Black Friday 2009
Netbooks aren't for video games or watching movies or data processing or reviewing pictures from your camera. A third of the people that buy netbooks are dissatisfied by their performance because they don't know what they are buying. Netbooks are ideal for e-mail, chatting, and blogging. They are good for text, not high-end videos. Maybe they should be called Textbooks.

Agbogbloshie, Ghana and Guiyu, China and Bangalore, India are some of the world's largest dumping grounds for technology.  Here in the United States, we don't see the problem of yesterday's technology being shipped and dumped to pollute some other part of the world, while consumers scramble for the latest greatest gadget. Frontline has a documentary on the Digital Dumping Ground.



2009 Black Friday Shopping News

The Malls

Eden Prairie Center 11/27 hours - 5am-10pm Mall of America  11/27 hours 6am-10pm (6am gift bags) Maplewood Mall 11/27 hours - 5am-10pm

Ridgedale 11/27 hours - 5am-10pm Rosedale 11/27 hours - 5am-9pm Southdale 11/27 hours - 5am-10pm

Ace Hardware - (Saturday, 11/28) coupon for $50 off on regularly priced item under $30 (Bfads)
Bead Monkey - save 35% off (6-7am), save 30% off (7-8am), save 25% off (8-9am), & save 20% (9-9:59am) (Bead Monkey)
Best Buy - (opens 7am) expects to have a better year without rival Circuit City & does not plan heavy discounts (Reuters)
Half Price Books - (opens 7am) 20% off on 11/27 until 10am, 2010 calendar & $5 coupon with $25 purchase (BF.net)
Herbergers - Fri 3am-1pm $10 off any item over $10 coupon in Pioneer Press & Strib
Holiday - 7 ¢ off per gallon gas coupons in Pioneer Press & Strib
JCPenney - Fri 3pm-11pm $10 off $50 in purchases or $15 off $75 in purchases coupon in Pioneer Press & Strib
JoAnn Fabrics - Pioneer Press coupons:
Kohls - (opens 4am) offers a $10 gift card w/ $50 in purchases (Bfads)
Macys - (opens 5am) coupon in Pioneer Press for $10 off of $25; 15% off sale & clearance items
Mall of America - (opens 6am) be the first 300 people to line up in the Rotunda (1st floor, east side) at 6am for gift bags
Michaels - coupons in Pioneer Press & Strib:
Officemax - (opens 7am) advertises a $380 notebook computer & a $90 GPS (Bfads)
Old Navy - Thur $10 off $50 purchases coupon in Pioneer Press & Strib; free Lego Rockband game with $20 purchase on Fri
Sears - Fri 4am-noon $10 off $50 purchases coupon in Pioneer Press & Strib
Target - (opens 5am) offers a $10 gift card w/$100 in purchases from 5am-noon; 32" HDTV $246 (Bfads)
Toys R Us - plans to open 350 "pop up" stores in malls for the 2009 holiday season; Mall of America (3rd flr) has one. (AP)
Wal-Mart - (open 24 hours, sales 5am-11am) offers  more than 100 toys with a $10 price tag for the 2009 holiday season (AP)