{"id":10232,"date":"2015-12-04T14:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=10232"},"modified":"2015-12-04T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T14:57:28","slug":"black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/business-culture\/black-friday","title":{"rendered":"Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Retailers feel the pressure, shoppers manic<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10250\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10250\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10250\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers Going all out In Cardiff for Black Friday\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10250\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1.jpg\" alt=\"Shoppers Going all out In Cardiff for Black Friday\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday1-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Shoppers going all out In Cardiff for Black Friday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The business community in Cardiff is gearing up to deal with increased pressure as black Friday draws near, while shoppers gear up for a day of shopping debauchery..<\/p>\n<p>With\u00a0customers planning elaborate spending sprees, businesses expect a bigger black Friday than last year.\u00a0\u00a0Peter Vaughan, manager at River Island, says \u201cthe company is planning on a 40 percent rise from last years black Friday\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>As shoppers in Wales and the rest of Britain scramble to get great deals, retailers feel the pressure of selling more stock and dealing with increased number of shoppers, Peter says, \u201cwe have more staff in, they give us more hours for staffing because they expect us to take 40 percent or more money. We train staff, we know that its going to be busy, how to deal with the increased footfall.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10408\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10408\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10408\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday.jpg\" alt=\"Shopper queue outside stores night before black friday. Photo by David Haines\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10408\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10408\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday.jpg\" alt=\"Shopper queue outside stores night before black friday. Photo by David Haines\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/12\/black-friday-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> Shopper queue outside stores night before black Friday. Photo by David Haines<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>First introduced in the UK in 2010, Black Friday originally started in the USA, Tasha Flera was in Chicago and says \u201cpeople fighting for the limited stock in stores, like actually pulling them from each other, stores are generally a lot busier and lines for buying items are ridiculously long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sun Irene, a student that went shopping in Cardiff says, \u201cIt was not that crowded, it was quite calm\u201d. Unlike Cardiff however, some places saw serious jostling amongst shoppers and social media was filled with stories where some of the shoppers degraded to violent fistfights.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retailers feel the pressure, shoppers manic The business community in Cardiff is gearing up to deal with increased pressure as black Friday draws near, while shoppers gear up for a day of shopping debauchery.. 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