Black Friday 2018 sales at Best Buy and Walmart

This year, Black Friday will get started early. Like, on Thursday.

Thanksgiving lunch instead of Thanksgiving dinner on Nov. 22. Best Buy and Walmart have both announced that their in-store Black Friday sales will kick off on the evening of Thanksgiving Day.

Best Buy Will Open Its Stores from 5 pm local time on Nov. 21 – again, that's Thanksgiving Day – and close up at 1 am on Friday, Nov. 23. That will give shoppers an opportunity to head home for a few hours of sleep before Best Buy reopens its stores at 8 am

Walmart is open all day Thanksgiving and will kick off its Black Friday deals on Thursday at 6 pm local time –two hours earlier than last year. Free coffee and christmas cookies will be available to the brave souls who show up – but most of Walmart's Black Friday deals will come online the evening before, at 10 pm ET on Wednesday, Nov. 21.

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First published Nov. 8.
Update, Nov. 8: Adds corrected information about Walmart 's store hours on Nov. 21 and 22.

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