5 Things You Need to Do to Plan for Black Friday Deals

We’ve all done it- we purchase an item that we think is a great deal and then we get home and realize we can get a better deal on Cyber Monday or that the bright pink scarf just isn’t the right gift for Grandma Linda. Make sure you know the store’s policies on returning items purchased on Black Friday. Don’t wait too long to make those returns because sometimes the window is shorter on deal days like this. You may only get store credit back, too. 

Check and see if the store does price matching on Black Friday as well. If you find a great deal in one store but another store across town is selling it for $4 less, the current store may match it. Not all stores will price match on Black Friday even if they price match on a regular basis, so be sure to read up on the policies. 

Many dedicated Black Friday shoppers will sit themselves down a few weeks before Black Friday and start searching for the best deals. They go from website to website, spending hours making sure they know how to shop when the big day arrives. 

The Flipp app takes all that planning and puts it into one convenient place. This free shopping app can help you find all the best deals on Black Friday before Black Friday even begins. You can search all the circulars or even use the search tab to find deals on particular items. This gives you an easy way to compare if a “deal” is actually a deal before you walk into the store and a blaring sign tries to tell you so. 

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The best part about using Flipp for Black Friday shopping is that the new DEALS tab will show you where are the sales are in your area. You can either browse through the tab or search for a particular item making it easier than ever to make sure you know what store you need to head to first on that Black Friday morning. 

Don’t go into Black Friday shopping blind. Make a list of things you want to try and score and search where the best deals are for your area. You can use the Flipp app to create your shopping list ahead of time with the Shopping List tab, which also shows you where your items are on sale around you. You can even share your list with a family member or friend so you can cover more ground. Of course, part of the fun of Black Friday is finding items on sale that you didn’t even think of, so be open to the possibility of finding amazing deals along the way. 

It’s also easy to get carried overboard though. You see all these amazing deals and you start to get serious FOMO, causing you to fill up your cart faster than you can say “HO HO HO.” If you set a budget prior to stepping out, you can stop yourself from making unnecessary purchases.