Target’s Black Friday Doorbusters to Include Apex 40-Inch, 1080p LCD TV at $449

Target’s Black Friday doorbusters will include a $449 Apex 40-inch, 60-Hz, 1080p LCD TV when its stores open at 4 a.m. Other doorbusters featured in Target’s ad circular, available Wednesday, were a Philips dual-screen portable DVD player at $85, saving more than $70; $3.99 DVDs including The Blind Side; $39 game controllers for the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360; and a $127 PSP-3000 bundle including the Sony handheld system, Sony’s game LittleBigPlanet, the movie The Karate Kid on Universal Media Disc and a Sony 1-GB Memory Stick, offering “over $100 in added value” combined, Target said. All will be available only while supplies last, it said. Not listed as a doorbuster but one of the best deals offered by Target in the circular was a 4-GB Xbox 360 at its normal $199.99 but with a $50 gift card thrown in.

Featured on the front page of Target’s circular was a Westinghouse 40-inch, 60-Hz, 1080p LCD TV at $298, which the retailer said offered a saving of “over $250.” Also on the front page were DVDs of the movies Grown Ups and Toy Story 3 at $13 each, offering over 30 percent in savings; a $67 Nintendo Wii Fit Plus bundle, saving more than $30; TomTom’s XL335T at $79, saving more than $110; and Nikon’s S202 Coolpix digital camera at $79, saving more than $60, Target said. Other discounted items featured in the circular included a $327.99 Samsung 32-inch, 60-Hz, 720p LCD TV; a Sony wireless-ready Blu-ray player at $99, offering more than $80 in savings; an RCA 7-inch portable DVD player at $49, its “lowest price of the year” on that item; a Philips speaker with rotating dock at $69, $80 less than its normal price; and a Memorex progressive scan DVD player at $19.99, $10 off.

Target also advertised on the circular’s front page that customers who spend $100 or more will get a free $109 gift card, 4-10 a.m. only. Target will also offer free gift cards on various products, in addition to the Xbox 360, that were advertised at their usual prices. Customers who buy an 8-GB iPod Touch at $225 will get a $30 card, while those who buy an 8-GB iPod Nano at $145 will get a $15 card.

GameStop, meanwhile, will open more than 800 U.S. stores at 12:01 a.m. Friday, it said. Its other 3,700 stores will open at 5 a.m. Customers arriving between midnight and noon will be offered various doorbuster deals, while supplies last. Those who buy a new 4-GB Xbox 360 at its regular price will get either Madden NFL 11 or Medal of Honor, both from Electronic Arts, for free. Each game normally sells for $59.99. Consumers who buy a 160-GB PS3 at its normal price will get Sony’s game God of War I, II, and III free, an “$80 value,” GameStop said. Customers who buy a new black or white Wii at its normal price will get the games Just Dance from Ubisoft and Nintendo’s Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort for free, a “$90 value,” the retailer said. GameStop will also offer 50 percent savings on the games Final Fantasy XIII from Konami and THQ’s UFC Undisputed 2010, $19.99 each, and PS3, Wii and 360 accessory bundles, $29.99 each. Members of the GameStop PowerUp Rewards customer loyalty program will also receive double points on purchases midnight to 5 a.m., it said.

CVS is entering the computer age, promoting a Sylvania brand netbook PC at $94.88, down from its standard $250 price. The netbook is highlighted this week on the front of the pharmacy chain’s circular, which also included a Craig brand 13-inch LCD TV with 720p resolution at $88 and a Craig tower speaker with an iPod dock, four drivers and a 20-watt subwoofer ($78, down from $277). The Microsoft Windows CE 6.0-based netbook features Via Technologies’ 400 MHz 8505 processor, 128 MB of RAM, 2 GB hard drive, 802.11 b/g wireless, 1,800-milliampere battery, 7-inch LCD with 800x480 resolution and an SD card slot. Digital Gadgets, which is marketing the netbook, licensed the Sylvania brand from Osram.

Borders deals running from Wednesday through Sunday include e-readers priced as low as $89.99 for the Aluratek Libre eBook Reader Pro. That’s “$30 off the lost price,” Borders said. The retailer is also offering the Kobo wireless e-reader at $119.99, $20 off its normal price (in-store only); the entry-level Kobo at $99.99, $20 off; the Sony Pocket Edition Reader at $149.99, $30 off; the Sony Touch Edition Reader at $199.99, $30 off; the Velocity Micro Cruz Reader at $149.99, $50 off; and the Velocity Micro Cruz Tablet at $249.99, $50 off, Borders said. The retailer is also offering Blu-ray movies priced “as low as $7.99,” 50 percent off select recently-released CDs in-store only), some DVDs at $4.99, and 50 percent off select videogames in-store only, it said.

Borders Rewards loyalty program members were also offered a 50-percent-off in-store coupon that the chain said can be redeemed “on thousands of items.” It distributed the coupon to about 14 million consumers “via newspaper inserts running in 28 markets nationwide,” Borders said. The coupon can be used at Borders stores Friday through Sunday. Also, through Tuesday, consumers who join its Rewards Plus program for $20 will get $10 in bonus Borders Bucks that can be redeemed Dec. 26 through Jan. 11, it said.