Black Friday is starting more than a week early at Amazon. The retailer will begin offering holiday deals beginning Nov. 21 this year, with new specials hitting through Nov. 29 (the actual date of Black Friday in 2024).

After spending several weeks in the shadows while the other big retailers duked it out for the early Black Friday announcement spotlight, Amazon finally announced dates for its end-of-November schedule on Nov. 13: Amazon's Black Friday event will start on Thursday, Nov. 21, and run through (Cyber) Monday, Dec. 2, with new deals dropping every day.

November now, and that means Black Friday and Cyber Monday are right around the corner. I have vivid memories of my mom going out on Thanksgiving night after dinner so she could be at the local Walmart,