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Originally Posted by Jason.

I think Black Friday has started to become more of a thing over here in the UK over the last year or two. I honestly don't remember it being much of a big deal in the UK five years ago whereas now most retailers have sales for it and it's heavily advertised.

Originally Posted by Adam.

We stole it a few years back

Nice. Do y'all wake up at 5am in the morning too and tear up all the shops? Is it basically the same?

Some of the shops here have been doing it at midnight or on Thanksgiving day... but there's been backlash from some because it's encroaching on a legitimate holiday and forcing workers to have to abandon dinner earlier...

Originally Posted by Cherie

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I think it started in Amazon here about 4 years ago, that's the first time I became aware if it, I remember because I bough a kindle the following year we had Black Friday in the shops where there were physical fights over TVs, last year to combat the fist fights they extended it to Black Friday weekend, and this year it's been a whole week. So yeah we like to adopt age old American customs in search of even more consumerism, I expect we will be celebrating Thanksgiving in a few years

I guess despite it being a US thing, sites like Amazon have no reason to limit the range of their customer base... also kinda weird to have sales on one side and regular price on the other... they can probably afford to hold it internationally... Steam sales are nice too... When my friend came from Osaka to visit here, we woke up at 5am after Thanksgiving and took him to Best Buy... in retrospect, kinda crazy waking up someone who is jet-lagged to go on a shop-a-thon... but he seemed to enjoy it.

Thanksgiving is a great holiday... except when you're on a diet