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Black Friday Coming!

Retailers have drafted in extra shop floor and security staff to control the anticipated crowds of shoppers as they prepare for the American-style Black Friday shopping mania due to sweep Britain’s high streets this week. The 24-hour sales bonanza imported from the US has become big business in the UK, with store bosses predicting that sales rung up on Friday will be double those of last year, at around £200m. Some of the high street’s biggest names, including John Lewis, Asda, Currys and Argos, will launch thousands of deals. Tens of thousands of shoppers are expected to queue outside supermarkets and shopping centres in the early hours of Friday to get their hands on aggressively discounted TVs, tablets and smartphones. Just as many are expected to log on from their beds, with John Lewis among the retailers launching deals at a minute past midnight. Stuart Griffiths, Chief Executive Officer at True Telecom said “Black Friday will boost the sales of the retail sector estimated £2.3bn and increase by 2.3% from last year. If consumers are encouraged to spend and seek value for money propositions, this will also boost the Telecom Sector for both b2b and b2c.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Stuart Griffiths .