Black Friday (shopping) Black Friday. In 2015, Black Friday was predicted to become the biggest day of shopping in Britain, with as much as £2bn spent in shops and online in 24 hours. However, many large retailers have discontinued, downplayed or heavily modified the concept since 2014, sometimes citing disruption to Christmas trading patterns or bad publicity. Black Friday appears to be growing in popularity year on year in the UK. In 2016, total spending on online retail sites on Black Friday 2016 was £1.23bn, marking a +12.2% increase on the £1.1bn spent on the same day in 2015. In 2017, retail sales
Home Bargains on the product. Despite being able to produce a Chinese test certificate indicating that a sample product was safety compliant, Home Bargains subsequentally admitted to three offences of electrical safety through the sale of unsafe chargers during 2015. Home Bargains Home Bargains is a chain of discount stores founded in 1976 by Tom Morris in Liverpool, England, as "Home and Bargain". It is the trading name of TJ Morris Ltd, stocking up to 4000 branded product lines and employs over 17,000 people from head office staff to warehouse staff and shop staff. In 2013, the company estimated they served over