Black Friday Grocery Deals: Best Stores for Turkey and Sides

If you are waiting until Black Friday itself to buy turkey and sides, Walmart is effectively your only major grocery bundle still running: its 2026 Holiday Meal Basket covers 26 items for 10 people at $35 and runs through December 24, 2026, according to Walmart's corporate newsroom announcement. The cheaper and larger rival baskets — ALDI's under-$39 meal for 10 and Target's $30 meal for six — are priced for the weeks *before* Thanksgiving, not the Friday after it. That timing gap is the whole story this year.

Black Friday falls on November 27, two days after Thanksgiving, by which point the turkey promotions have done their job and expired. The practical move is to buy the bird and the shelf-stable sides now, in mid-November, and treat Black Friday as the day you only have one real grocery offer left.

Verification note: Program terms and availability can change. This page was checked against linked sources on November 13, 2026.

Which turkey and side deals are still live on Black Friday?

Walmart's Holiday Meal Basket is the one that survives the date. It bundles 26 items intended to feed 10 people for about $35, works out to roughly $3.50 per person, and requires no membership and no purchase limit. It is sold in stores and at Walmart.com/HolidaySavingsBasket, and Walmart's announcement puts the end date at December 24, 2026.

Everything else on this list closes earlier. ALDI's pricing ends November 25. BJ's free-turkey coupon must be redeemed by November 25.

Target's $30 meal and Sam's Club bundle are built around the Thanksgiving table, not the post-holiday weekend. So "Black Friday grocery deals" for turkey and sides is a narrower category than it sounds. If you are shopping for a late-December meal, or you simply missed Thanksgiving pricing, the Walmart basket is the offer that is still open.

What is actually in each bundle

The three store bundles differ in head count, not just price, which makes the per-person figure the only fair comparison. Target's $5 per person is the lowest per-head figure of the three, but it feeds six. Walmart's $3.50 per person figure is lower still — with a caveat worth reading before you budget around it.

• **Walmart — $35, 10 people, through Dec 24.** Sides are Stove Top stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, dinner rolls, sweet potato casserole, corn casserole, and pumpkin pie with whipped topping. That is 18% more items than Walmart's 2025 basket.
• **ALDI — under $39, 10 people, pricing ends Nov 25.** ALDI said on October 14, 2026 that the meal needs no coupons, loyalty card, minimum purchase or membership, and benchmarked it against the American Farm Bureau Federation's 10-person menu. Sides include three boxes of stuffing, 12-oz Hawaiian sweet rolls, three pounds of sweet potatoes, cranberries, steamable peas and a veggie tray. ALDI's meal page carries the dates.
• **Target — $30, six people, announced Oct 22, 2026.** Includes a Butterball turkey up to 10 lb, Good & Gather russet potatoes, Del Monte green beans, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, French fried onions and Stove Top stuffing. Prices are pre-tax, and Target's press release states the offer is not valid in Alaska or Hawaii.

Read the turkey footnote before you trust the total

Walmart's $35 is an estimate. The basket price rests on a Butterball frozen whole turkey at $0.97 per pound, and Walmart's own footnote says the figure assumes an average 13.5-lb bird. Pick a heavier turkey off the same freezer shelf and your real total rises — a 20-lb bird adds roughly $6 at that per-pound rate.

ALDI's math is more transparent about size: its Farmer's Choice 16-lb whole turkey runs about $0.99/lb, roughly $15.84, which is close to 40% of the under-$39 basket on its own. Target's bundle caps the bird at 10 lb, which is part of how it reaches $30. If you are buying a turkey separately rather than as part of a bundle, Target has the lowest per-pound price among these chains at $0.79 for its Good & Gather frozen turkey starting in November 2026 — the third consecutive year it has held that price.

For a 20-lb bird, that is about $15.80 against roughly $19.40 at Walmart's basket rate.

The BJ's free turkey has two windows, and most people miss one

BJ's Wholesale Club is offering members a digital coupon for one free Butterball fresh or frozen turkey, non-organic, valued up to $25. The condition is spending $150 or more in a single transaction, after discounts and before tax, between October 31 and November 9, 2026. That qualifying window has already closed.

The second window is the one still open to anyone who qualified. Per BJ's help center page, the coupon must be clipped in the app or on BJs.com between November 14 and November 25, then redeemed by November 25. It is one per member, while supplies last.

Clipping is not automatic — an eligible member who never opens the app gets nothing. Two exclusions catch people. Alcohol, tobacco, gift cards, propane, gas, optical, membership fees and delivery or pickup fees do not count toward the $150.

And BJ's warns that editing an order below $150 after discounts can disqualify a transaction that previously counted — so a post-purchase substitution or removal can undo your eligibility.

When a bundle is the wrong choice

Sam's Club's Member's Mark Thanksgiving meal, announced October 15, 2026, bundles 11 items for about $160 and serves up to 16 people — under $10 each, one-click orderable from October 28. It is priced pre-tax and only at that price if you buy the full assortment, so swapping out items breaks the deal. It also uses a fully cooked smoked turkey rather than a raw bird.

That is a convenience product, not a roasting project, and it is a different meal from what the other four bundles assume. If someone at your table expects a browned, carved roast turkey, this is not a substitute. The same "full assortment" logic applies more quietly elsewhere.

A bundle is a good price on a fixed list, so it is a poor price if you already own three boxes of stuffing or nobody in the house eats green bean casserole. Price the two or three items you actually need against the bundle before assuming the bundle wins.

What to do this week

Today is November 13, which sits inside the narrowest of these windows. Check the item count and head count together, not the headline price. Walmart's $35 feeds 10 and Target's $30 feeds six, which is a difference of nearly $1.50 per person in Walmart's favor — before you account for the 13.5-lb turkey assumption behind it.

• **Clip the BJ's coupon starting November 14** if you spent $150 or more at BJ's between October 31 and November 9. Redeem by November 25.
• **Buy ALDI's basket before November 25** if you are feeding 10 — the pricing ends two days before Black Friday.
• **Compare Target's $0.79/lb turkey against a bundle** if you only need the bird and already have sides.
• **Save Walmart's basket for later** if your meal is after Thanksgiving; it is the only one of these that is still priced on Black Friday and through December 24.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is any turkey deal still available on Black Friday 2026?

Walmart's Holiday Meal Basket is. Walmart's newsroom says the $35, 26-item basket for 10 people runs through December 24, 2026, with no membership and no purchase limit. ALDI's pricing ends November 25, and BJ's coupon must be redeemed by November 25.

Which store has the cheapest turkey by the pound?

Target, at $0.79 per pound for its Good & Gather frozen turkey starting in November 2026 — the lowest per-pound price among these chains. ALDI's Farmer's Choice bird is about $0.99/lb and the Butterball behind Walmart's basket is $0.97/lb.

Do I need a membership for any of these?

ALDI and Walmart both state that no membership is required. BJ's free turkey is a member benefit tied to a $150 qualifying purchase, and the Sam's Club bundle is a Member's Mark club offer.

Why is Walmart's $35 described as an estimate?

Because the turkey is priced by weight. Walmart's footnote says $35 assumes an average 13.5-lb bird at $0.97/lb, so a heavier turkey raises the real checkout total.