With less than a week to go before Thanksgiving, retailers are hoping a dose of turkey and some stuffing will lull shoppers into a spending mood during the three-day holiday shopping weekend.

Retailers have tried to get shoppers spending early this year, rolling out holiday deals in September and October, but they are headed into the Thanksgiving weekend on edge, worried that consumers will keep a tight hold on their purse strings in the face of a shaky economic environment and lack of must-have products.

To wake shoppers out of their Thanksgiving food comas, some, including Wal-Mart and Circuit City will offer special deals on their Web sites on Thanksgiving day, while others will open at midnight Thanksgiving night to jump-start the weekend madness.

The first 1,500 customers who arrive at King of Prussia Mall in Pennsylvania on Black Friday with a special voucher printed from the mall’s Web site will get a survival bag, complete with bottled water and chocolate covered pretzels. 

Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club warehouses will open at 5:00 a.m. and offer a continental breakfast, while Best Buy will hand out coffee and doughnuts to those shoppers who line up at its stores in the wee hours.

Retailers’ full plans for the three-day Thanksgiving shopping weekend have still not fully been unveiled. Wal-Mart is planning to reveal its holiday weekend blitz plans on Monday - stay tuned for more!

(Read more about which retailers might be winners and losers this holiday)