BRIT stores may have failed to meet the mania seen last year on Black Friday –
but the trend is certainly continuing across the pond.
In America the sales hit stores even earlier – with bargains beginning
yesterday.
Scenes across the states showed signs of mania as people clawed over one
another in desperate attempts to get their hands on some goodies.
In one shocking video a stampede is seen bursting through store doors and
falling on a pile of cut-price steamers.
Shockingly a woman grabs a veg steamer right out of the hands of a small child
– much to his mum’s horror.
In Louisville, Kentucky two men began brawling for no apparent reason while
shoppers tried to grab bargains around them.
Elsewhere in New York 100 people queued to get into Macy’s in New York’s
Herald Square, while a further 40 queued outside Toys R Us.
Michelle Toy, from Oklahoma City queued for hours outside a Best Buy store,
and told NBC station KFOR: “I got here at 11 o’clock last night waiting for
a TV.
“It’s not a big price to pay. I’ll have plenty of time to sleep when I’m six
feet under.”
Estaban Rodulfo also visited a Best Buy store in Fresno, California and told
NBC station KSEE: “I got my phone, I got my laptop, my tablet, and, like,
five blankets.
“I got a flannel, a jacket, another jacket right there.”
As violence spreads across the US, things remain quiet over here in the UK.
With the most Black Friday drama coming from long queues at Asda petrol
stations – where they’ve dropped fuel to 99p a litre.