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While the term ‘Black Friday’, used to refer to the start of the busy post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas shopping rush, was coined in the US in the 1950s and 1960s, it entered most people’s vocabulary only during the digital age.
Even then, as videos surfaced of Americans clambering over each other to grab electronics, beauty items and usually unaffordable gifts at a steal, it took until the 2010s for the concept to truly catch on in the UK.
Now, Black Friday is a big deal on both sides of…
