What to Shop For on Black Friday
PEREIRA: So, on this Thanksgiving, many retailers are opening their doors today and tonight, hoping to lure in shoppers. A new CNN/ORC poll shows that most Americans would rather wait. Only 12 percent of you plan to shop today, 22 percent plan to head out tomorrow. But for those who are going, what should you be on the lookout for? And what are you better off waiting for? Let's ask Brett Larson. He's our technology expert here.</s>BRETT LARSON, CNN TECHNOLOGY ANALYST: Hello.</s>PEREIRA: Good morning to you. And you're shopporific (ph). So, let's talk about this. Best Buys you're seeing for Black Friday so far? What's out there?</s>LARSON: So, I mean, I love that everybody leaks all their deals beforehand. This past Monday, you I'd see, oh, Best Buy has got a sale coming. I'm seeing lots of discounted tablets, lots of discounted everybody -- if you want a TV, everybody has got a cheap TV. I was in best buy, the aisle ways were lined with boxes of televisions. This is the time of year when everybody likes to buy a television. I have seen target's giving $100 gift card if you buy an iPad. Best Buy is knocking the price down 75 bucks. That's a good price for an iPad.</s>PEREIRA: So, on the flipside, what are the things we should hold off on and not buy right away, because there will be better deals, right?</s>LARSON: I mean, if you can wait until the New Year, I know that sounds ridiculous --</s>PEREIRA: It's hard.</s>LARSON: -- because people want to open things at the holiday, the electronic stuff gets cheaper in the New Year because they have got to get rid of it. Consumer electronics show is a week later and then everybody says that's last year's model TV and I don't want it. The reality is, though, on electronic stuff, what you buy is going to be good. A computer, you don't really want to buy last year's model because now you're two years behind. Other things I would say are going to get cheaper, a lot of accessories that come with our stuff. The iPhone cases, the headphones, the gadgetry that goes with our gadgetry, that will continue to drop in price.</s>PEREIRA: Here we're talking about Cyber Monday or Black Friday, but we should talk about Cyber Monday, but that's a trend that we're seeing a lot more, people going online. Hello, guilty as charged.</s>CUOMO: You're done with bricks and mortar.</s>PEREIRA: No, thank you.</s>CUOMO: You won't do it. You're done?</s>LARSON: I'm done. I don't like the crowds. I don't like having to wait in line.</s>CUOMO: The immediate gratification of getting the actual thing.</s>LARSON: My phone, I get an alert that says you just spent all this money on this Web site.</s>PEREIRA: You'd be honest, too.</s>LARSON: Listen, I'm immediately gratified, I spent my money. I got my alert from credit card. It's so much easier to shop online. This year, actually, more people are going to be shopping online.</s>CUOMO: Can't try things on.</s>LARSON: Well, that's -- I mean, for clothing --</s>PEREIRA: Well, that's why you don't like it?</s>FEYERICK: Otherwise, if you buy, then you have to return it. It's two steps. I'm only capable of one step.</s>LARSON: You could have gone in the store and tried it on. For clothing, I will admit, shopping online is very difficult. Unless it's a store you're familiar with. If you know I fit in a Banana Republic medium shirt, I will just buy the medium shirt, and a lot of returns online have gotten increasingly easier because they know that's the step that -- that's what keeps people from shopping online as well. If this doesn't work out, how difficult is it to give it back?</s>PEREIRA: Were you surprised by the low numbers of how many people were planning to head out today and tomorrow?</s>LARSON: I was pleasantly pleased. I was pleased --</s>CUOMO: Disproportionate number of them are men who think they'll get out of going.</s>FEYERICK: You don't think that plays into that at all.</s>CUOMO: I'm not going, then they get the look.</s>LARSON: You got</s>PEREIRA: Speaking of doorbuster deals, you're going to come back and talk to us tomorrow about the hottest items, right?</s>LARSON: Look, I have injured myself going through circulars --</s>CUOMO: Wow.</s>LARSON: Trying to find the good deals.</s>CUOMO: Got to go paperless.</s>LARSON: That's what the tablet is for.</s>CUOMO: Oh, you hurt yourself on the tablet? That's a personal problem.</s>PEREIRA: You can use the other finger.</s>LARSON: I can use the other finger. I'm ambidextrous when it comes to technology.</s>PEREIRA: Well, we appreciate you putting your body and soul into this. Happy Thanksgiving.</s>LARSON: Thank you.</s>CUOMO: Well, we have another original series to tell you about. CNN.com's "Wish You Were Here" featured the looks of daily lives of adventurous people around the world. So, today, we're going to meet a man making some acrobatic moves over the water. Check it out and go to CNN.com/wishyouwhere. Here it is.</s>GEOFFREY LARDY: I'm Geoffrey Lardy, and this is what it's like to fly over the water. It does feel like flying. It doesn't feel like anything else. It's not like sky driving because you're not dropping, so you're not falling into the air. You're really being pushed by the water and you're in control of your flight. It's a bit maybe like an astronaut would feel like. It's you flying and being in control of where you want to be and where you want to fly. It's great to be right there at the beginning with all those people you're, really trying to present an image of this brand new sport over the water.</s>PEREIRA: Wow. Sorry.</s>CUOMO: I don't even know how it works. That was magic.</s>PEREIRA: That was actual magic. Coming up, we're going to share some of our final thoughts. You know that tradition of giving thanks around the table? We're going to do that around our table, when it we come back.</s>CUOMO: Hopefully, it goes better than at my house.