Inside Amazon warehouse ‘the size of 17 football pitches’ as it prepares for Black Friday

Black Friday is (almost) right here and eager patrons are gearing up for one of many largest buying gross sales of the 12 months.

This 12 months, the much-anticipated day falls on Friday (25 November), the day after Thanksgiving within the US.

Black Friday originated within the US after manufacturers began to placed on huge gross sales on the day following Thanksgiving to mark the start of the Christmas buying interval.

It has since turn into a worldwide occasion, with analysis from PwC estimating that the common spend per individual within the UK will probably be £238, with gross sales estimated to be £500m larger than in 2021.

One of many largest digital retailers, Amazon, is readying its warehouses in preparation for the sale.

One in every of Amazon’s largest UK depots, situated in Fife, stretches greater than 1.5million sq. toes and options three miles of conveyors.

It’s the measurement of 17 soccer pitches, and objects ready to be packaged by staff may very well be seen stacked ground to ceiling.

A whole lot of seasonal workers will be part of the manufacturing facility’s everlasting workforce, which is round 1,200 folks sturdy.

The location has 5,900 photo voltaic panels, producing the equal quantity of electrical energy wanted to energy 320 houses per 12 months.

This 12 months, Amazon’s Black Friday gross sales start on 18 November and finish on Cyber Monday, 28 November.

The PwC analysis additionally discovered that almost all of customers will probably be purchasing for electricals (51 per cent), vogue (32 per cent), and Christmas stocking fillers (28 per cent).

Martin Lewis, founding father of MoneySavingExpert, beforehand suggested consumers to not spend cash for the sake of it.

Lewis stated: “My Black Friday buying memo … For those who had been going to purchase it anyway and it’s half worth, you’ve saved 50 per cent. For those who weren’t going to purchase it, however do [it ]as a result of it’s half worth, you’ve wasted 100 per cent.”

Extra reporting by SWNS