Walmart Reveals Cyber Week Deals Starting On Black Friday To Counter Amazon's 35 Days Of Deals

Alexandra Burlacu, Tech Times 22 November 2016, 04:11 pm

Walmart just announced its post-Black Friday deals, revealing the upcoming Cyber Week 2016 deals that will start earlier than last year.

In fact, Walmart is starting everything early, and it might seem quite confusing, but try to keep up. The retailer is kicking off Black Friday deals on Thursday, while the post-Black Friday deals part of Cyber Week starts on Black Friday. Last year, Walmart started Cyber Week on the Saturday of the long Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but this year, it's kicking things off a day earlier to cram as many deals as it can into the upcoming period and challenge Amazon.

Last week, Amazon announced 35 days of discounts to keep the Black Friday momentum going from Nov. 16 until Dec. 22, when it will likely kick off its Christmas and New Year's deals. Aiming to take on Amazon, Walmart now announced that it will start Cyber Week a minute after midnight on Friday, Nov. 25.

Unbeatable Prices, More Choices And Surprising New Brands

Walmart touts unbeatable prices, surprising brands and a large assortment of choices for Cyber Week.

"By tripling our online product assortment, we're able to offer a lot more new brands and choices to customers all season long," says Steve Breen, Walmart's SVP of Merchandising. "No matter how or when you shop Walmart — in stores, online or through our app — you're going to save on everything you want throughout the season."

Walmart.com now has an impressive assortment of products amassing 23 million items, marking a notable 8 million increase compared to last year. Due to this expansion, shoppers will now be able to find more products than they would in a Walmart store, including items from brands such as Michael Kors.

Threshold For Free Shipping

Unlike Target, Best Buy and other rivals offering Black Friday deals, Walmart is not waiving the minimum requirement for free shipping. Walmart still requires shoppers to make purchases of at least $50 to benefit from free shipping, albeit it argues that most of its customers pass that threshold anyway during the Black Friday-Cyber Week-Cyber Monday period.

Walmart Cyber Week Deals

Walmart is offering a number of attractive discounts on various items for Cyber Week, promising 2,500 deals per day. Many deals will run through the whole week, but there will also be deals good for one day only. Without further ado, here are some of the most enticing Cyber Week deals Walmart revealed:

Google Home smart speaker

Walmart shoppers will be able to find top brands such as Nerf, Samsung and Google at Walmart and other brands such as UGG, Michael Kors, Ray-Ban and others from its marketplace sellers.