Panic Friday...
 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30241459

Doesn't surprise me either.

I was unlucky enough to be in our local Tesco a couple of weeks ago and witnessed a major and very unseemly scrummage over the reduced groceries section. Anyone would think these people were starving but the truth is they were mainly well dressed people filling their trollies with quite expensive branded products which had been reduced by a couple of pounds. Not exactly household necessities. The staff who'd been stacking the shelf were forced to retire and watch from a safe distance as people pushed, shoved and shouted in order to grab as much as they could.

I'm wondering how long it'll be before someone is seriously injured or worse as a result of this sort of selfish behaviour and IMHO the stores must bear their share of responsibility for not adequately controlling the situation.

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I was going to go to Tescos today but i will give it a miss i think as i can't even get on the Tesco Direct website!

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They do it seriously over the water:

Linky

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I went to Game at midnight and there were about 40 or so people in the queue before me and at least the same number behind.

I got the Xbox One offer they had one and there were only 2 left after that. Most people were calm and friendly, the only annoying folk were the drunks that kept walk past asking what we were there for.

Seen photos of the queues outside some supermarkets and its totally crazy.

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We got some Black Friday deals but we did it in the comfort of our own home.

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Lots of press reaction to what happened in Tesco stores.... not a word about the other supermarkets.

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The Argos website was down earlier - too busy...

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And Currys and John Lewis l hear were having problems as well.

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All this for £40 off an end of line TV...

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Frankly some of the behaviour l have seen on the TV news this morning is that of people who are deeply selfish and are prepared to do anything to get a bargain including fighting , trampling over other people and pushing disabled people out of the way and l find that appalling.

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Same here.

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I had a look at the halfords website today (my mum wants to buy my brother a satnav for christmas) there were a few discounts, but nothing more than 20 or 30%.

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Folks, it's worth bearing in mind that the "was" price only needs to have been offered for the same length of time as the "now" price. It's entirely possible that your mega black Friday bargain was only ever available at the higher price for 24 hours. ;)

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I got an Xbox one with Alien isolation for £269 from Amazon. I was quite happy with that deal.

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And again. how many millions of pounds worth of stock was taken out the front door, without going through the tills in all the chaos?

it was like a rehearsal for the riots again.