Shop In Your Slippers On Black Friday | Money

by: Mary Schwager, GALTime Consumer Watchdog

Do people really love prying themselves out of a warm bed at 3am the day after Thanksgiving, brushing off the overindulgence of food and wine from the night before just to do battle in department stores? Is saving $10 on the new fad toy their child wants worth risking getting trampled by crazed shoppers at the crack of dawn?

Many retailers are telling shoppers to stay in their pajamas on Black Friday and stay home and shop. Several huge chains, like Kohls.com, Toys R Us.com and Best Buy.com announced pre Black Friday sales on their websites. So instead of fighting the frenzy of shoppers you can sit at your desk and whip out your credit card instead of wanting to whip the obnoxious guy in front of you in line.

Here are some quick tips to shopping in your slippers on Black Friday:

If you're looking for a specific item, try Google Shopping. It's a great feature, you just type in the product you want into the special shopping search engine and Google scans retail and online stores for the items and gives you price comparisons.

If you have a favorite store, just log onto its website, many are previewing Black Friday sales and allowing you to shop online starting at midnight.

These websites are tracking Black Friday deals: Black Friday Ads, Black-Friday.net and The Black Friday.com

Mary Schwager is a journalist with more than 17 years experience. She's won more than two-dozen local, regional, national and international journalism awards for investigative, consumer, feature reporting and writing including 10 Emmy Awards and 7 Edward R. Murrow Awards and numerous Associated Press honors. She worked as a television reporter, investigative reporter and investigative producer at network affiliated stations across the country including Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Milwaukee, WI, Indianapolis, Indiana and in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee, she also conducted criminal and insurance fraud investigations as a state licensed detective. Mary is also a national consumer columnist for Examiner.Com: http://www.examiner.com/x-1893-News-You-Can-Use-Examiner.