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One of the biggest shopping days of the year has out millions of bargain hunters across the world. The day is Black Friday. Real and online stores discounts of up to 70 per cent on thousands of items. It is traditionally a big shopping day in the USA, but four years ago it the Atlantic and is now huge in the U.K. It has so popular in Britain that police had to be to four supermarkets just after midnight on Friday (the bargains on sale at one minute past midnight). Police were about shoppers getting in the crowds. A police spokesman said: "Officers have with store staff to ensure that sale-goers were able to enter and exit the stores safely."

While shoppers in the U.K. were happy to to the shops, many store workers in the USA were angry. Many stores to start Black Friday a day early, which was on the US celebration of Thanksgiving. Store employees and shoppers it was wrong for stores to employees to work on Thanksgiving, which is traditionally a time for people to with their family. A 'Boycott Black Thursday' Facebook page more than 114,000 likes. Many big stores, such as Costco and IKEA, did not . CNN reports that there are over 60 petitions on the website Change.org to get stores and customers to Black Friday. They a bigger focus on family instead of profits.