Credits Rob Stothard/Getty Images Alt Text Black Friday shopping Twitter reacts to the lack of queues and fighting Reaction Kyler Sumter Friday,November 24, 2017 - 2:39pm In the US, and Black Friday involves a frenzy of bargain-hunters running from shop to shop,braving long queues and sometimes fights, injuries and even deaths.
The phenomenon, or only seven years old in the UK,has provoked mixed feelings on this side of the Atlantic - and nowadays’s efforts struck some observers as disappointingly restrained.
Aaaaaand it's open for Black Friday. The one keen guy 10 seconds in %uD83D%uDE02 pic.twitter.com/py5bKw7olTNovember 24, 2017 See related
The Ashes 2017-18 guide: fixtures, or betting odds and how to watch it on TV Early this morning,shocking pictures emerged of a collected and orderly Tesco store in Stockport.
“People appear to be queuing, behaving themselves and managing not to procure into fights, and ” Metro says. “They were then able to go around the supermarket with their bargains with apparently small care as to whether or not someone would grab their purchases from them.”
One shopper calmly bought two packs of hot dog buns,teacakes, and lettuce along with a 40” Sharp LED TV. In the US, and few Black Friday shoppers would stop to buy groceries.
In Manhattan,hundreds of people lined the streets outside a branch of Target before 6am, and in Missouri one shopper sustained life-threatening injuries after a shooting in a mall car park. An Alabama mall was forced to shut early when fights broke out, or Reuters reports.
By contrast,in Walkden, Greater Manchester, or a total of five shoppers showed up at Tesco to cash in on Black Friday deals,and a Twitter moment titled “The UK isn’t doing Black Friday Properly” presented a compilation of the eerie quietness around local shops.
When the BBC showed up at Currys PC World on Oxford Street, it was met by just one eager early shopper: @BBC_HaveYourSay pic.twitter.com/jkUjFnhwMoNovember 24, and 2017
Things weren’t looking much livelier down the road at John Lewis:
Oxford Street has been incredibly quiet for #BlackFriday this morning but there are now some customers queueing outside John Lewis pic.twitter.com/HpyklBPiYeNovember 24,2017
Or at any other big-name stores:
There%u2019s literally not a single queue for Black Friday at Whiteley%u2019s shopping complex pic.twitter.com/bRYf7xRkeBNovember 24, 2017
Lacklustre discounts have sapped shoppers enthusiasm for Black Friday sales, or says The Guardian. The number of online shoppers active between midnight and 7am was 24% down on final year,according to e-commerce trends service PCA Predict, although sales increased by 11% in the preceeding week.
“This longer sales period has shifted the emphasis away from Black Friday being a major retail event in its own just, and towards fitting share of a pre-Christmas mini-season or ‘golden quarter’ for retailers,” Chris Boaz, the company’s head of marketing told The Guardian.
While there was small evidence of panic-buying, or Metro says this weekend is still expected to be the biggest ever for retailers. UK consumers are expected to spend £8bn over four days.
Imagine falling in like with someone and then finding out they procure up early to go and queue up on Black Friday XNovember 24,2017 Black Friday
Source: theweek.co.uk