Black Friday 2021
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Black Friday 2021
This is an exclusive list of all BF 2021 deals. Even though I say "Black Friday deals", it refers to all the deals that go live during the holiday season, which is mostly from start of November to December end. This year BF deals are even worse than last year deals, which was already a pretty lame BF.
Black Friday 2020 (last year) link is under shopping section here: Black Friday 2020
Anyway I'll list BF deals below. You still have extended return window for the holidays (mots retailers like Walmart, Target, BestBuy allow you to return items until Jan 2021), so it's relatively low risk. You can always return the item if you find it at a lower price later in Dec or Jan.
Best place to find all BF ads is from below links (too much advertisement makes it hard to navigate 
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- Black Friday website with ad scans: https://blackfriday.com/
- Slickdeals BF ads: https://blackfriday.slickdeals.net
Deals:
Some good deals summarized (more details in bottom part of page along with deals)
- Toys: Hot wheels cars for 50 cents each => at Dollar General. Happens every year.
- Bikes: Mountain Bike for $179 => at Academy Sports + Outdoor. This sold for $125 on BF 2020. So, 40% price hike !! Many other kids bikes for < $100. Kids bikes used to sell for < $50 every BF at Walmart.
- TV: No TV sale this year. Last year 65 inch sold for $229, this year cheapest 65 inch is $300. Closest deal to last year is 70 inch TV for $398 and 75 inch TV for $550. Last year 70 inch was $300, and 75 inch was $500. So, nothing worth buying this year on BF.
- Laptop: No good deals for laptop. Laptops that sold for $250 last year, going for $400 this year. Might be prudent to buy laptops during clearance after Christmas. Still few deals at target, walmart and dell.com
- GiftCards: A lot of deals pop up every year during BF, where you get 20% discount on brand name GC as Apple, Home Depot, Lowes, Fast food chain, etc
Walgreens: Gift card deal: Free $10 Walgreens GC with purchase of 2 $25 Apple GC.
Look in gift card section for details of the offer: gift cards
Dollar General - Hot wheels cars for 50cents/each => valid 11/18/2021 - 11/20/2021
Look in "Shopping" section for details of the offer: Toys
Academy Sports: Bikes for upto 50% off - Adult bike for $149 (expires 12/12/2021) for $179 (valid from 11/21/2021 to 11/27/2021)
https://weeklyads.weekly-ads.us/academy-sports-ads/flyer-269260-0
The BF ad is at above link. Adult Ozone 500 Elevate bike sold for $249 (regular price) in 2020, and was 50% off on BF. This year, they raised the price to $299 and reduced the discount to 40%, resulting in same bike costing $55 (40%) more than last year's BF (see deal belwo for 2020). Yikes to inflation of 40% !! However, you can get a 10% coupon (as explained in shopping section), as well as use discounted GC to bring your price down.
These Elevate bikes are complicated with separate front and back gear, and if the gears are not in sync, it locks up, or makes sound. Anything more than $100 for any regular bike is just outrageous.
UPDATE 12/09/2021: Adult Ozone Elevate bikes are on sale for $149 until 12th Dec, 2021 (all at 50% off). This is $30 lower than BF price. This is just $10 more than last year BF. Link below.
https://www.academy.com/shop/browse/search?searchTerm=bike%20elevate
screenshot of ad:
Kohls:
https://www.theblackfriday.com/kohls-blackfriday.shtml
Kohls as always have some decent deals. There's $15 Kohls cash (KC) for every $50 spent. You also 5% in Kohls rewards. So you make about $35 in Kohls currency every $100 of puchase. There's 15% off coupon which applies to everything except branded electronics stuff or branded shoes. KC may be redeemed from 27th Nov to 8th Dec. Of course, during period of KC redemptions, there are no good deals. The only bright side is that you save money on sales tax, as KC works like a coupon, reducing the price of the item.
Few deals:
- Kids scooter for $15. Very well rated. Looks like it may work for kids 5-10 yrs of age. This is available at target for $20.
- Multiple items for close to Free after mail in rebate (MIR). Every year Kohls have these. They used to be money maker in prior years, now they are barely free. Rebate link here: https://www.kohls.com/sale-event/rebates.jsp
- Lots of Toastmaster small appliances, i.e: Toaster, Mini chopper, mini blender, mini waffle maker, coffee maker, etc. They cost $5 each after MIR. Some of these are good quality and last > 5 years, while some die within a year or two.
