Shoppers hunting Black Friday bargains sparked a surge in online sales during the small hours but left high street stores looking deserted compared with the frantic scramble of previous years. Online retailers have this year taken extra precautions to prevent online meltdown and overloaded websites crashing. Currys PC World’s Black Friday 2016 deals webpage suffered problems just after midnight, according to tweets from furious “early bird” shoppers. Facebook Twitter Pinterest People queue for Black Friday sales at Tesco Extra in Streatham, south London. “I wasn’t keen on coming before – I didn’t like the idea of fighting.”Facebook Twitter Pinterest Black Friday shoppers at Sainsbury’s in Harringay, north London.

Source: The Guardian November 25, 2016 08:29 UTC