Black Friday 2024 – live: Latest news and early deals
Retailers are kicking off early, with deals on everything from AirPods to skincare products
The biggest sale of the year is still a few weeks away but early Black Friday offers have already started dropping across major retailers. To help you spot the best deals, our Black Friday liveblog is tracking the latest discounts on everything from tech, TVs and laptops to beauty, clothing, mattresses and home appliances.
Whether you’re shopping for a Ninja air fryer, a Simba mattress, the Apple Airpods or anything in between – the likes of Samsung, Zara, Lookfantastic and Amazon are dropping prices across entire ranges of products.
With discounts popping up earlier every year, we’re expecting even more brands to launch their Black Friday events ahead of the official sale dates (29 November to 2 December). Boots, Argos, Currys, Dyson and John Lewis have all kicked off proceedings with what many of them are calling their biggest Black Friday sales ever. Elsewhere, hundreds of deals are arriving across pretty much every category you can think of.
We’ve been covering the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales for years here at IndyBest, so, we know how to spot a good deal from a dud. If it’s got a decent discount (and it’s worth your money), you’ll find it here.
Read more: Best early Black Friday deals to shop, according to a shopping expert
Looking for more headphone deals?
We have an entire Black Friday deals page dedicated to headphones and earphones, where you’ll find the Sony WH-1000XM5 we just mentioned alongside a whole lot more.
The best headphones deals we’re expecting this Black Friday
We’re rounding up the best early discounts on headphones from Bose, Apple AirPods, Sony and more
The Sony WH-1000XM5 has £100 off at Amazon
This isn’t technically a Black Friday deal, but we’re not going to ignore it on a technicality: our pick of the best wireless headphones has almost 30 per cent off at Amazon.
You can have any colour you like, so long as it’s silver. Thankfully, Sony’s silver colourway looks great – it reminds us of the colour of every PC in the 90s.
Sony WH-1000XM5 wireless headphones: Was £379, now £274, Amazon.co.uk
Our tester was blown away by these new Sony headphones, impressed with their noise-cancelling abilities and crystal clarity. They said: “whether it’s orchestral music, rap, podcasts or your favourite pop tracks, the WH-1000XM5 handles it all with poise and gumption, and it never misses a beat”.
Get £210 off the Lego Millennium Falcon
Let’s turn our attention to Argos, which has never quite been the same ever since they got rid of those massive catalogues. In any case the retailer is already shin-deep in Black Friday deals, with discounts to be found across its vast range of products.
You’ll find the very best Argos deals in our full guide, but here’s one that would make a great Christmas gift for a Star Wars fan who’s been exceptionally good this year.
Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon collector series set: Was £735, now £525, Argos.co.uk
This 7,541-piece collector’s item is reduced by a whopping £210 for Black Friday. The Lego Star Wars Millennium Falcon set features a cockpit with enough room for a tiny Han Solo and Chewie, plus the dealer’s choice of C-3PO, Leia and three other characters from the newer films whose names nobody can remember.
Here’s £300 off the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6
We’re also seeing early Black Friday deals over at Samsung’s official storefront, where the tech giant is dropping prices on everything from phones to fridges.
Here’s our full guide to the best Black Friday Samsung deals, but we want to highlight this great offer on the newest Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6.
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6: Was £1,799, now £1,499, Samsung.com
Samsung’s best foldable gets a massive £300 discount for Black Friday, bringing the price of the 256GB version down to £1,499. Trade in your existing phone and Samsung will offer you up to £670 for your old handset too. The Galaxy Z Fold 6 features in our round-up of the best folding phones, where our tester rates it for its premium design and fast performance.
AO Black Friday deals are live
Electrical retailer AO kicked off its Black Friday deals just a few minutes ago, with hundreds of discounts now available across its range of TVs, beauty products, home appliances and more.
We’ve spotted a £70 discount on the Ninja foodi dual zone air fryer, and that’s just for starters.
Ninja foodi dual zone air fryer: Was £199, now £129, AO.com
With a generous 7.6l capacity, this air fryer has enough room for absolutely loads of chips. It has the full suite of features you’d expect: straightforward timers telling you when to add food, shake things up and take things out; automatic switch-off; and two cooking zones, so everything finishes at the same time. It’s also dishwasher friendly, so it doesn’t turn into an uncleanable grease trap over time.
Early Black Friday deals at Boots
Let’s kick things off by taking a look at those eager retailers who just couldn’t hang around until 29 November to start dropping their Black Friday deals.
First up is high-street pharmacy Boots, historic purveyor of cosmetics, electric toothbrushes, cheap meal deals and hangover cures.
You’ll find a full set of early discounts in our full Boots guide, but here’s a top deal on the Oral-B iO8 toothbrush.
Oral-B iO8 electric toothbrush: Was £450, now £140, Boots.com
If you’ve been waiting to upgrade to the Oral-B iO series, here’s your best offer: a £310 discount on the Oral-B iO8 electric toothbrush. In our guide to the best electric toothbrushes, our expert put the newer iO9 iteration to the test, praising its brushing technology (which also features in the iO 8) and how the “mechanical action of the fast-moving brush can more easily get into those hard-to-reach areas”.
Good morning shoppers!
Welcome back to the Black Friday liveblog, where all day we’ll be highlighting the best early deals in this year’s sale.
Black Friday doesn’t technically start until 29 November, but that hasn’t stopped retailers jumping the gun with early discounts. Boots, John Lewis, Currys and Argos are all offering deals today.
And who can blame them? We’re all excited. Excited for deals.
I’m a shopping expert, and these are the best early Black Friday deals to shop
Shop offers ahead of the main event, with deals from Dyson, Apple, The Ordinary and more
Your Black Friday 2024 cheat sheet
This year, the sale lands on Friday 29 November, and will last a full four days before concluding on Cyber Monday (2 December). However, myriad brands and retailers kicked off their Black Friday sales early – see Boots, Argos, John Lewis and Currys.
So, in the weeks leading up to Black Friday, I will be busy hunting down the crème de la crème of early deals, spanning tech, beauty, fashion and more, along with my fellow IndyBest shopping experts.
Whether you’re in the market for a new moisturiser or cordless vacuum, we’ve rounded up the best early Black Friday offers below, plus the deals we can expect during the main event - consider it your cheat sheet to the sale. Have a lovely evening, and happy shopping!
I’m a shopping expert, and these are the best early Black Friday deals to shop
Shop offers ahead of the main event, with deals from Dyson, Apple, The Ordinary and more
Why is it called Black Friday?
The first use of the term ‘Black Friday’ is thought to date back to the Fifties, in Philadelphia, where the local police department used the term to describe the huge traffic jams, overcrowded pavements and mobbed stores in the city on the day after Thanksgiving.
It wasn’t until the 1980s that the phrase caught on in the rest of the US, and was used as a marketing ploy to promote the consumer event and encourage sales. It was then deployed as a reference to the financial status of stores, as they went from being “in the red” to “in the black”, as profits increased.
The sale still falls the day after Thanksgiving each year, but it’s evolved into a huge four-day event that concludes the following Monday, also known as Cyber Monday, which falls on 2 December this year.
Don’t sleep on these mattress deals
Considering we spend around a third of our lives asleep, a good-quality mattress is an important investment.
But, let’s face it, they can be eye-wateringly expensive. Enter: the Black Friday discounts, which can help you save hundreds of pounds on your next mattress.
Deals are available from the likes of Simba, Emma and Hypnos, on all sizes and types of mattresses, including memory foam, hybrid and pocket sprung options. If you’re in the market for an update, don’t sleep on the best savings around right now...
Best Black Friday mattress deals to expect in 2024
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