Nigel Greenslade, director of warehouse broker BiS spaceXchange, part of the BiS-Henderson Croup, asks: just how prepared for Black Friday are you? UK retailers were sent reeling last November when British shoppers spent online an estimated ￡81 Om in one day, due to a new retail phenomenon imported from the US dubbed Black Friday. According to the UK is industry association for online retail, IMRG, who compiled the figures, the surprise amount spent on Black Friday eclipsed the ￡650m spent by consumers on Cyber Monday. The Black Friday spending frenzy on 28th November last year was said by online shopping tracker Postcode Anywhere to have resulted in 404,835 orders being placed in a single day.
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