BLACK Friday is one of the biggest shopping events in the UK calendar, with thousands of shoppers bagging bargains online and in the high street. It sees thousands of items from electrical goods to clothes and bags slashed with massive discounts. It started off small over but has slowly become one of the biggest shopping […]
BLACK Friday is one of the biggest shopping events in the UK calendar, with thousands of shoppers bagging bargains online and in the high street.
It sees thousands of items from electrical goods to clothes and bags slashed with massive discounts.
It started off small over but has slowly become one of the biggest shopping events of the year.
It takes place a few weeks before Christmas, meaning it’s a key time for people to go Christmas present shopping.
But when does Black Friday fall this year, what is the annual day’s history and how can you find the best sales and deals?
Here’s everything you need to know.
Just because a product is in a Black Friday sale, doesn’t mean you can find it, or something similar, cheaper elsewhere. Always shop around before you spend your money.
Black Friday is an informal name given to a day each year when stores offer a range of highly-promoted sales.
It also sees many stores opening early.
It is one of the busiest days in the retail calendar and typically marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping period.
It began in the US, but in recent years has also become an annual fixture in the UK and elsewhere.
Thanksgiving is a federal holiday in the United States that originated as a harvest festival and has been celebrated on and off since 1789.
Many non-retail employees and schools have Thanksgiving and the following Friday off, creating a four-day weekend and increasing the number of potential shoppers.
The weekend traditionally marks the beginning of the holiday season ahead of Christmas and New Year.
The Friday after Thanksgiving came to be associated with shopping in the 1950s, though didn’t gain the name Black Friday until later.
The tradition has spread elsewhere in recent decades, and is now marked in the UK, Canada, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Sweden, and a growing list of other countries.
Black Friday falls on the Friday after the annual US holiday of Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of each November.
This means that this year it falls on November 27.
Some stores in the US open as early as midnight, but in the UK most open at 6am.
However, many will make offers available from midnight through their online stores.
Last year’s Black Friday sale was so big in the UK that metrics showed almost a 20 per cent increase in online shoppers, with more deal hunters joining the fray and – crucially – staying active for longer.
And this year, with shoppers predicted to transition their shopping habits online due to post-lockdown, competition for deals will be fiercer than ever before.
Technically the sale occurs just on one day – a Friday.
However, since the trend took off some shops extend their Black Friday sales for a few days or even a week.
While several stores haven’t revealed when their sales will start, we’ve made some predictions of when early deals will take place at different retailers.
You can bag a deal by doing your homework beforehand and checking out the prices.
And make sure you know what you want and your budget.
For those who miss out, or who are still self isolating at home, Cyber Monday takes place just three days later.
We’ve rounded up what to expect in the Boots Black Friday sale 2020.
Here’s also what to expect from the Nike Black Friday sale 2020.
And here’s the line up of the Halford Black Friday sale for this year too.
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