<b>Black Friday is a brilliant way to get rid of all the crap nobody wanted to buy during the rest of the year, retailers have agreed.</b>

Shops say they can sell any old rubbish just by putting a Black Friday 20% off sale sticker on it.


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Ramsey Streeter, of the Institute of Retail Stores Studies, said: "The public is generally quite stupid and can be relied upon to fall for every snake-oil scam in the book.

"Black Friday is perfect for fishing out all the stock gathering dust at the back of the warehouse and putting it on the shelves as a must-have bargain."

But shoppers in Suffolk were today totally engrossed in the Black Friday experience. Rav Singh, 27, from Ipswich, said: "I picked up this brilliant electric egg whisk in town this morning because it had £2 off.

"And when I get home I'm going online to find some more bargain goods that I did not know I wanted."

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