Record Black Friday on the cards

Brits are set to splurge £2.6 billion on Black Friday 2017, an 8% increase on last year, according to VoucherCodes and the Centre for Retail Research (CRR). Online spending alone is expected to reach £1.15 billion on 24th November, up 15% on 2016.

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