Spanish shops and department stores are importing the
traditional post-Thanksgiving Day 'sales madness' seen in the US every
year as a way of getting Spanish shoppers to splash out in the lead up
to Christmas.
Bargain hunters in Spain are in for more than a treat this year,
and they won’t even have to wait until the early January sales to find
what they were looking for. As a way of bringing forward the
Christmas campaign and encouraging shoppers to spend big before December
25th, shops in Spain of the likes of El Corte Inglés, FNAC, Zara and
Media Markt have imported what Americans call Black Friday.
This Friday, prices for electronics, clothes, cosmetics and many more
products will drop or halve in most high streets across Spain.
Black Friday, a name originally coined by US policemen to refer to the
massive traffic jams they would have to deal with on the day after
Thanksgiving, has now come to represent "shopping chaos" more than any
other sales day in the US. The quest to find a good bargain has
often resulted in fully-fledged punch-ups between rival shoppers in the
States in recent years. In some extreme cases people have been pepper-sprayed or even shot.
Do you know what Black Friday is? answer the following questions! - What is a bargain hunter? - Why are shops importing this Black Friday tradition from the US? - What is the origin of the name Black Friday? - What may be the result of this quest to find the best bargain? - Have you been shopping this Black Friday in Spain? Tell us your experience! What were the prizes like? Were there many people?
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