Black Friday

Shoppers reach out for television sets at a department store in Athens on Friday. The Black Friday sales appeared to beat retailers' expectations as hundreds of customers lined the streets outside the city's most popular department stores long before sunrise.

Shoppers line up outside a central department store in Athens hoping to bag a bargain on the occasion of so-called Black Friday. One in 10 Greeks was expected to take advantage of Black Friday to do their Christmas shopping even though it is more than a month before the holiday, on November 24, according to a recent survey conducted by Deloitte.

The online store giant "Amazon" faces a hard black Friday in Italy and Germany, where the company's distribution center staff will strike today. Italy will be hit by a major distribution center whose employees will insist on better wages and working conditions in a key sale day.

For another year, many stores and merchants in Bulgaria will join the so-called Black Friday, making discounts on their goods on the last Friday of November. Unfortunately, among the lucrative offers, there are often attempts at fraud.

Some days divide us from Black Friday - one of the most important days in e-commerce. This year's date is November 24 and is expected to bring even greater sales and results, continuing the trend of 2016.

According to RTB House, in November 2016, electronic stores in Bulgaria reported a four-fold increase in visits, which places our country among the champions in Europe.

One in 10 Greeks will take advantage of Black Friday to do their Christmas shopping even though it is more than a month before the holiday, on November 24, according to a survey conducted by Deloitte.

Small and medium-sized enterprises look set this year to claim their slice of the Black Friday sales pie. The recent addition to the local retail calendar - which traditionally takes place the day after the US Thanksgiving holiday - is this year scheduled for November 24.

Retail stores and chains that opted to offer special discounts on November 25, Black Friday, have reported up to 500 percent increases in turnover compared to a regular Friday at the end of November.

Shoppers crowd outside a central department store in the northern port city of Thessaloniki hoping to bag a bargain on the occasion of so-called Black Friday. The event, a day of discounts at stores which started in the United States for the day after Thanksgiving, lures consumers with generous discounts that can reach up to 80 percent.

With Black Friday less than 24 hours away, many major retailers are offering shoppers great post-Thanksgiving deals of up to 80% off their regular prices. Some of the big names participating in this year’s shopping frenzy are Public, River West, Media Markt, Factory Outlet, Gap, Οysho, Germanos and Plaisio.