Asda Black Friday shoppers chaos

As tradition of US Black Friday holiday discounts seems successfully into UK bringing with it both crowds and chaos. Many shoppers desperate for bargains caused chaos in Asda stores on Friday as the Walmart-owned supermarket brought the US tradition of Black Friday to Britain. According to theguardian.com Asda said it had tried to ensure safety by putting security guards in all its stores. A spokesman said: "This is the first time Black Friday has been done on this scale in stores across the UK and our customers were eager to take advantage of the great offers available to them. We planned for high demand and the half a million Black Friday products on offer to our customers have been selling quickly since 8am." The store group knew certain products would be popular, but "no one expected some of them to be sold out within a few hours", it added.

A shopper is restrained by security guards after a row broke out on Black Friday at Asda in Cribbs Causeway, Bristol. Photo: SWNS.com , theguardian.com

 Electronic goods seemed to be the main draw for shoppers, but Asda staff were verbally abused by customers who is upset by the lack of stock. According to independene.co.uk a spokeswoman for Asda said:"This is the first time Black Friday has been done on this scale in stores across the UK and our customers were eager to take advantage of the great offers available to them. We planned for high demand and the half a million Black Friday products on offer to our customers have been selling quickly since 8am. 

"Throughout the event, the safety of our customers is of vital importance and to ensure our stores can cope with the extra footfall we have full security teams in our stores and extra colleagues to help assist customers in the aisles."