Black Friday will shift sales online and cut pre-Christmas footfall

Although high street will lose out further, online sales rise is slowing, says insight group•Black Friday 2018: all the best deals in one placeBritain’s battered high streets will take another pounding this week with retail experts predicting that the Black Friday phenomenon will push even more shoppers online and slash footfall during the crucial pre-Christmas sales period.The Springboard group, which tracks shopper numbers at 4,500 locations across the UK, said it expects footfall w