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Sunday November 20, 2011 | 12:00 AM

Black Friday is approaching and that means retailers will be putting out their best sales of the season on big-ticket items to lure customers to their registers.

The Black Friday ads will be in The Times Leader throughout the week, mainly on Thanksgiving day, but I can offer you a sneak peak, obtained through a variety of sources, on what you can expect when you brave the cold and dark Thursday night or Friday morning.

Here’s a store-by-store look at the best offers:

• Walmart will have an Emerson 40- inch, 1080p resolution, 60 Hz, LCD television for $248. If 30 inches is more your size, the stores have the same brand’s 720p resolution LCD television for $188. The store Walmart also will start selling Amazon Kindle’s for $79 when its Black Friday electronics sale kicks off at 12:01 a.m.

• Best Buy also has a great deal on televisions. Line up early to snag a Sharp 42 inch LCD 1080p HDTV for $199.99. And when I say early, I mean on Thursday morning, since doors open at midnight. The store will pass out tickets for its big sales items two hours before doors open. If you really want to go big, get an LG 3.7 cubic feet, nine-cycle front-load washing machine or 7.3 cubic feet, nine-cycle electric dryer for $549.99 each. They’re typically $999.99 apiece.

• Lowe’s opens at 5 a.m. Friday and has a Whirlpool 3.4 cubic foot high efficiency washer and 7 cubic foot front loading electric dryer for $698, total.

• HH Gregg also has a washer dryer special when doors open at midnight. Get a Maytag 3.5 cubic foot washer and 6.7 cubic foot electric dryer for $699.99. If something a bit smaller is in order, get a Sony 14.1 megapixel digital camera with 4x optical zoom for $49.99 after mail-in rebate. They retail for $119.99.

• Kohl’s has its entire stock of toys 50 percent off. Doors open at midnight and the sale runs to 1 p.m. Friday. Also for kids, the entire stock of Jumping Beans hooded bath towel wraps, typically $29.99, is on sale for $7.99.

• JC Penney opens at 4 a.m. and if toys are your thing, then head there. All Fisher Price, Nerf and Fisher-Price toys regularly priced between $12.99 to $19.99 are on sale for $3.99. The sale lasts until items sell out or 1 p.m. And don’t forget, as they’ve done for years, the first few hundred shoppers at each location will get a free Disney collectable snow globe just for stopping in.

• Toys R Us and Babies R Us have its brand diapers, the value box size, on sale for $10 with a limit of four. Doors open Thursday night at 9 and the sale runs through 1 p.m. Friday. Not only are these boxes typically twice that price but they also contain $38 worth of coupons.

• If it’s an XBOX 4GB, 360 game system you seek, to Target you should go. Pay $139.99 when the doors open Friday at midnight. Get Cars 2 or Transformers Dark Side of the Moon on DVD while you’re there for $13.

• If you prefer PlayStation 3, then Kmart should be your destination at 5 a.m. Friday. The system, plus games included in the special holiday pack, is on sale for $199.99 as part of the retailer’s Blue Friday sales event. Supplies are limited.


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