A Bloomberg report picked up by the Toledo Blade is reporting that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is issuing guidelines to retailers on how to handle shopping crowds on the day after Thanksgiving.
Here’s the OSHA news release.
A snippet:
“Crowd-related injuries during special retail sales and promotional events have increased during recent years,” said acting Assistant [...]

Coupon Sherpa has a great list at 18 Tips to Having a Killer Black Friday.
A snippet:
Leave the kids at home: Nobody, least of all you, wants to listen to children throwing tantrums in the middle of the mall or worry about losing them in the crowd. Children will only slow you down and insist on [...]

Are you wondering why so many Christmas gift discounts and deals show up before Thanksgiving, or on Thanksgiving Day itself?
Well, that’s long been my secret for shopping without seeking out the doorbuster specials on Black Friday. I almost always have to work that day. As it turns out, this year I’ll be doing the Black [...]

If you are looking for car deals, guess which day that some car pricing researchers say is your best bet?
Black Friday.
Go figure.
Story is at CNN.

Josh at Cynical Critic has compiled his list of “best picks” his Black Death Friday Best Picks post. I like his list because he is indicating which deals he thinks will be the most popular ones.
Keep in mind that any early pricing you see for Black Friday on second-hand sites is second-hand information. Before you [...]

People are buzzing around the Internet about seeing a leaked Wal-Mart Black Friday ad. Just for the sake of clarification, Wal-Mart hasn’t actually posted its Black Friday ad yet.
The ads that were in the newspapers yesterday were the Thanksgiving ad for Nov. 18-26. There are some nice deals this week including a Thanksgiving menu for [...]

The National Retail Federation’s holiday season projects include an official CyberMonday shopping portal and research site. Although the site is open year round, it’s aimed at the holiday shoppers.
More than 650 retailers are participating in the site.
CyberMonday is the nickname for the Monday after Thanksgiving, which has become a busy day for online shopping orders. [...]

I’ve been assigned to cover Black Friday for The Monroe Evening News in Monroe, Mich.
This is the first time in 10 years I’ve covered Black Friday, and I plan to have some fun with the story. The angle my co-workers and I have settled on is:
The Monroe Evening News wants to feature the perspective of [...]

This takes some poking around, but go to Meijer.com, enter your store’s zip code (Monroe MI Meijer store is 48162), and you can find the Meijer Black Friday ad.
The doorbuster deals will be good from 5 a.m. to noon Friday Nov. 27. The budget-friendly specials include a selection of DVDs for $8 each, selection of [...]

It was a little difficult for me to find Black Friday shopping tip articles that focus more on how to handle through the crowds and keep your sanity … rather than which web site supposedly has the best “leaked” ads.
But I did find two.
MSNBC has an article that was written in 2007 but the tips [...]