What time Black Friday sales start for Amazon, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, and more

UPDATE: Nov. 21, 2024, 10:00 a.m. EST This story has been updated with new information about Amazon's Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales.Despite Amazon's best efforts with its much-hyped Prime Day events, Black Friday remains the biggest shopping holiday of the year by far. It always takes place on the fourth Friday in November (and the day after Thanksgiving), which happens to fall abnormally late in the month this year. For consumers, that means two things: There's a shorter-than-usual windo