In case you haven’t heard it’s Black Friday today, the start of the biggest online shopping weekend of the year. The likelihood is, however, that you have heard, because there has been a deluge of adverts from retailers promoting the discounts they are offering this weekend. Amazon, for example, has turned Black Friday into a ten-day shopping festival. Much of the spending this weekend will be online. When Black Friday first made its way from the US to…

Source: The Times November 23, 2018 09:00 UTC