This is an important change from previous year.
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Ahead of Black Friday, eBay is launching a brand new set of offers, every morning at 08:00 GMT until Cyber Monday on 30th November.
But with many retailers are spreading out sales to spread the supply chain pressure across more days, one 3PL, iForce, this week predicted that there will be less chaos this year.
One is that some product prices are raised in October, a few weeks before Black Friday.
Last Friday the Argos website crashed temporarily as it launched its Black Friday deals week, while previous year Currys-PC World was forced to introduce an online queuing system due to the unexpected levels of traffic on Black Friday.
Although online deals might be tempting, not least given how they save you the hassle and cost of physically travelling between stores, the cost of delivery can vary between stores, as well as the period of time that it takes to reach your home – so don’t overlook these factors.
The supermarket giant is offering Black Friday deals on 13 product lines – including TVs, tablets, audio products and kitchen electricals. It has also hired around 19,000 seasonal roles in its fulfilment and customer service centres for the Christmas season.
Read our round-up of all the best Black Friday deals here.
The Centre for Retail Research expects a slightly more modest £966 million online, but predicts total Black Friday sales including at bricks and mortar stores will reach £1.39 billion, with shopping over the entire weekend culminating with Cyber Monday to hit £3.49 billion. What’s more, Kohl’s also has one of the best Xbox One Black Friday deals of the year. They normally sell this e-reader for $119.99.
If you think Black Friday 2015 is still two days away, you haven’t been paying attention at all.
We’ve been to see John Lewis to see how it prepares for the big day and interviewed its head buyer of technology, Jonathan Marsh.
The department store said the decision was created to “deliver a good shopping experience for our customers” during tomorrow’s shopping extravaganza. You can mix and match and the only thing this deal excludes is Starter Packs. It will be a busy day.
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IForce also emphasised the importance of recognising that an “order is never complete until it has surpassed its return by date”, – noting that for a lot of stores there is a potential of 100 per cent more Black Friday returns than past year.
