Black Friday: Shoppers Out Early For Bargains

For Black Friday it has a range of about 40 or 50 products Schreuder said, on top of the 1 000.

And Which? urged shoppers to be prepared by registering for alerts from favourite retailers, searching for regular prices ahead of time in order to spot genuine bargains and to be aware that many deals are already available online. All Tesco Extra stores will close at 12am and re-open again at 5am on Friday to allow staff time to set up the deals.

But this year was an altogether more sedate affair, not just in Huddersfield but around the United Kingdom, where major centres including the Trafford Centre in Manchester and Liverpool One were practically deserted.

Most retailers started their offers at the start of the week, holding a Black Friday week rather than just on the day itself.

All you tech tv geeks looking for an excuse to finally upgrade to that 4K UHD TV you’ve been craving for, Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be the answer to your dreams.

Amazon is going strong with digital sales rate, and the early Walmart Black Friday deals were the answer to such. You can also save £140 on the GoPro Hero 3+ Camera and additional battery pack – now available for £149.99. Beginning on Thanksgiving day, 10 deals of the day will be offered on Thanksgiving day and Black Friday. Of course the bulk of their best deals are today.

Amazon said that more than six million items had been ordered through its British division, breaking the sales record set last Black Friday when more than 5.5 million items were sold – equivalent of around 64 items per second.

Currys PC World also reported its biggest-ever start to Black Friday with eight sales per second and 100 large screen TVs selling per minute online.

And that is the case indeed, any other day of the year, except today. One helpful app is Black Friday, which makes it easier for shoppers to compare prices across different store ads.

The research shows “Black and Blue Friday” is now competing with boozy “Mad Friday” as emergency services are pushed to the limit.

Tesco Extra: Crowds patiently queue outside the store at Silverburn in Glasgow.

John Lewis outlined their own preparations in a statement: “We are doing all that we can to ensure that we are well prepared for Black Friday”.

Retailers begin promoting their holiday sales at the beginning of November.

Despite the publicity, some analysts are wary of the impact of the discounts on retailers’ pricing power, pointing out that some of chains which shunned the event a year ago, such as clothing retailers Next and Jigsaw, were among the best Christmas performers.