Queues formed outside supermarkets overnight
Shoppers were urged to "keep their cool" as fights and website crashes mar the battle to bag bargains in the run-up to Christmas.
Police have criticised supermarket chains after stores were over-run by bargain-hunters overnight as the US Black Friday retail phenomenon hit the UK.
Websites also crashed under the strain of online shoppers as sales began at midnight, with hordes descending on stores in a rush to pick up goods ahead of Christmas.
Officers were called to at least four supermarkets in London alone because of over-crowding while shoppers took to Twitter to describe "carnage" in stores, with some reports of people being stripped of cheap TVs and other goods by rivals in the scramble.
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