Black Friday Deals Start Tomorrow for Amazon and Walmart

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If you're waiting for Black Friday to shop Black Friday deals, you're way behind the game: Amazon and Walmart have announced that they will start featuring holiday promotions tomorrow. According to USA Today, Amazon will start featuring two daily deals per day from November 1st to December 22nd. They'll also begin ramping up their limited time "lightning deals" program to be more frequent and cover more products, from tomorrow until Black Friday weekend. Not to be outdone, Walmart will unveil 20,000 newly reduced-priced products tomorrow. According to the report, this is about double what the stores usually carry in reduced-priced merchandise.
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