Shopping streets packed with bargain hunters: ‘Actually, they should have just banned Black Friday’ | Inland

Crowds in the Amsterdam Kalverstraat.

Ⓒ MARCEL ANTONISSE

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Amsterdam – Lines of bargain hunters in front of the shops drive doctors and administrators to despair. Although the 25 mayors urged the cabinet to ban Black Friday, this was not heeded. The result: crowded city centers and mayors who did little else than call not to come anymore. A request that fell on deaf ears in many cases.

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