- Anchor Hocking glass storage set => $15 after $10 rebate.There is a similar pyrex deal for same price, but these are better (they can be used for baking too, and larger size too)
- Lots of Hamilton beach appliances. These will cost $20 for 3 + Kohls cash. However, they are more expensive than Toastmasters
- Philips sonicare toothbrush. These used to very cheap after MIR and coupons (40% off mystery coupons) in all the past years. I've gotten them for < $10 a piece in past. However, from this year, no coupons are applicable on these, so not worth the price.
- Misc clothing and bed/bath items on sale.
J.C.Penney:
https://blackfriday.com/ads/black-friday/jcpenney
JCP as always have some decent deals. There's $15 in JCP rewards for every $50 spent. for JCP reward members.
Few deals:
- Multiple items have mail in rebate (MIR). Nothing is free though.
- Lots of small appliances, i.e: Toaster, Mini chopper, mini blender, mini waffle maker, coffee maker, etc. They are lot cheaper after MIR. Not sure about the quality.
- Misc clothing and bed/bath items on sale.
Walmart:
- 11/22/21: Kids 20 inch bike for $58. These used to go for $39 every BF. Good bikes though for up to 7 years of age.
- 11/22/21: Vacuum cleaner. Lots of Robo vacuum for $100 or so with good reviews. Not a fan of any of these, but hey they are hot fashion accessory for a house.
- https://www.walmart.com/ip/Yeedi-K600-Robot-Vacuum-Cleaner-1800Pa-Robotic-Pet-Hair-Self-Charging/667662564 => $90
- https://slickdeals.net/f/15434116-anker-eufy-robot-g30-at-144?src=rcm_brand => $144. Same one was $150 few days back: https://slickdeals.net/f/15350122-anker-eufy-robovac-g30-verge-robot-vacuum-with-home-mapping-2000pa-suction-wi-fi-boundary-strips-for-carpets-and-hard-floors-walmart-com-149
- 11/25/21: HP laptop for $370. Similar one sold at walmart (with i3 processor) for $250 in 2020 BF
- 11/29/21: LED multicolor Christmas lights => $8 (store pickup only). $5 is the cheapest you can find LED lights anywhere. They have "extra" feature where remaining lights will be on even if It's only available in selected stores, so change your zip code to check for stores where it's available
- 11/29/21: Camp chair => $10 for 2 pack, limit 1. It's shipping only, so comine other items to get to $35 minimum
- 12/01/21: Laptop: OK laptop for $250 (same price as last year, although last year it was a better brand HP)
- 12/04/21: Bikes: Bikes for $100. These had been selling for $170 since the pandemic, so nice to see prices back to normal. These are cruiser bikes, not mmountain bikes though.
Target:
Target has still managed to have some decent deals.
- 65 inch Element TV for $300, 70 inch RCA TV for $430, 75 inch Element TV for $550
- Kids scooter for $20 (Jetson Jupiter with LED lights)
- Kids 16 inch bikes for $50. It's no name "Pacific brand".
- 12/04/21-12/05/21 => yearly deal for 10% off on $500 Target GC. Use discover credit card to get extra 5% in Casback b buying from target.com (NOT in store, only online)
- Lots of good laptops in stores and online for , $400. One was at $180 (chrome laptop), other at $250 (real laptop) with good specs
Amazon:
Amazon had lots of GC deals (max 15% discount) which was pretty lame. It had few lightning deals here and there too.
- 1 TB SSD drive for $80 => Haven't seen a SSD for < $80. It only has usb type C cable (no usb type A with 4 pins that older laptops usually have).
Dell:
Every year, dell has pretty good deals on their laptops compared to all these brick and mortar stores.
- Dell G15 gaming laptop: $800 - 15%CB (from rakuten) - $100 sign up coupon (for signing up on dell.com to receive offers) - $120 (amex dell credit) (or use 5% CB from chase freedom card by activating dell offer on your card). Net price is close to $500.
- https://slickdeals.net/f/15430942-dell-g15-15-6-fhd-120hz-i5-11400h-8gb-ddr4-rtx-3050-ti-512gb-pcie-ssd-win11h-783-99-f-s
- Upgrade the memory to 16GB as 8GB is pretty low. It has 2 memory slots so 1x 8GB will work, or you can buy 2x8GB (in case you want to use same memory in both slots). It takes the DDR4-3200 SODIMM, which is widely available. Go to https://www.crucial.com/, use "Look up my computer." G15 5511, which is this product.