Great Black Friday deals for online shoppers


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SANDY — For Travis Sanger Black Friday preps started weeks ago. He's the general manager at JC Penney's South Towne store.

"It's all hands on deck, on the floor," Sanger said.

It's no secret Black Friday sets the tone for the holiday shopping season.

"We have a ton more inventory than we have had in years past and trying to get it all on the floor to show we have a great Black Friday selection for people," he said.

Sanger will be ready to unlock doors at 3 p.m. Thanksgiving day. JC Penney will beat Wal-Mart and Target to the Black Friday punch by three whole hours.

KSL Investigators searched the web to see if couch potatoes can get the same great door buster deals online this Friday. Turns out, if you're Black Friday-adverse, the website The Black Friday is a must see.

The website posts Black Friday ads for several major retailers. Clicking on a product will alert shoppers to its online availability.

Eager to shop deals, KSL Investigators couldn't resist browsing and found that Wal-Mart will offer a Samsung Tablet at the store and online for $79.

At Target, a smartphone-controlled Robo-raptor will be $49 both online and in store.

And Best Buy will be slashing the price of an iPad Air 2 by $125 both places.

Brick-and-mortar stores are improving their online deals according to shopping expert Becky Vilos.

"They really are trying to go up against Amazon. They're trying to show that they have an online presence that's awesome," Vilos said.

Both Target and Wal-Mart boast nearly all of their Friday deals will post online, hours before stores open.

Vilos, who runs a website called Utah Sweet Savings, has taken the guesswork out of bargain hunting by posting pages and pages of holiday shopping deals.

Before signing off, KSL Investigators scored another great tip from Vilos. She tells parents it's OK to put off toy buying until Christmas creeps closer because discounts tend to be deeper.

"Absolutely," she said. "They really drop too, historically a couple of weeks before Christmas."

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