By Lisa Caplan on November 23rd, 2011 iPhone apps to find the best deals on Black Friday and beyond. It’s the most wonderful time of the year. Families gather, feast, celebrate and then get ready for a Black Friday shopping bonanza. The hottest deals mean the biggest crowds will be mobbing stores. With this celebration of conspicuous consumption putting huge pressure on holiday shoppers in a tough economy, how does one find the very best deals? Well, an iPhone loaded with the right apps can make things a lot easier. This week we look at our four favorites for saving time and money. TGI Black Friday Powered by two major shopping resources, TGIblackfriday.com and DealCatcher.com, TGI Black Friday is the go-to app for finding the best bargains from the biggest chains like Walmart, Kohls, Best Buy, Target, Old Navy and far too many more to list. The updates come fast and Read More

With so many Black Friday deals being offered by retailers and e-tailers, you can’t possibly monitor each one of them especially if you’re not in front of your computer. To help you out in keeping track of these Black Friday deals, a new iPhone app just went live from the App Store - TGI Black Friday. It’s a pretty straigth-forward product search app-well organized and designed. No fancy stuff, just plain and simple application that would get the job done, that is to ensure that you get the Black Friday deals. TGI Black Friday iPhone app lets you view Black Friday ads for all major retail stores including Best Buy, Target, Walmart, Sears and more. It provides you frequent updates with new leads ads from those stores, receive push notifications when new ad is posted, create personal shopping wish list, compare prices and more. Of course, the app also has a Read More

posted by D. St. Charles on Sunday, November 14, 2010 at 6:01 pm.   Friends can be such buzzkills.  There I was, floating on a self-induced sugar coma of purloined Halloween candy, when a now former friend reminded me that there were fewer than 45 shopping days until Christmas.   My next bite of a fun size candy bar was tinged with dread resulting in an uncomfortable heaviness in the pit of my stomach.  While I prefer to pursue online bargains in the comfort of my home by the soft glow of my computer monitor, there is an abundance of brave souls who will rouse themselves on Black Friday to face the hordes of early shoppers and bitter cold to score some fantastic deals, and there are a number of apps available to assist them in their pursuits.  Two apps seem particularly useful for the Black Friday rush: GobbleGobble and TGI Black Friday. Read on Read More

11.24.09        If you plan to brave the Black Friday crowds, then you owe it to yourself and your sanity to be prepared. That means arming yourself with the best iPhone apps for finding deals, finding your car, or finding your way home again. Whatever you need to get an advantage in the craziest brick-and-mortar shopping day of the year, as the often repeated saying goes, there’s an app for that. And, because we know the whole point of  Black Friday is to save money, most of these iPhone apps are free or cost $0.99. ($0.99): Don’t waste time searching for your car in a crowded mall parking lot. Find your car quickly and move on to the next sale! Park’n Find uses GPS to remember where you parked so you can find it again later. The app can also remind you to put more money on the meter Read More

I have a friend who awaits the annual e-mailing of the Black Friday Excel Spreadsheet with greater anticipation than the gifts that may come from it. The coveted list is a compilation of leaked deals coming up on the Friday after Thanksgiving. But she can do better. An app called TGI Black Friday lists the upcoming deals from more than 50 stores, which can be handily searched to find the right deal on a wide variety of products. The free app is powered by Deal Catcher, which tracks discounts year-round. The TGI Black Friday app has a little more pizazz than the spreadsheet, offering product pictures and descriptions. (Note to those who like their data unadorned, the 2009 Black Friday Excel spreadsheet can be found here.) You can search the app by specific store, say, the 266 deals from Best Buy, or by category, like books, clothes, or appliances, comparing deals Read More

I don't know that I completely agree with this article over at Business Week (technically, last year was our first Christmas with the App Store), but I think the concept is fascinating. Lauren Sherman and her interviewee Retails Systems Research managing partner Paula Rosenblum reason that this coming Christmas season -- surprise, we're only five days away from Black Friday 2009 -- will be the first where mobile shopping apps (and the smartphones that can run them) will be generally ubiquitous. Not only will people have access to apps on their iPhone that help them find deals, stores, and prices, but they'll all have 'net-connected phones as well, which many of them actually got last Christmas. You'll see people sending texts to each other, playing games while in line, and even scanning coupons in at the register -- all with their phones. As I said, this was all possible last Christmas, Read More

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