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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wal-Mart Stores Inc is holding special in-store sales this Saturday as the world's largest retailer looks to win over U.S. shoppers in what could be the toughest holiday sales season in nearly two decades.

The company, which held similar sales leading up to the holidays last year, has said that it expects its shoppers to begin their gift-buying earlier this year to stretch limited budgets.

U.S. retail chains traditionally launch their big holiday promotions immediately after Thanksgiving Day in late November, but many have started to offer discounts even earlier as the economy weakens.

On its website, Wal-Mart says the sale will begin at 8 a.m. on November 8. In-store deals include a Sony PS3 video game console with a $100 gift card for $399, a basic Compaq laptop for $298, and a Sanyo 46-inch LCD high-definition television for $898.

Wal-Mart had already started cutting prices on popular toys to attract cash-strapped shoppers looking for bargains. Last year in early November, the company began offering the type of holiday discounts it usually reserved for "Black Friday" -- the day after Thanksgiving.

(Reporting by Nicole Maestri; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn)

But there will still be only three active check-out aisles ...

gsabc wrote:But there will still be only three active check-out aisles ...

LOL!!!!!!!!!!

That was funny...and kind of sad, because it's true!

The Walmart closest to my house just did a huge renovation and reconfigured the registers so that they added more. There are STILL never any of them open!!!

I almost always check out in the pharmacy or the garden center...less waiting in line!

gsabc wrote:But there will still be only three active check-out aisles ...

ROFLMAO


Soooo true

Don't forget your bingo card!

Those are priceless. And the reason I shop at Target.

I'm still waiting for the ghetto/hoosier version of that card, or I'm never gonna win.....

lb13

I actually saw a Christmas themed ad for Wal-Mart last night while watching election coverage.

What is this "Wal-Mart" of which you speak?

We're still waiting for Target to reopen. It's roof collapsed during Hurricane Ike. You can't know the deprivation I've gone through. Target is my personal shopper (sorry LB-WalMart is just too out of the way, though I lived at the original one here before they built all this other crap).

Christmas gifts are going to consist of umbrellas for drinks, swizzle sticks (I think those are both marvelous ideas stolen from a previous post), matches stolen from other people's purses and flip flops from CVS.

WheresFanny wrote:What is this "Wal-Mart" of which you speak?

Sorry, it's now Walmart*.

Bob Juch wrote:

WheresFanny wrote:What is this "Wal-Mart" of which you speak?

Sorry, it's now Walmart*.

Still doesn't ring a bell. Sorry.

WheresFanny wrote:

Bob Juch wrote:

WheresFanny wrote:What is this "Wal-Mart" of which you speak?

Sorry, it's now Walmart*.

Still doesn't ring a bell. Sorry.

Mecca?

Bob Juch wrote:

WheresFanny wrote:

Bob Juch wrote: Sorry, it's now Walmart*.

Still doesn't ring a bell. Sorry.

Mecca?

Oh, Mecca! Why didn't you just say so in the first place? Ha!

When I was doing my civic duty Tuesday (which is, of course, making a pilgrimage to Mecca) I didn't see any adverts lying about touting superduper sales.

a1mamacat wrote:

gsabc wrote:But there will still be only three active check-out aisles ...

ROFLMAO


Soooo true

That's if you're lucky!