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Part shopper, part geek, all penny-wise. All of us here at deal locker really truely love the rush of getting a great deal. Even more we love to help our friends do the same. Deal Locker is in its infancy, but is focused on building a suite of tools designed to help you and your friends save money. Says DealLocker.com.

Donna Fuscaldo of Fox Business writes about an entrepreneur turning his frustrations with Internet coupons into a business plan for a new Web site.

His plan turned into DealLocker.com, where users are told to type in a merchants’ name to find all the coupons associated with that retailer. You can also browse through different categories, giving you potentially more opportunities to save, the site boasts.

“The idea behind the Web site is a really easy place to find coupons to stores,’’ said Jonathan Lieberman, founder and chief executive of deallocker.com.

Deallocker.com was born out of Lieberman’s aggravation sparked by Internet coupons. Lieberman, a former Internet marketer, would spend hours paging through websites trying to find those ever elusive coupons.

“You’d get to that checkout page and the empty coupon box would mock you,’’ said Lieberman. “I was so frustrated that I never had that secret code.”

DealLocker.com, which went live in August, currently has 2,500 participating merchants. But consumers are encouraged to post any coupons they find on their own on the Web. All told, the website boasts about 5,000 stores with roughly 20,000 coupons being offered. Lieberman said the company sees hundreds of thousands of visitors each month. More at FoxBusiness.

- Retail Store Operations Will Wind-Down, Offering Consumers Attractive Holiday Bargains on Computer and Electronics Products

DALLAS, Dec 07, ‘07 /PRNewswire/ — CompUSA today announced that it has been acquired by an affiliate of Gordon Brothers Group, LLC, a global advisory, restructuring and investment firm specializing in retail, consumer products, real estate and industrial sectors. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Gordon Brothers Group will initiate an orderly wind-down of CompUSA’s retail store operations and is engaged in discussions with various parties regarding the sale of certain assets. CompUSA’s 103 retail stores will remain open and staffed during the holiday season, and will offer consumers attractive bargains on computer and electronic products as part of store closing sales.

Active discussions are under way to sell select stores in key markets as well as the company’s highly-regarded technical services business,
CompUSA TechPro, and its productive Internet sales operation, CompUSA.com. CompUSA TechPro and CompUSA.com will be operated by the company as going concerns until any sale transactions are closed.

CompUSA will be run by Bill Weinstein, a Principal at Gordon Brothers Group, acting as Interim President, and by Stephen Gray, Managing Partner at restructuring firm CRG Partners, who will serve as Chief Restructuring Officer. Current CEO Roman Ross will continue to serve the company in an executive advisory capacity during the transition period.

DJM Realty, a Gordon Brothers Group company that specializes in real estate disposition and valuations, will assist in assessing the leases for
CompUSA’s store locations. More at PRNewsWire.

BENTONVILLE, Ark — Dec 06, 2007 — Wal-Mart announces today it is turning back the calendar with another “Black Friday”-style price event this weekend, unveiling new “Secret In-Store Specials” today on Walmart.com. With savings up to 30% on electronics and other items, Wal-Mart also brings the popular Webkinz toys to its stores nationwide for this event, beginning 8 a.m. Friday, Dec. 7 through Sunday while supplies last.

Since Nov 2, Wal-Mart has offered three rounds of “Secret In-Store Specials,” revealing on its Web site groups of items with incredible values for Christmas shoppers. Millions of customers have signed up for e-mail and text message alerts through Walmart.com to learn of these specials as soon as they are unveiled.

A few examples of the items and prices available tomorrow at 8 a.m. include:

• 50 inch Vizio plasma TV - $998
• 1 MB Gateway Laptop - $398
• Toshiba HD-A3 HD-DVD player (with 12 free HD-DVDs) - $298

Through the weekend, Wal-Mart will continue to keep spirits festive offering free photos with Santa in stores from 10 am to 2 pm on Saturdays and Sundays and exciting demonstrations and samples in its Christmas Shops. More at Wal-Mart.

