Sam's Club has opened its Black Friday sales early, with the Dyson V8 Cyclone cordless vacuum at $249 (down $150 from $399) and a 16-inch HP OmniBook 3 laptop at $599 (down $300 from $899).
The sale runs in waves. The Weekend Doorbusters ran November 6 to 8. A pre-Black Friday ad runs November 15 through November 25, and the main sale starts online on Thanksgiving Day, November 26, and lasts through November 29. Warehouses stay closed on Thanksgiving and open at 8 a.m. on Black Friday for members. Member markdowns are already live.
Other listed prices include a Ninja Crispi portable glass air fryer at $119.98 (was $159.98), a Samsung 55-inch Mini LED 4K TV at $297.99 (was $347.99) and an LG 4.1 cu. ft. top-load washer at $615 (was $945). A Samsung 65-inch Neo Mini LED TV drops $300 to $797.99, and the 17.3-inch OmniBook 3 falls $350 to $649.
Every one of these requires a membership, which costs $50 a year for standard access or $110 for Plus. Plus adds early online access to doorbusters.
That fee changes the math. The Dyson, laptop and washer discounts each exceed the standard fee several times over, so a shopper already planning one big purchase comes out ahead. The $40 air fryer cut and the $50 TV cut only match or fall short of it. The TV is also the thinnest deal in percentage terms, at about 14% off, against roughly 38% for the Dyson and 35% for the washer.
The $599 laptop deserves a second look. It pairs an Intel Core Ultra 5 chip with 8GB of memory and a 512GB drive, which suits email, streaming and video calls but is not a machine for heavy work. The Dyson's "up to 60 minutes" of run time is the manufacturer's figure.
Whether the Thanksgiving wave cuts deeper than these early prices is not yet public. The published ad lists only the early markdowns.