games, with free shipping through its Site to Store program. While on the site Thursday, shoppers also can see Walmart's Black Friday specials available in stores the next day.

A few examples of the dozens of online only specials available Thanksgiving Day on Walmart.com include a Motorola Bluetooth Headset for less than $20 and the Playhut High School Musical Star Stage for $30.

-- In Stores Friday Morning: The biggest savings begin 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nov. 28. Walmart customers will find Black Friday only products, as advertised, across the store from $4 and $8 jeans, jackets and sleepwear to a Magnovox Blu-ray disc player at $128. The full list of savings that stretch across the store is available at Walmart.com (http://www.walmart.com/).

-- 2-Day Friday and Saturday Savings: Walmart's Black Friday circular also includes incredible savings storewide that begin Friday and are available through Saturday.

"With our in store and online specials, we're providing our customers the opportunity for a few Black Friday moments," said Fleming. "And throughout the weekend, our customers can count on us to continue to deliver amazing every day prices, whether shopping for Christmas gifts or checking off the weekly grocery list."

Walmart's Black Friday circular can be found in its entirety at http://www.walmart.com/.

About Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE:WMT)

Every week, millions of customers visit Walmart Stores, Supercenters, Neighborhood Markets, and Sam's Club locations across America or log on to its online store at http://www.walmart.com. The company and its Foundation are committed to a philosophy of giving back locally. Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is proud to support the causes that are important to customers and associates right in their own neighborhoods, and last year gave more than $296 million to local communities in the United States. More information about Walmart can be found by visiting http://www.walmartstores.com/. Online merchandise sales are available at http://www.walmart.com/.

Source: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

Posted by Shane Sturgeon, November 24, 2008 3:53 AM

Reader Commentary

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andrewleblanccox • Nov 25, 8:46am
I bought Sony's original Blu Ray player in 2006, paying well over $500 mail order, which at the time seemed a good deal. What I find
disheartening, is the seeming endless firm ware updates for the players. Just a month ago, I requested a version 4.0 update disc,
which never arrived from Sony. A follow up phone call today informed me the update of the week is now version 4.2. When will it
all end? Alghough the majority of my Blu Ray collection plays satisfactorily, I'm never sure with newer titles, like the Jame Bond collection,
if I'll actually be able to start the movie! With the last Indie Jones flic, I could only get the disc started using chapter search! I have no
intention or interest in connecting my player with ethernet to the web and wish the designers of new special features would call a halt
to the interactive features, which seems to be contributing to the majority of problems these days!...
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davetx • Nov 25, 9:09am
Hi Andrew,
I have a Sony BDP-S300 also and I have downloaded and installed 6 updates including 4.2. All of this has been to our favor, there has been major improvement in these firmware updates, all for free. Now mind you, I needed some of the latest equipment to use them, but the progress has been fantastic. What I love the most is the improvement in the sound. If you have heard your disc's in Dolby True HD or DTS-HD MA, you will know what I am talking about. If not you are missing something great. By the way I also have a Sony PS3 hooked to the internet via wireless, there has been so many updates I can not count them. Vast improvements have been made there also and again all for free. Just in case you think I am a young techie ,I will be 70 in February. Update and see what you have been missing. If you have a friend with a computer maybe he will download and burn to CD the latest update for you.
Dave...
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akirby • Nov 25, 9:41am
Where are all the Blu-Ray haters that said last year that we'd never see cheap Blu-Ray players?...

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About Shane Sturgeon

Shane Sturgeon is the Co-Publisher and Chief Technologist of HDTV Magazine, an industry publication with HDTV roots going back to 1984, when Dale Cripps founded The HDTV Newsletter. Today, HDTV Magazine is a leading online resource for HDTV news and information and captures the eyes and imaginations of over 3 million visitors annually. Mr. Sturgeon has a background in information technology and has served in various consulting capacities for Fortune 500 companies such as J.P. Morgan Chase, Verizon Communications, Proctor & Gamble and Nationwide Insurance. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Wright State University.