Tips on Snagging Black Friday Deal

Every year, it seems like the store-side campgrounds pop up even earlier for Black Friday. A shopping writer has some tips on getting great Black Friday deals.

Allison Kaplan is the shopping writer for the Pioneer Press. For three years, she has run her own shopping website, Alishops.com .

She advises shoppers to Google “Black Friday ads,” there are a number of sites that already got their hands on them and scanned them in.

Limited inventory is always the case on Black Friday. Stores and economists told FOX 9 that's what you'll find all season is stocking less because last year, they got stuck with leftovers. That puts more pressure to find it on Black Friday, but more pressure on stores to have deals you wants.

Kaplan says, truly serious Black Friday shoppers win like this. She says shoppers will team up and split up so they don’t waste time.

Shoppers can also get some deals before Friday/ Some Black Friday deals are made available Thursday on store websites.