Advice for thousands who courageous Black Friday

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But experts have pointed to the evolving nature of the event, which has progressed from brawls over cut-price televisions to last year’s “muted” high street turnout, with many predicting increased spending online this year. But that brought strains of its own, as retailers’ websites buckled under the weight of demand.

Chamber President Derek Scanlon stated, “Last year’s Black Friday event was a significant success for all retailers that participated”.

Alex Neill, managing director of Home and Legal at Which?, said: “Don’t believe the hype – Which? has shown that Black Friday isn’t all it’s cracked up to be”.

Another factor, a lot of folks aren’t as interested in dealing with the crowds as the hard-core Black Friday shoppers. It points to an industry that has embraced Black Friday, although in many cases reluctantly.

In 2015, House of Fraser launched “shoppable windows”, which allowed customers to scan product information and access augmented reality features using the House of Fraser mobile app.

Regardless if you are one of these bargain-hungry Black Friday shoppers, or a behind the scenes Cyber Monday shopper, happy shopping.

He said: “In contrast, for some United Kingdom retailers Black Friday is now the end-point for longer sales events which effectively diffuse the artificial panic of previous years”. It’s an approach that’s likely to continue.

This has hit margins at a time when margins should be at their highest level – many retailers in fact make up to 50% of their profit from Q4 – Black Friday essentially wipes a lot of this profit out.

The American moniker of Black Friday is somewhat misleading, with only a small number of retailers restricting their sales to a single day.

It even caused big fights over big screen tellies a few years ago.

Click Frenzy has been and gone, offering massive opportunities to online retailers and shoppers alike, and now Black Friday will present Australians with a little more opportunity to coin in on discounts, although nowhere near the scale or frenzy.

New research carried out by Electrical Safety First reveals that an estimated nine million United Kingdom consumers have purchased a fake electrical product as a Christmas gift in the past.

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Many stores opened with deals Thanksgiving afternoon or evening and won’t stop until late Friday night. The first Monday of the month, dubbed “Manic Monday” (5th December) is a key time for getting online orders in to ensure they’re delivered in time for Christmas, with the research revealing that online spending is set to reach £494 million on this day as a predicted 5 million shoppers log on to snap up festive goods.