Black Friday Shoppers, Come to the Tri-Cities in Michigan for the Best Deals

If you are north of the Detroit Metro area and do not want to deal with traveling to Detroit for your Black Friday shopping fun, why not try the Tri-City area? The Tri-Cities (Midland, Bay City, and Saginaw) and the surrounding communities have many of the same shopping options for Black Friday as the Detroit area, but there will not be as many people or as much traffic.

Bay City - Bay City, Michigan is a good option for shopping for on Black Friday. Compared to the other area cities, you will have fewer crowds. There are fewer crowds because there are not as many shopping options as in the other area cities. In Bay City, you will find Target, Wal-Mart, JC Penney, Sears, Bath and Bodyworks, two Meijer stores, the Bay City Mall, and Menards. Bay City also has a downtown shopping area on the east side of the city. The shops in the downtown area are locally owned and will have their own Black Friday sales.

Midland - Midland, Michigan is about the same size as Bay City and only about 15 minutes from Bay City. Midland will have many of the same stores as Bay City but they also have Bed Bath & Beyond, Michael's, Kohl's, the Midland Mall, and Best Buy. There is also a downtown shopping area in Midland comparable to Bay City's. Midland's downtown shopping area is located by the Tittabawassee River are and the Tridge.

A main reason why some shoppers will choose Midland over Bay City is that most of the stores with the Black Friday ads are in the same area. If you get off the US-10 and Eastman road exit, you will just need to go north and you will find the major shopping complexes right there and most are interconnected so you will not have to keep driving in and out of Eastman Road to get to where you want. The parking lots will be more congested, but you will save on driving time. Another thing to remember about Midland is that if you need to use Eastman Road or US-10, there may be long lines to get out of the parking lot onto the roads.