BLACK FRIDAY: Walgreens Shows Off Black Friday Sales

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The grand shopping bacchanal known as Black Friday is rapidly approaching, folks, and as is generally the case, some stores are willing to jump the gun a bit and spill some secrets to get you fired up sufficiently to pull you out of your inevitable turkey coma and get you in the stores.

No exception here is Walgreens, who’s actually sufficiently fired up to get you in and spending to actually offer an appetizer to the great shopping buffet you’ll find waiting for you on the 26th: details have landed on their Black Friday sale and we’ve got them right here.

The big deal here is that a drug store is even offering hardware that’d be of interest to us in the first place, but a sale is a sale no matter where it’s offered, unless of course it’s off the back of a truck. But here’s the early word on what Walgreens is looking to offer up: first, Sony is involved here, with Walgreens offering up a $99.99 BDP-S370 Blu-ray player. Sub-hundred dollar Blu-ray players were a big deal last year, though I don’t think anyone’s enthusiasm will be particularly dampened to see them again this year. And this isn’t some lower-end model, either–CNET actually put this up for review back in June of this year and the lowest retail cost you could find it at was $128 on TigerDirect. It’s Internet capable, has a USB and an HDMI port, and decoders for Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master-Audio.

The deals don’t stop there–they carry on with the Kodak EasyShare C143 digital camera, a 12 megapixel camera with 3x optical zoom at $59.99, and the Olympus T-100 digital camera with comparable stats for just $10 more. You can get six feet of HDMI cable from Philips for a meager $9.99, a set of Skullcandy earbuds for $4.99, and more besides.

You might think of Walgreens as your best source for cold medicine and orange juice when you’re sick, but you may want to think twice now that Black Friday’s come around.