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  • Navigate Black Friday Crowds With Milo's Real-Time Product Inventory And Deal Tracker

    Leena Rao

    Leena Rao is currently a Senior Editor for TechCrunch. She recently finished graduate school at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, where she studied business journalism and videography. From 2004 to 2007, she helped lead Congresswoman Carloyn Maloney’s community outreach and relations efforts in New York City. She graduated from Columbia University in 2003, where she was... → Learn More

    Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

    While the deals are great, Black Friday crowds are the worst. You have to get up at the crack of dawn, suffer madness in parking lots, only to fight with other shoppers over a limited quantity of marked down items. Today, Milo is giving you a tool that could help you avoid Black Friday crowds by checking product-inventory before you head to the mall or shopping center.

    On a designated Black Friday landing page, Milo will aggregate and track Black Friday
    discounts at national merchants, so shoppers can know when sale items sell out and where they remain in-stock. And Milo promises that all of these inventory listings are updated in real-time.

    The Milo.com Black Friday page aggregates sale prices and availability for more than 5,000 products, ranging from electronics and toys to apparel and home goods. To
    access the limited-time deals and see if a product is available with a special offer, shoppers can either browse the homepage or use the Black Friday filter, located on the sidebar of search pages.

    Milo, which includes real-time inventory information for over 52,000 national retailer locations, says that you can also use the company’s newly released Android app to access Black Friday deal updates as well.

    Company: Milo
    Website: milo.com
    Launch Date: 2008
    Funding: $4.95M

    Milo.com is a free Web site that enables shoppers to research products online and buy local, providing the best of both worlds. The leader in the local product search space, Milo.com tracks the real-time availability and prices of more than 2 million products at over 48,000 stores across the U.S. By combining the resources of the Web and the immediacy of local stores, Milo.com makes it easy for shoppers to research the best products, find the right prices and...

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