This week's Black Friday retail sales phenomenon - an import from the United States' Thanksgiving holiday long weekend - is expected to surpass even Boxing Day as the biggest sale day of the year.
The corporate invention has become a 'thing' in the local shopping calendar like never before this year, say a range of close observers of the local retail sector.
Broadcaster Dean Butler joined The Panel on The Weekend Collective to discuss Black Friday, along with other issues making news this week.
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