Black Friday kicks off the holiday shopping season, and occurs the Friday after Thanksgiving each year. http://www.cyberblackfriday.com/history-of-cyber-black-friday/ Many retailers also offer a number of Black Friday online deals for shoppers that are unable to shop in stores on Black Friday. http://www.northjersey.com/news/business/112509_Cyber_shopping_on_Thanksgiving_Day_a_growing_tradition.html Online deals include sales by online-only outlets as well as retailers that also operate several brick-and-mortar locations.

In 2010, Black Friday online deals will be offered my many traditional retailers. It is expected that more retailers will add online deals to their Black Friday sales ads in 2010, in an effort to appeal to a wider variety of consumers. http://blackfriday.become.com/news/2010/black-friday-online-shopping-savvy.html The 2010 Walmart Black Friday sales ad contains online deals for a handful of Walmart items that can only be purchased over the Internet. Wal-Mart is also offering free shipping on over 60,000 products for the holiday shopping season. http://www.walmart.com/cp/black-friday-deals/1076614?prevTerm=black%20friday

Exclusive Wal-Mart Black Friday online deals include a Ronco Rocker knife set for $20 and a heated electric throw for $25. http://www.walmart.com/cp/Local-Ad/542313?povid=cat14503-env172199-module102110-lLink1_LA Additional Black Friday online deals can be found through eBay, who has already rolled out a holiday deals alert program. http://investor.ebay.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=343519 The newly-introduced eBay Bucks program also allows consumers to save an additional amount of money throughout the holiday season by earning rewards on eBay purchases. http://pages.ebay.com/rewards/terms.html

Amazon Black Friday deals are expected to be released on the Monday before Thanksgiving. http://www.amazon.com/b/?ie=UTF8&node=384082011&tag=googhydr-20&hvadid=4340030199&ref=pd_sl_9uys1egui_b The online retailer has offered Black Friday online deals since 2006 for holiday shoppers who prefer to avoid the crowds and shop from home the day after Thanksgiving. http://notebooks.com/2010/11/21/amazon-com-black-friday-deals-unveiled-monday-sure-to-impress/ Amazon Black Friday online deals are not exclusive to the day after Thanksgiving, however. Holiday shoppers can take advantage of deals on Amazon for the entire week of Thanksgiving in 2010.