Watch: Shoppers take to eerily quiet streets of Glasgow for Black Friday during a pandemic

Watch this video to see a very different version of Black Friday in the centre of Glasgow.

Usually the streets are mobbed with hordes of focused shoppers who know what they want and where to get it for the best deal.

But this year, coronavirus took its toll on the shopping extravaganza that is Black Friday.

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One woman said: “So far it’s been pretty quiet, we were out for a coffee and honestly I forgot that it was Black Friday because nobody is here.”

Black Friday in Glagsow.Black Friday in Glagsow.
Black Friday in Glagsow.

Another said: “The streets are just so quiet, it doesn’t feel like there is the urgency and rush that there normally is, it’s not exciting.”

Another woman appropriately said that she thinks ‘Black Friday is very black in Glasgow this year’. She continued to say: “Fraser’s has got beautiful lights out but the town is just

dead, hopefully in another couple of weeks it will all pick up.”

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