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Retailers hoping for record Black Friday sales

Retailers are still hoping to clock up record Black Friday sales despite a slow start to the heavily discounted shopping day.

Millions of consumers are set to spend their way to the UK's first £1 billion online shopping day today as retailers hope for a repeat of last year's bargain frenzy.

Retailers made cut-price deals available online from midnight and many spent the night preparing to open their doors early to customers desperate to snap up discounted stock, ranging from televisions to toothbrushes.

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Websites under pressure as Black Friday shopping goes online

Websites are reportedly feeling the pressure as this year's Black Friday shopping event has seen a surge in online shopping rather than instore purchasing.

While shops were quieter than expected websites for stores saw increased numbers of people logging on and slowing down their web page loading times.

Argos appeared to be one of the brands experiencing the biggest delays on its website with pages taking almost four seconds to load during the hour to 1pm and the entire site remaining unavailable at least 20% of the time.

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