{"id":356295,"date":"2019-11-22T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T07:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=356295"},"modified":"2019-11-22T11:51:32","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:51:32","slug":"istore-launches-early-black-friday-2019-deals-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/black-friday\/356295\/istore-launches-early-black-friday-2019-deals-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"iStore launches early Black Friday 2019 deals in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African iStore has launched its Grey Friday deals for 2019, a promotion it describes as &#8216;Black Friday but a week earlier&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The group said that the specials will be available online-only between 09h00 &#8211; 21h00 on 22 November.<\/p>\n<p>The iStore said that a number of items are on sale including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Macbook bundle deals;<\/li>\n<li>iPads;<\/li>\n<li>iPhones;<\/li>\n<li>Apple TVs;<\/li>\n<li>Headphones;<\/li>\n<li>Covers;<\/li>\n<li>Various accessories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find the full list of items on sale <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myistore.co.za\/grey-friday-deals?utm_campaign=2020%20Q1%20Grey%20Friday%20Mailer%202%20-%20Start%20shopping&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=SFMC&amp;utm_content=https%3a%2f%2fwww.myistore.co.za%2fgrey-friday-deals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a  data-lightbox=\"post-image\" href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-356301 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1561\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple.png 1561w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple-300x106.png 300w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple-1024x361.png 1024w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple-768x271.png 768w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple-1536x542.png 1536w, https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Apple-1200x424.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1561px) 100vw, 1561px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Set to fall on 29 November, Black Friday marks the start of the festive season for many retailers and is often seen as the biggest shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>FNB has seen a substantial increase in transaction volumes for the period between Black Friday and Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Black Friday transaction volumes grew by 16% compared to 2017. The total number of transactions processed through our payment system over the course of the Black Friday weekend were 10 million on Friday, 8 million on Saturday, 5.9 million on Sunday and 6 million on Cyber Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This year it said it anticipates a 15% increase in the total number of transactions between 29 November and 02 December<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/business\/356037\/here-are-makros-black-friday-deals-for-2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Here are Makro\u2019s Black Friday deals for 2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South African iStore has launched its Grey Friday deals for 2019, a promotion it describes as &#8216;Black Friday but a week earlier&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":356297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14535],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-356295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-friday","tag-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":356303,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356295\/revisions\/356303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}