Remember the first year Black Friday truly came to our lands? The day when Brits trampled over one another in an effort to bag themselves a cheap TV?
Let us refresh your memory!
Amazon first introduced Black Friday to Britain in 2010. Asda followed suit in 2013, and most other retailers joined the party the next year.
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These pictures were taken in Dorset on November 28, 2014 - the day of the first Black Friday as we now know it.
Castlepoint Shopping Centre welcomed more than 18,000 for the sales that day.
Huge queues formed outside Game from around 10.30pm, as people waited for the store to open at midnight. All their Xbox One and PS4 bundles sold out within one hour.
The Dolphin Shopping Centre in Poole was thronged with bargain hunters looking for Black Friday deals.
However, there wasn’t the shopping frenzy seen in other venues up and down the country.
Tesco stores across Dorset were flooded with shoppers at midnight as they browsed for one-day-only deals. One Echo reader tweeted to say she had witnessed fights despite a two-in, two-out policy at the store.
Websites also struggled to cope with the rush. Richmond Classics, based in Bournemouth, experienced trouble due to the amount of people trying to access their site.
On the whole, it was a shoppers paradise and a retailers dream come true.
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