WATCH | Customers wrestle for Black Friday specials
For the love of bargains and good deals‚ customers across the country woke up at the crack of dawn to queue at retail stores in a bid to catch Black Friday specials.
At Avenue District Shopping Centre in Roodepoort‚ Johannesburg‚ customers were armed each with a trolley and when doors opened at exactly 7am on Friday‚ they battled their way into Checkers Hyper.
Some of the items they desperately wanted to get their hands on were toilet paper‚ baby diapers‚ cold drinks‚ margarine‚ washing powders‚ sanitary pads‚ and cereals. Customers flooded the shop's aisles and stocked up a storm.
Pushing a trolley seemed to be too much of a hassle for one man‚ who instead loaded his groceries into a sack. “Trolleys are a waste of time‚ I'd rather pull [a sack]‚” the customer remarked.
“I'm so excited about the prices. I'm here for a few things. But I'm annoyed because not everything is on special‚ so I will just get these toilets papers‚ as many as I can. And other things I need at home. It's hectic‚" said Lerato Mokwana while rushing to the queue for cereal boxes.
“I am here to buy pampers‚” said another customer.
In Cape Town, scenes were equally chaotic: