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Argos, Tesco, Currys & Boots buckle under weight of Black Friday demand

on Nov 28, 2014 | 0 comments

By John Glenday

Online retailers including Argos, Tesco, Currys and Boots have buckled under the weight of demand from expectant Black Friday shoppers with all suffering outages and enforced queuing

Savvy consumers planning to dodge fistfights and scrums in bricks and mortar stores were left twiddling their thumbs instead as a host of the UK’s most popular web retailers struggled to cope.

Amongst them were Tesco, no stranger to saying sorry in recent months, which was forced to apologise for making customers wait 30 seconds before they could access its Tesco Direct portal due to ‘lots of people shopping’. It was a similar story at Read full story ›

Source: The Drum