Best Buy opening earlier on Thanksgiving

The dishes from Thanksgiving dinner will barely be dry when Best Buy stores open at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 28, to treat shoppers to an early wave of doorbuster deals.



The 5 p.m. Thanksgiving Day opening puts Best Buy an hour ahead of most other retailers who plan to open on Thanksgiving Day at 6 p.m. Best Buy said more than 1,000 of its stores would open at 5 p.m. to give shoppers an early chance to take advantage of Black Friday deals and some stores are already seeing lines form. Stores will remain open until 1 a.m. Friday, close briefly and then reopen at 8 a.m. Friday. Store hours return to a more normal schedule during the weekend, opening at 9 a.m. and closing at 10 p.m. on Saturday and opening at 11 a.m. and closing at 8 p.m. on Sunday.



“While we recognize the decision to open on Thanksgiving affects Best Buy employees, customers have made it clear that many of them want to begin shopping on Thanksgiving evening,” Best Buy noted in a statement. “In recent years, millions of Americans have shopped on Thanksgiving, and our store associates are excited and prepared to help customers fulfill their holiday wish lists. Most Thanksgiving evening shifts are filled by employees who volunteer to work. All hourly store employees who work on Thanksgiving will, of course, receive holiday pay.”



Best Buy’s doorbuster specials will be offered in two waves with the first round available at 5 p.m. Thanksgiving Day and a second set at 8 a.m. Black Friday. To complement the in-store offerings, BestBuy.com will feature online only deals all day on Thanksgiving with additional offers on Friday.



Among some of the items Best Buy is featuring this year are a Samsung 55 inch LED Ultra HD Smart TV for $899.99 and a Panasonic 50” LED 1080p HDTV for $199.99. A $100 discount on all iPad Air 2 models, $90 off Beats Solo headphones and a $50 discount on GoPro Hero 3+ Silver cameras are other top discounts.