Q&A: Black Friday watcher: Amazon's the one to beat; tablets will be hot sellers

Look for slight markdowns, decent gift card bundling with Apple products

Black Friday deals for computers, tablets and other tech offerings started "leaking" out as early as October and now a week before the big post-Thanksgiving shopping day, most retailers' plans are known.

We swapped email earlier this month with Black Friday watcher Michael Brim of BFads.net for some help in sorting out this season's trends.

The first Black Friday ads this year were released in early October?

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Other hot trends this year in Black Friday sales?

Nothing really comes to mind. I think tablets will be relatively big just because of their modest price-point, but that's really it. Home appliances are always big, but I don't know if that's something worth highlighting on Network World.

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