Black Friday: A Turning Point for African Retail | Industry Insights
Black Friday: A Turning Point for African Retail For the best part of a decade, apocalyptic scenes of crazed shoppers in the US have been etched across television screens around the world, but it would seem that this chaos is more desirable than it looks as the rest of the world continue to adopt the most frantic of ‘holidays’. Known as ‘Black Friday’, the day after Thanksgiving in America - which falls on the fourth Thursday of November - has long been used by retailers as a day to drop prices, open earlier, shut later and cash in on what is generally perceived as the beginning of ...