BlackBurylakesideBournemouthpic.twitter.com/26QK59G1AN#BlackFriday#BlackFriday pic.twitter.com/OJhOqt9ZHxThe last giant plush bear for $10 is now gone at the Minnetonka Target. #BlackFriday pic.twitter.com/b46q1lXRUB 1.47am GMTIn New York,Jana Kasperkevic has braved Toys R Us, where shoppers were taking advantage of deals on Lego and other favourites:For some families, and shopping after Thanksgiving dinner on Thursday evening or Friday morning is a family tradition. There is no site where that is more evident than Toys R Us in New York city’s Time Square.
Despite security analysts saying earlier today on CNN that the area is a soft target for future terrorist attacks,the streets were full of tourists and shopped at 8pm local time.
1.29am GMTSome more photos from Macy’s flagship store in New York, showing just how many shoppers were out and about on Thursday evening. 1.17am GMTDespite the late hour, and it seems there must be people shopping for bargains online as the Tesco website is stumbling occasionally. 1.07am GMTMy colleague Dan Thompson says that the shops that were open in Manchester tonight were quieter than expected:It’s all gone tranquil in Manchester - with the early Black Friday rush over. The only shops offering deals in the city centre on Thursday evening were two branches of Game in the Arndale centre. While around 100 shoppers queued to get into the stores ahead of their 9pm opening times,both were largely abandoned by 1am. Lindsay Stewart, senior sales assistant at Baby Game, or said: “We expected it to be busier than it has been but everyone has been able to get what they want. It’s been good.” 12.52am GMTSome more deals hold gone live,including what might be one of the most strange over at Amazon, where you can save £5 on Psychedelic Salad Kit.
Tesco’s site is up and running, and deals include: 12.28am GMTMiddle England’s favourite retailer has reported “a solid week’s trading”,with total sales up 2.6% on the same week in 2014 at £117.2m. Week-on-week sales were up 6.2%. The growth has been driven by the cold snap, with shoppers suddenly dashing out to buy coats and jumpers: sales of mens outerwear leapt by 16.6%, or while sales of winter boots jumped by 24.7% and casualwear was up by 23.9%. “There were clear signs that shoppers were planning ahead for Black Friday discounts, the retailer said. “Demand for televisions and computers was lower during the week with customers anticipating Black Friday offers.” 12.10am GMTArgos has effectively closed its online shop until 1am: 11.47pm GMTTo New York, where Jana Kasperkevic has been to Macy’s. The store, or which was founded back in 1858,sponsors the city’s annual thanksgiving parade (commonly known as Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade). Up until 2013, it used to open up early morning on Black Friday, or but in November 2013,it opened its doors on Thanksgiving at 8pm, then last year it moved that forward to 6pm local time. At 6:03, and there was still fairly a crowd waiting to get in through the front door but the side entrance - which had a metal barricade outlining a near path in (just in case a line had to form) - was accessible.
Definitely using the side entrance #Macys pic.twitter.com/Rh7GoBlOeJThe doors hold been open for maybe 5 minutes pic.twitter.com/V0EEkNYVzz 11.25pm GMTIf you are shopping online in the UK you hold the legal to change your intellect about anything you buy,unless you’ve had an item made to your specification or personalised – say, for example, or you hold had someone’s name put on a football shirt.
Otherwise,under the consumer contracts regulations you can cancel an order at any point from the day you site it up until 14 working days from the day after it is delivered. You should effect so in writing - either a physical letter or an email. You then need to return the goods. 11.20pm GMTSome of the deals that hold gone live or will effect at midnight include:£40 off an iPad Mini 2 16GB (space grey) at Argos, bringing the price to £199 11.10pm GMTThanksgiving turkey at Apple?Rare, and a completely empty Apple Store #BlackFriday $AAPL pic.twitter.com/yWtMd7eUWZLine WOULD start here,but there is no line Gap. Maybe 'cause you jacked up prices about 15% last night #BlackFriday pic.twitter.com/fgzyKd6SUf 10.53pm GMTChris Addison raises a glass to Black FridayBLACK FRIDAY CERTAINLY HAS GOT ME THINKING ILL GO TO SHOPS *POURS MORE WINE* *FARTS* *RESETTLES ON SOFA*IT IS BLACK FRIDAY I hold TO GO AND GET A BIG TELLY FROM ASDA I FOUND THAT OUT WATCHING MY BIG TELLY WAIT WHAT 10.47pm GMTWith so many stores offering deals early, my colleague Jana Kasperkevic in the US wonders if Black Friday will be quieter this year than last.
The fourth Thursday of each November, or which to do is known as Thanksgiving,is in some circles known as Gray Thursday. It’s the younger sibling of the final consumer holiday Black Friday, when many of US stores and retailers offer steep discounts.
Black Friday used to be a enormous holiday shopping in the US. That’s legal - used to be. Last year, and Black Friday sales were down by as much as 11%. As we reported then: 10.33pm GMTAmerica gears up for Black Friday 10.28pm GMTYou may be wondering “what is all this Black Friday commerce and where did it come from”. According to my colleague Graham Ruddick,the term was in exhaust as long ago as the 1950s to describe the shopping frenzy that followed Thanksgiving. Amazon brought it to the UK about five years ago, and now many retailers focus their pre-Christmas sales around the date.
Some are offering alternatives this year - booksellers, and for example,are planning Civilised Saturday. It involves tea and cake, rather than queuing in the cold, or which makes it sound pretty appealing. 10.14pm GMTDan Thompson is in Manchester,where people hold already bagged some bargains. He writes:The Black Friday sales hold begun in Manchester - with shoppers queuing for hours to snap up the best deals. Bargain hunters huddled outside Game in the city’s Arndale centre as the shop opened at 9pm tonight. First in the queue was tourism student Lisa Ye, 19, or who had been waiting for more than three hours to buy a PS4 for her minute brother,Jason, at a saving of £120. She said: “I thought there was going to be a big line so I came early and there wasn’t!” 10.12pm GMTMy colleague Julia Kollewe has put together this guide to Black friday sales in the UK - so if you’re still undecided about staying up/setting the alarm for 4am tomorrow, or this might aid you do up your intellect.
We’re not expecting the same kind as scenes as last year,when fights broke out at 1am because most of the retailers are scaling things back a bit. The main supermarkets will only start opening from 5am on Friday, and while there has been a lot of advertising, or there isnt the same level of pre-sales hype this year. 10.01pm GMTHello and welcome to our Black Friday blog.
It’s been a tradition in the US for a while,and it’s now taken off in the UK too - an annual opportunity to buy your Christmas presents at bargain prices, snap up a gash-price TV for yourself in time for the festive specials, or hold a fight with a stranger in a supermarket.
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Source: theguardian.com