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

While shoppers in the U.K. were happy to head to the shops, many store in the USA were angry. Many stores decided to start Black Friday a day , which was on the US of Thanksgiving. Store employees and shoppers thought it was for stores to ask employees to work on Thanksgiving, which is a time for people to spend with their . A 'Boycott Black Thursday' Facebook has more than 114,000 likes. Many big stores, such as Costco and IKEA, did not open. CNN reports that there are over 60 on the website Change.org trying to get stores and customers to change Black Friday. They want a focus on family instead of .

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