Black Friday transactions up, sales down, early data shows

LONDON (Reuters) - Black Friday transactions in Britain are up versus last year but the amount spent has been lower, initial data showed on Friday.Barclaycard, which processes nearly half of all debit and credit card transactions in the UK, had, as of 1000 GMT, seen a 16 percent increase in the volume of payment transactions compared to the same period on Black Friday last year, it said.But it had also seen a 21 percent decrease in the amount spent.The data indicates that Britons are favouring..