I’m sure we all know what Black Friday is about and how it’s the official kick-off to holiday shopping. However, this year it began on October 4th when Amazon’s massive Deals for days promotions began.
Begin your holiday gift shopping early and here’s why.
Some major retailers such as Target and Amazon have already launched some of their early Black Friday deals, with Amazon tweeting that they have already sold more than One million toys from their “Holiday toy list” for children in October. A recent poll shows that half of Americans have already started their holiday shopping and because of this many major retailers are running into a lot of out-of-stock items.
If you haven’t started your holiday shopping yet, luckily you still have some time but not long if you’re going to get all the gifts on lists here’s what you’re going to need to know, which is going to include the best time to start, “the products which our experts predict are going to sell out and the 2021 shipping delays.” sentences in parentheses are lines straight from the article.
Here’s exactly why you should start shopping early.
Some struggling supply chains and labor shortages have experts predicting that many products will be in low supply and many products will have shipping delays, some even longer than last year. Now combine all those factors and add in the online shoppers, now knowing just this information this should hopefully start prompting you to start holiday shopping early.
TingLong Dai Professor of Operations Management & Business Analytics at John Hopkins University Carey Business School states that “We have a lot of goods already arriving in the U.S. or on their way here. Now knowing this and item and delivery delays it will probably take many months to sort out.
Even the white house has been warning shoppers about the turbulent shopping season coming, press secretary, Jen Psaki stated that they “cannot guarantee” that packages will arrive on Christmas due to supply chain disruptions.
Hot items you should buy before they sell out.
- Electronics- Nintendo Switches and Amazon Alexa Echo dots are both on many people’s lists.
- Toys- Squishmallows, Cocomelon JJ doll is available for preorder, Bluey family home playset, Lego star wars advent calendar, Barbie Dreamhouse.
- Home goods and apparel- UGG fluff yeah slippers, Always pan from our house. (this list of items were stated in the article)
When exactly should you start shopping?
While Black Friday may seem like a good time to start your holiday shopping, you may want to continue to think about that for a bit, but don’t worry Black Friday is over so good for you, you were able to stay away from shipping and labor delays! But that doesn’t mean there are no shortages anymore. Since Black Friday is over, and a lot of people are ordering during that time, shipping and labor shortages are more likely to happen during that time. You may be asking yourself well when should I order my gifts now? I would recommend starting ASAP. Here’s why I would recommend starting ASAP especially if you are shopping online. Because of the delays I was talking about earlier. But if you do want to shop online you should be starting soon so that you don’t have to come in contact with any shipping problems. Like I stated early, you don’t want to come in contact with labor shortages, if you don’t start now/soon all of your orders may not get here but the holidays.
