Black Friday is perhaps the most important day of the year for retailers worldwide -- the massive discounts they offer bring in holiday shoppers looking to score deals. There couldn't be a worse time for a company's website to suffer an outage,

Best Buy started offering Black Friday deals earlier than everyone else ( on Halloween — scary!), but at this point in the season, it's hardly the only store in Black Friday mode. Most major retailers' holiday discounts are already live well ahead of Black Friday proper on Nov. 28, making the competition pretty ferocious.

Just days before the biggest shopping day of the year, Richfield-based electronics retailer Best Buy’s website crashed Monday morning, reportedly due to a glitch in the site’s sales tax calculator. For about an hour, a message on the site read: “We ...

People will soon be able to buy Fanatics sportswear and Martha Stewart cookware, along with all kinds of electronics, on the Best Buy website. The retailer announced Tuesday morning it has re-entered the third-party marketplace business. It’s a low-risk ...

But despite those concerns, shoppers hit the stores in full strength on Black Friday, with some even sipping champagne as they searched for discounts on the day that traditionally kicks off the holiday shopping season.

Despite the economic uncertainty, shoppers went hunting Friday morning for the deals that retailers traditionally have reserved for the day after Thanksgiving. At Macy’s Herald Square flagship store in New York City,

Right now, you can save up to 50% on Amazon devices for Black Friday, including the Kindle Colorsoft, at its lowest price of the year.

Black Friday is officially here, and retailers are offering notable deals on travel during the event. You’ll also find sales on beauty, tech, gifts and more, many of which run through Cyber Monday. I cover the biggest sales of the year as a writer for NBC Select,