Posted: Fri 29th Nov 2013

Black Friday In The UK Is Mildly Disturbing!

News and Info from Deeside, Flintshire, North Wales
This article is old - Published: Friday, Nov 29th, 2013

Black Friday the American ‘tradition’ of buying the contents of an entire shop the first Friday after ‘Thanks Giving’ looks to have firmly landed at in UK ‘bricks and mortar’ stores.

Its the biggest shopping day of the year in the States, so naturally where they go we have had to follow.

In the UK over the last few of years with the likes of Apple and Amazon having been cashing in on Black Friday selling products online at knock down prices.

This year has seen more UK based retailers enter the fray, realising its another great opportunity the stretch peoples credit cards even further in the run up Christmas, there are however some great offers to be grabbed particularly on tech stuff, if of course you’re happy to get in the scrum for a cheap tablet or flat screen TV.

Ten things you didn’t know about Black Friday 

The images below were taken today at various Asda supermarkets in the UK

http://storify.com/Deesidedotcom/black-friday-asda-the-downward-spiral

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