Bumper Online Sales On Black Friday

Black Friday strikes again.

And it says its Price Promise means that, even on voucher offers, if you find the same item is cheaper at any of its competitors – including Argos, Asda, John Lewis, Tesco or AO.com – Currys PC World will match it.

Amazon releases new daily deals shortly after midnight Pacific.

The Amazon Black Friday 2015 sale has launched in full about 30 minutes before midnight PT. Amazon offers a wide selection of deals.

“Feedback from our customers revealed that one day simply isn’t enough”.

Indeed, a Black Friday backlash appears to be gathering force at a time when some traditionalists are already bemoaning the way that Halloween, with its kitsch and goofy costumes and edible eyeball cakes, is slowly supplanting Guy Fawkes Day, the four-centuries-old British festival that falls on November 5. But it suffered an early setback when its website went down, in an early warning of the perils of spikes in traffic.

You can find deals at Tesco on iPads, Samsung tablets and even bargain deals for Amazon Fire.

With so many people shopping online, there was no repeat of the unseemly scuffles witnessed in high street stores a year ago as customers fought over big-ticket items. As Adie told us: “Over 50% of retailers running Black Friday sales in 2014 had website outages on the day”.

Bargain hunters are expected to spend freely today, on the high street and online.

At a branch of the traditional retail chain Marks & Spencer in Islington, North London, a giant sign on the store’s window promoted “Black Friday Weekend” and 50 percent discounts on selected items including cashmere sweaters, nightwear and Christmas crackers.

But if customers thought they could avoid the queues by staying at home they would have been disappointed.

The event started off as an American tradition, falling on the Friday after Thanksgiving. Amazon, the biggest virtual shop in the world of Internet could not get away with just one Black Friday LED TV deal.

That represents a 42% hike in total financial loss compared to the 2013 festive period, when victims lost £9.5m.

Spending in Britain on the “Black Friday” discount shopping day looks set to break last year’s record despite warnings that retailers would be wise to shun an event imported from the United States. “A serious outage two years in a row could be embarrassing”.

This year Royal Mail has announced it is bringing 10 delivery warehouses back into commission to cope with the extra demand and is leasing an extra 4,700 vans on top of its 44,000-strong fleet.

The scene at Surrey Quays Tesco was more calm than previous year, when police were called to reports of arguments breaking out.

Asda is not participating in Black Friday this year – it’s not hard to imagine why.