Shoppers go to town as UK rings in biggest-ever Black Friday sales day
by Sarah Butler from on (#5SC9P)
Data from banks and card issuers suggests consumers on track to spend almost 9.2bn this weekend
The UK has rung up its biggest Black Friday sales day ever, data suggests, with shoppers spending more than one-fifth more than last year as the high street bounced back from pandemic lockdowns.
The number of payments via Barclaycard, one of the UK's biggest debit and credit card issuers, were up 23% between midnight and 5pm compared with the same period in 2020, when most of the UK high street was in lockdown, and was up 2.4% on 2019.
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