Kiwis spent $253 million during Black Friday sales last year - it was the second-busiest shopping day of the year, according to spending figures from Paymark. Harford puts the early start on Black Friday down to retailers trying to "compete with each other". Last week the group had some early Black Friday deals, including buy-one-get-one-half-price deals, and will be releasing the deals for the event from tomorrow. "Black Friday is the first sales event of the year because of Covid. "The current trajectory of the sales event is very close to matching that of what it currently is in the United States."

Source: New Zealand Herald November 22, 2020 16:01 UTC