Move Over Black Friday: These Are The Best Singles Day 2019 Deals Available Now

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The 11/11 Global Shopping Festival, or Singles Day for short, generates more online sales than Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Prime Day put together.

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Updated Nov. 11 at 9:26 a.m. PT with the latest Singles Day and Veterans Day offers and deals available now. Most expire at the end of today. 
With almost [ ], China's yearly 24-hour 11/11 Global Shopping Festival is now bigger than Thanksgiving, [/holiday-gift-guide/black-friday/ Black Friday], [/holiday-gift-guide/cyber-monday/ Cyber Monday] and the weekend in between [ combined]. Adobe Analytics predicts this year's five-day Thanksgiving weekend will drive about $29 billion in online sales. So, why have so few Americans even heard of Singles Day?

The history of the world's biggest shopping day of the year begins with a much smaller, lonelier numeral -- the number 1. The unofficial Chinese holiday celebrated every Nov. 11 started out as Singles Day in 1993, when [ students at Nanjing University] in China's Jiangsu province began hosting singles parties meant to counter the negative social stigma associated with singlehood. Since this was a holiday designed to bring singles together, [ ]. And it only grew Profit from the Internet there, especially after being supercharged by Chinese retail giants Alibaba and JD in the more recent online era -- right down to including a giant [ Taylor Swift concert] to boot. 





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Thus far, efforts to internationalize the big shopping day haven't caught on -- the date is Veterans Day in the US, Armistice Day in Europe. But in the end, it may come down to semantics and SEO: Whether you call it a Veterans Day sale, an early Black Friday sale or a Singles Day sale -- a deal's a deal, right?

To that end, we're pulling together the best sales we're seeing.