Black Friday since the annual shopping tradition moved north of the border.Gone were the door-crasher sales, crowds and busy lineups usually associated with the event, as businesses headed into the make-or-break pre-Christmas month amid COVID-19 concerns.
B.C.’s small businesses fear cold Christmas amid surging COVID-19 cases “It was quite weird, because normally at 12 a.m., I would drive by and I would see people with tents and people with their chairs sitting, waiting to get that deal,” said Visions Electronics store manager Jawad Waraich.His company, which pioneered Black Friday in Canada, pushed many of its deals online, while stretching what would normally be a one-day sale to three days to accommodate shoppers who still want to.