Nov 26, ‘07 — Walmart.com, hoping consumers did not get their fill of shopping over the long Thanksgiving weekend, will roll out more holiday deals online every day this week. Reuters reports.

“The site will offer special prices on 150 items — three times more than a year ago — posting roughly 65 discounts on Monday and then adding new deals to the site daily through Friday.

Walmart.com will also promote one special “featured” item each day, like Monday’s Xbox 360 bundle, which includes Microsoft’s Xbox 360 premium video game console, an extra controller, three games and messenger bag for $399.” More at Reuters.

Wal-Mart Unbelievable Online Specials, Electronics Specials.

BENTONVILLE, Ark – Nov. 19, 2007 – For the first time ever, Wal-Mart is moving the traditional “Black Friday” shopping event up one day early, aiming to catch early-bird shoppers as the turkey hits the table. Also today, Wal-Mart announces one of its “Secret In-Store Specials,” available this Friday – a KitchenAid Classic Stand Mixer for $139 – and posts on-line its entire “Black Friday” advertising circular, full of great savings on hundreds of items.

Three Days of Black Friday Deals, Starting

• Online Thursday: On Thanksgiving Day, shoppers can go to Walmart.com to find online specials on many of the season’s hottest items in electronics, toys, apparel and home, with free shipping through its Site to Store program. While on the site Thursday, shoppers also can see Wal-Mart’s Friday “Secret In-Store Specials” – additional savings not in the circular and available in stores the next day.

• In Stores Friday: From 5 a.m. to 11 a.m. Nov. 23, Wal-Mart stores will ring in huge savings on traditional Black Friday offers advertised in its circular and through its “Secret In-Store Specials” revealed online. Friday’s specials will be available while supplies last. Also on Friday, Walmart.com will reveal a new set of “Secret In-Store Specials” available Saturday through Sunday. 

• In Stores Saturday: Beginning Saturday, Nov. 24, at 8 a.m., shoppers can grab savings on a totally new set of “Secret In-Store Specials” available while supplies last through Sunday.   In addition, many items advertised in Wal-Mart’s Black Friday circular are also available through Saturday.

“It’s time to expand ‘Black Friday’ into three full days for the millions who want this convenience and need these savings,” says John Fleming, chief merchandising officer, Wal-Mart Stores U.S. “With strong preparations and more registers open than ever before, we’re looking forward to welcoming America into our stores.”

A taste of special Thanksgiving Day savings only on www.walmart.com include:

• Motorola H670 Bluetooth Earset - $24.87 (nearly 60% savings)
• Zune 30GB MP3 Video Player - $98.87 (nearly 25% savings)
• Garmin Nuvi 650 Portable GPS System - $298.87 (more than 30% savings)

Examples of “Black Friday” circular savings in Wal-Mart stores offered Friday, 5 a.m. through 11 a.m. include:

• Polaroid 32 inch LCD HDTV - $448 ($100 savings)
• Polaroid 42 inch LCD HDTV - $798 ($400 savings)
• Sony Cybershot Camera (7.2 MP) -  $79.87 ($50 savings)
• 8 inch Digital Picture Frame - $49.84 ($50 savings)
• Garmin Street Pilot c330 GPS - $128.88 ($50 savings)
• Select Toys for just $10 – such as the Transformers Bonus 2-pack, Little Mommie Bedtime Baby, Chicken Dance Elmo, Scene It Jr. DVD Board Game, and Moon Sand Sandcastle (savings up to 50%)

More at Wal-Mart.

BELLEVUE, Wash — BUSINESS WIRE — Nov 14, ‘07 — Chaago.com, an online travel exchange for hotels and travelers, has launched its web site to save consumers money on hotels for this upcoming holiday season. Chaago.com is positioning itself as “a friend of consumers and hotels” by offering consumers a new online avenue to search for hotel deals and to make-your-own-deal without ever entering a credit card number and without any obligation.

Chaago.com prides itself on providing all its services to consumers for FREE while not charging hotels a penny of commissions.

