As Black Friday ads "leak" from retailers like Best Buy, Target, Walmart and more, the path to holiday shopping Armageddon is looking more and more like a minefield. Most stores are offering similar deals, doling out special incentives to get you through their doors. Luckily we're here to provide you with a map of the hottest deals. Follow along below for steals like a Samsung Galaxy SIII smartphone for 96 Cents, tablets for under $100, and more.
Kohls
Black Friday deals will be available at Kohls from Midnight Nov. 22 to Midnight Nov. 24. Kohls is offering $15 Kohls Cash for every $50 you spend in store (except on gift card purchases) between Wednesday Nov. 21 and Sunday Nov. 25, which you can redeem from Nov. 26 to Dec. 3.
20-50 percent off electronics during Early Bird deals.
7-inch Polaroid Android tablet with front-facing camera and 4GB of memory for $89.99 (after $30 mail-in rebate).
10.1-inch Polaroid Android Tablet for $149.99 with Android 4.0 and front and rear-facing cameras
Vivitar 16.1MP cameras for $49.99
16MP Polaroid camera with 21x zoom and HD video for $129.99 (after $20 mail-in rebate)
Vivitar digital video recorders featuring 180-degree swivel display screen, 4x digital zoom, and built-in microphone for $24.99.
Vivitar 12.1MP high definition 1080p digital video camcorder for $59.99, featuring 2.7-inch full touch screen, and 4x digital zoom.
Radioshack
Online deals start at Midnight Thanksgiving day. In store deals run fro 6 a.m. on Nov. 23 to Nov. 24.
Samsung Galaxy S III. This phone is $49.99 with a two-year Sprint contract, saving $150 over the usual price with contract. This isn't better than Sprint's own offer, but RadioShack is also giving customers $10 of store credit for every $50 they spend. Wilson suggests throwing in an inexpensive pack of batteries for $1.99 to get the total over $50, qualify for the credit and get the best deal so far on this phone.
Kindle Fire HD. At $199.99, it's not actually marked down, but you get $30 in store credit. Get your order over $200 and you get $40 in store credit. Or buy the traditional Kindle e-reader for $69.99 and receive $10 back in store credit.
Toshiba 15.6-inch HD LED screen Windows 8 Laptop with Intel Celeron Processor and 4GB of memory and 320GB hard drive for $299.99.
A Digix 10-inch tablet with 8GB of memory, Android 4.0, Wi-Fi, and mini-HDMI port for $149.99.
An HP 14-inch LED Laptop with HD screen Windows 8 and Beats Audio 6GB memory, and 500GB hard drive for $499.99.
Apex 32-inch LED HDTV for $199.99, or 24-inch 1080p LED HDTV for $149.99 with another $20 back in store credit.
Panasonic HC-V10M with 70x optical zoom for $149.99 with another $20 back in store credit.
Sam's Club
Sam's Club is the membership-only chain owned and operated by Walmart. Sam's Club will open their doors at 7:00 a.m. on Black Friday. However, users can shop SamsClub.com starting the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday Nov. 21, at 11:00 p.m. EST. Starbucks will be also be offering free coffee and treats to Sam's Club early bird shoppers.
Sam's Club may have already won "best deal of the shopping season" with this one: The retailer plans to sell the Samsung Galaxy S3 for 96 cents ($0.96) the day after Thanksgiving. If you're a part of the club, you can pick up the hottest phone of the year for less than a dollar, as long as you sign a new 2-year contract.
HP Pavilion Sleekbook Notebook PC, 14-inch HD LED display, Windows 8, 6GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive
"A decent price for an Intel Core i5/6GB RAM/500GB HDD laptop of any kind, this is one of HP's recently redesigned Pavilion laptops, which look pretty sharp, even if they're mostly plastic. The Sleekbook name is HP's way of saying this is a very thin laptop, but one that doesn't meet Intel's exact specs for it to be called an ultrabook (most likely because of the lack of any SSD storage)," says CNET.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, 10-inch 16GB tablet for $249. Costing about $100 off the normal selling price, this is pretty great deal for a lower-end, full-sized tablet. The Galaxy Tab 2, 7-inch will be on sale for $179.99.