Black Friday night’s all right for fighting
by Simon Goodley from on (#229MC)
The American 'shopping event' that has travelled to Britain is coming around again. But our bouts of fisticuffs at the tills don't compare with theirs
They say that what starts in the US inevitably comes to the UK (burger joints, crazy clowns and syphilis are oft-cited examples). But we don't always embrace these gifts as enthusiastically as the Americans.
Take Black Friday, the US equivalent to our Boxing Day sales, which takes place the day after Thanksgiving and is with us again this week. Desperate retailers have tried to introduce something similar here - only with limited success.
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