How it works:

“Chaago.com was created by a team of hoteliers who were ‘a little tired’ of the way things work in the online hotel industry, where other travel web sites are milking travelers and hotels by charging high fees and markup,” said Michael Schmitt, COO of Chaago.com.

“For example, the $100.00 rate someone pays for a hotel room booked through a popular online travel site means that the hotel gets about $70.00 to $75.00 because that room was booked online. That translates to a 25- to 30-percent commission rate.

Check it out at Chaago.com.

Nov 01, ‘07–As wal-Mart promised us yesterday, holiday deals has started arriving earlier this year. Starting Friday, Nov-02, 8 AM you can get this Toshiba HD-A2 DVD player for $99 and other ”In-Store Specials” at your local Wal-Mart.

Best Buy too has also jumped in to race of holiday deals not to left behind by Wal-Mart and is offering the same High-Def DVD player for $99. Though at the time of posting it was out of stock at Best Buy. More at Wal-Mart, Best Buy.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. – October 31, 2007 – The nation’s largest retailer officially kicks off the Christmas season today by granting a valuable holiday wish to its customers – savings on the gifts they want to give.

Shoppers need not wait until after Thanksgiving for great deals. Wal-Mart will offer black-Friday prices three weeks early when the retailer unveils secret in-store specials: extraordinary prices on five of the most sought after gifts this season. Understanding that more and more consumers are using the internet to comparison shop,

Wal-Mart plans to reveal online a round of unbeatable savings on Thursday. The items will be available in stores beginning Friday morning, November 2 as the merchant officially opens special Christmas shops.

All year long, Wal-Mart saves people money so they can live better – in fact, independent research shows that Wal-Mart will save families more than $650 this Christmas season. 

“Our customers can fulfill all their holiday needs at Wal-Mart and not only save money, but buy gifts they can be proud to give,” said John Fleming, chief merchandising officer Wal-Mart Stores U.S.

Customers can sign up for email or text message alerts or go online Thursday at http://www.walmart.com/secret to be the first to learn the secrets items and these knock out prices. More at Wal-Mart

On the heels of Wal-Mart, Circuit City has started selling Toshiba A2 HD DVD player for $197.99. Add it in to the cart to see yourself. This year’s “Day After Thanks Giving Sales” going to be too good with deals like this popping up way early in the game. Circuit City

As per AVS Forum, Wal-Mart will start selling Toshiba’s A2 HD DVD player for $198 on November 3, ‘07. Forum member cdzie1 has posted this picture as a visual proof. Few forum members are reporting that some Wal-Marts have started selling this very low, low priced Toshiba A2 HD DVD player.

More at AVS Forum

IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Gateway, Inc. is encouraging consumers to get in a jolly gift-giving mood early this year with the debut of its holiday line of eMachines® desktop PCs and displays.

eMachines T5234 Desktop Configuration:

-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
-AMD Athlon 64×2 4000+ Processor (64-bit processing, 2.1GHz, 2 X 512MB L2 cache, 2000MHz FSB)
-NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE integrated graphics with up to 128MB shared video
-1024MB DDR2 Memory
-320GB SATA II 7200RPM Hard Drive
-DVD+/-R/RW Dual Layer Drive
-15-in-1 Digital Media Reader
-Price starting at $434.99 after a mail-in rebate of $50

eMachines T3626 Desktop Configuration:

-Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
-AMD Sempron 3800+ processor (2.2GHz, 256KB L2 cache, 1600MHz FSB)
-NVIDIA GeForce 6100 integrated graphics with up to 128MB shared video
-1024MB DDR2 Memory
-160GB 7200RPM Hard Drive
-DVD+/-R/RW Dual Layer Drive
-15-in-1 Digital Media Reader
-Price starting at $349.99 after a mail-in rebate of $50

More at eMachines

Woot is offering refurbished Brown Zune 30GB for $79. And if you have previously bought a brown Zune for $99.99, you’re eligible for $20 off coupon on any order of $20 or more before shipping, on any Woot site.

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