Apple Continues Promotional Flurry With Best Buy, Target Deals on Phones, Tablets
Green Monday, traditionally the third largest holiday shopping day behind Black Friday and Cyber Monday, brought more Apple discounts to consumers. Apple has been active with promotions since the holiday season began in November (see 1611010039) and that continued last weekend with a two-day exclusive Best Buy sale leading up to Green Monday (see 1612080074).
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Best Buy customers shopping Green Monday deals could save $50 on an iPhone 7 and receive a $250 Best Buy gift card when they traded in an iPhone 6 or newer phone with activation and a monthly installment plan for Verizon, AT&T or Sprint. Under the offer, a 256 GB iPhone 7 would price out to $34.38 a month over 24 months, while a 32 GB model would carry a $21.67 charge over 30 months, an ad said.
Target discounted the iPad Mini 4 by 10 percent in its Green Monday sale, bringing the price of the starter 16 GB model to $314 and the 128 GB version to $449. Shoppers who ordered Monday will get their tablets by Friday with free standard shipping, Target said. Apple’s Beats Solo 2 on-ear heaphones, in pink, were dropped from $199 to $89 Monday at the big box retailer, and wireless Bluetooth Powerbeats 2 earbuds were chopped from $199 to $99.
At Walmart, a 16 GB prepaid iPhone 5s from Straight Talk had a Green Monday price of $149, for $301 in savings. Vizio was a headliner in Walmart Green Monday sales with a Class E Series 50-inch 4K Ultra HD TV discounted by $130 to $398. Shipping was free for Saturday arrival and $5.97 to arrive Thursday.
Additional Green Monday deals at Best Buy: a Galaxy S7 for a buck and an S7 edge for $99 on a two-year Verizon agreement; a Toshiba 65-inch 4K TV with Chromecast slashed $200 to $599; an HP 15-inch laptop with an Intel i3 Core processor for $349; and 30 percent discounts on Skullcandy headphones.
Klipsch advertised as much as 50 percent off for select items in its Green Monday email blast to customers. Its X4i earbuds were cut even more to $45 from $149, while the Klipsch R-14M monitors were halved to $99 per pair. Subwoofer discounts weren’t as dramatic: the R-115SW was trimmed to $719 from $899.
Skullcandy snipped the price of its Ink’d Wireless earbuds to $35 from $50 and its Grind Wireless on-ear headphones to $63 from $90 in its Green Monday promotion.
Dell was in heavy promotional mode on Green Monday, pushing its highly rated XPS 13 solid-state drive laptop, with Intel i5 processor, as a doorbuster priced at a 14 percent discount to $949. The slim-line laptop deal was in limited supply but only 42 percent had sold by late afternoon. Dell was giving away a monitor with the purchase of a desktop PC. The PC maker also took $20 off an Inspiron 11 3000, with Intel Celeron processor and a 32 GB embedded multimedia controller drive, bringing it to $179.