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'A Black Friday black hole': Why Brits turned their backs on shopping anarchy

on Nov 30, 2015 | 0 comments

By Rob Remington-Drake

Fake Black Friday Target ads

I was expecting chaos. Mothers marking their faces with streaks of Rimmel warpaint, full grown men weeping as they cradled ‘Out of Stock’ signs and at least one fire – probably started by a tribe of abandoned children gone feral, abandoned by their parents near the electronics section.

Never one really to enjoy shopping myself even on a regular day, I’d prepared myself mentally for the horror I’d been told Black Friday was. And then I actually went into a store, and it was… quiet.

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Source: The Drum