Friday, 29 November 2013

Check out some photos from Black Friday Mayhem!


Good buy: Tablets were selling for just £49 and Samsung phones for £99 at the event where shelves were cleared within a minute

Frenzy: Hundreds of shoppers grab for cut price electrical bargains at Asda superstore in Benton, North Tyneside this morning
Black Friday - the biggest day in America’s festive shopping calendar - has well and truly arrived in the UK to kick off the pre-Christmas rush.
With discounts of up to 70 per cent on everything from flatscreen TVs to party shoes, it is hoped the discount day will get shoppers in the mood to spend.
The event has crept across the Atlantic over the past few years as U.S. giants such as Amazon and Apple have sought to include the UK in the shopping frenzy.
This year British stores such as John Lewis and Debenhams have joined in - slashing their prices for one day only.

 Black friday is day to get the best bargain ever in the UK and U.S.A, goods are sold at rock bottom prices and people sleep over at the malls waiting to make a rush inside and it was complete chaos
 A typical example is a male shopper who was arrested at an Asda store during a scramble that ensued between him and security guards over taking more than one 60 inch TV.
Eyewitnesses said trouble flared up when staff told the man, 35, was only allowed to buy one of each product.
He was escorted from the store by security guards and was finally restrained by five members of staff - with one employee suffering a cut face.
One witness said: 'He was being told by staff at Asda that he wasn't allowed to buy two TVs,
'Security then escorted him and he was arguing and filming them on his mobile phone when it was knocked out of his hand.
'He ended up being carted off handcuffed in a police car but it was the security guards who got physical.'
Officers from Avon and Somerset Police arrived at the store and arrested a man
At a store in Benton, North Tyneside, hundreds of frenzied shoppers made a grab for cut price electrical bargains - with the shelves cleared in just one minute.
According to one witness, there was an orderly queue outside the store - where tablets were on sale for just £49 - from around 6am this morning. 
But when the clocks stuck 8am - chaos descended.
Shoppers were frantically snatching products from the shelves with men and women piling into each other in a mad scramble to snatch bargains.
A shopper described scenes at the store as 'horrific' and said shoppers were like 'a pack of savages looking for a bargain.'
Margaret Green, 55, from North Tyneside, said: 'It was bedlam, chaos. It was absolutely jam-packed. It wasn't a great queuing system. People started taking the black sheets off themselves, then in was mayhem.
'People grabbed what they could. There was no ticketing system.
'There were big fights at the tablets and the phones. It was horrific. It was like a pack of savages looking for a bargain.
'I was ashamed to be English to be honest. People had more than one item. They had two or three TVs or tablets in their trollies.
'I saw one person take a phone out of somebody else's basket. There was lots of screaming and shouting. I'm surprised there weren't people on the floor. I found it disgusting. It was horrific.'
One shopper filled his trolley with two 32inch flat screen TV's that were only £99 before abandoning his bounty in search of other slashed-price items.
Another witness said: 'They were like locusts - shoppers were coming in from everywhere.
'It was madness. It was over within a matter of minutes.'

Some of what was on sale

Asda were offering discounts on over 500,000 products in 350 stores, including:
LG 42” Plasma TV
Black Friday price: £249
Original price: £459

Polaroid 32” LED TV 
Black Friday price: £99
Original price: £179

Cyclone Explorer 7” Tablet
Black Friday price: £49
Original price: £89

Little Tikes Cozy Coupe
Black Friday price: £29
Original Price £59

Little Tikes Play Kitchen 
Black Friday price: £38
Original price: £169
Held: The male shopper, who was trying to buy two 60-inch televisions, was restrained by security and staff membersArrest: A shopper is restrained after a row broke out at the Asda store in Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, this morningSnatch: Electrical items were completely gone within 2 minutes of the event - an American tradition to encourage Christmas spending Tight squeeze: Shoppers struggle to get all of their purchases - including hoovers and televisions - into their carElsewhere: Meanwhile, at Asda in Leyton, East London shoppers were also enjoying cut-price Black Friday bargainsAnd in America:
Black Friday mayhem

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