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Big-screen TVs, game consoles draw holiday shoppers

Apple iPads weren’t the only hot consumer electronics products bringing in shoppers on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. Big-screen televisions and video game consoles had buyers in a frenzy at the start of the holiday shopping season. Target (TGT) said Friday that one door-buster item, the 50-inch Element LED HDTV for $229, “sold out in a matter of minutes” at many locations. The television regularly lists for $500. Eden Prairie, Minn.-based Element Electronics boasts that it is the only American TV maker that assembles its sets in the U.S. Other hot sale items at Target included a 40-inch Samsung LED HDTV (for $398, 20% off), Beats by Dr. Dre Solo headphones ($119, 33% off), Nintendo (NTDOY) 3DS XL portable game system ($150, 25% off) and Zoomer the robot dog from Spin Master. Wal-Mart (WMT) said Friday that it sold 2 million televisions on

It’s beginning to look a lot like an iPad Christmas

Best Buy (BBY), Target and Wal-Mart used Apple iPad tablets as door-buster sale items late Thursday and Friday, and reports indicate they were a huge hit with holiday shoppers. Wal-Mart (WMT) said Friday that it sold 1.4 million tablets overall on Thanksgiving and noted that the iPad Mini (bundled with a $100 Wal-Mart gift card) was a top seller. Target (TGT) said Friday that the iPad Air was one of its hot items. The retailer offered the new model tablet for $479, which is $20 less than Apple ‘s (AAPL) list price, along with a $100 Target gift card, dropping the effective price to $379. “Early indications are that it may be an iPad holiday season,” Global Equities Research analyst Trip Chowdhry said in a research note Friday. At a Target store in San Francisco Chowdhry noted that more than 400 people were lined up at the store Thursday evening, many…

Apple iPads selling for Crazy Eddie prices on Black Friday

Apple (AAPL) is set to have a bang-up holiday selling season, assuming it can make enough iPad tablets to meet demand. Best Buy (BBY), Target (TGT) and Wal-Mart (WMT) are using big promotional deals on Apple’s tablets to get shoppers into stores starting Thanksgiving evening. Target and Wal-Mart are selling the just-released iPad Air for $479, which is $20 less than Apple ‘ s (AAPL)list price. But on Black Friday, Target is giving out $100 Target gift cards when you buy any regular-sized iPad, dropping the effective price for the iPad Air to $379. Meanwhile, Best Buy will offer the iPad Air for $449, a $50 discount over the list price. Of course, the catch is “while supplies last.” Retailers also are offering crazy deals on Apple’s first-generation iPad Mini. On Black Friday, Target is giving $75 gift cards when you buy an iPad Mini, dropping the effective price to $224 for the entry-level model. And Wal-Mart is offering a $100 gift card with the purchase of an iPad Mini at the regular price of $299 on Thursday evening, knocking the price down to $199.