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Black Friday UK
Amazon has the apparent honour of being the first to introduce Black Friday to the UK... previously Black Friday was a reference to the suffragettes who marched on London in 1910.. a century later its meaning took on a different slant..
In 2013 Walmart, who had recently become owners of one of the UK's biggest supermarkets, Asda, decided to bring it onto the streets big style...
This newspaper report gives a flavour of what happened...
A couple of years later on and Walmart/Asda got sick of this but by then every other company was on the band wagon.... now we have a random Friday in November for pre-Christmas bargains that not many people actually like...
In 2013 Walmart, who had recently become owners of one of the UK's biggest supermarkets, Asda, decided to bring it onto the streets big style...
This newspaper report gives a flavour of what happened...
A couple of years later on and Walmart/Asda got sick of this but by then every other company was on the band wagon.... now we have a random Friday in November for pre-Christmas bargains that not many people actually like...
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I did look at getting a tablet a couple of years back.
Turns out it was a brand I had never heard of then other stuff on top, memory card and so on, it just wasn't worth it.
Haven't bothered looking since.