There was chaos at Dundee supermarkets today as shoppers fought for cheap goods.

Folk at Asda’s Milton and Kirkton stores were wrestling with each other for bargain TVs and other items as the retailer launched its ‘Black Friday’ sale.

Aileen Henderson, 51, said she had arrived early at the Milton store and managed to nab herself a 99 telly.

“I was here before 7.30am and it was pretty mad as people fought over the TVs but they are all gone now,” she said.

“I got one but I had to hold on tight to keep it. There’s lots of people that are very unhappy about it. It was very badly organised.”

One witness said he saw people trying to steal TVs off each other at the same store.

“When I got there, there were no large trolleys left outside at five to eight, because there were that many inside,” he said.

“One woman got herself in a fight with a guy.

“The guy tapped her on the opposite shoulder and tried to take her TV out her trolley while she wasn’t looking.

“I think they just had a bit of an argument with each other. But as she was arguing, someone tried to take the trolley that had the TV in it away from her.

“It was like there were people following other people with trolleys to see if they had the chance to get the stuff out of it.”

Today was the first time Asda has run a Black Friday sale in the United Kingdom.

In the US Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving and is one of the busiest shopping days.

Commenters online also spoke of chaos at Asda’s Kirkton store. Dundee man Alan Bryson-Sword wrote that people “were fighting over the TVs”.

“One woman had one side of the box and a man had the other and they were pulling like mad,” he posted. “But the woman won in the end.”

The crowds were more subdued at Asda’s Myrekirk store where staff said the shop had been busy with “more than 200 people queuing at the doors at 8am” but said there had been no incidents.

An Asda spokeswoman said it was the first time Black Friday sales had “been done on this scale in stores across the UK”.

She said: “We had full security teams in our stores and extra colleagues to help assist customers in the aisles.”