Tag: Black friday
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UK Amazon workers to stage Black Friday walkout
Amazon workers in the UK will go on strike on Black Friday – one of the busiest shopping days of the year – in a long-running dispute over pay.
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Black Friday is immoral – Hisbah board
The Kano State hisbah board has warned residents of the State against tagging any Friday as Black Friday, saying Black Friday is immoral. The board said it would go around for surveillance purposes with a view to avoiding Black Friday in the State after tagging it as immoral. This was contained in a letter signed…
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Black Friday: Online shoppers express distrust of Nigerian e-commerce platforms
Nigerian online shoppers have expressed their distrust of e-commerce platforms offering Black Friday deals. Monitoring the black Friday conversations on social media, most Nigerian online shoppers revealed lack of trust, as they believed many e-commerce companies offering Black Friday sales were doing so simply to boost their sales without really offering great discounts to buyers…
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Black Friday and the Nigerian Entrepreneur
The earliest mention of the phrase Black Friday was used to describe the day after Thanksgiving in the United States in 1952, which is usually the Friday after the fourth Thursday in November — a day considered to be the beginning of the country’s Christmas shopping season. Black Friday was coined to describe the heavy…