Black Friday bargain-hunting has gone global — with shoppers from Belarus to Brazil now clamoring for cheap electronics and designer duds on the day.
The time-honored American carnival of consumerism has spread around the world, showing up in Europe, South America and Africa this year — thanks in part to the global expansion of Walmart and the unstoppable march of online shopping giant Amazon, according to reports.
In Argentina, Black Friday sales have grown more than 376% in the past five years, according to a survey by Black Friday Global.
Walmart in 2013 announced its Argentinian stores would offer the same deals the day after Thanksgiving as the rest of North America.
In South Africa, bargain madness took hold in the cities of Cape Town and Johannesburg, as stores opened to long lines of shoppers that snaked through parking lots in the dark, according to the BBC.
In footage taken at one mall, police used barriers to hold back a sea of shoppers who pushed through and rushed into a local electronics store to snag cut-price TVs.
In the Czech Republic, one electronics outlet encouraged shoppers to “Make Black Friday Great Again,” in an advertisement featuring a suited man wearing a red cap.
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A transit advertisement for Black Friday in Prague.AP


