Black Friday
Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season.
The "black" in the name is a spoof of the term "black Tuesday" of the 1929 stock market crash. Retail employees nicknamed the day this way because of how frightening and exhausting the day is. Most retailers will open very early on "black Friday."
The name also has a double meaning, dating from the years when ledgers were kept by hand, in pen: referring to the black ink used to designate operating profits, as the day after Thanksgiving was generally the first day of the year that retailers operated in the black.
Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve or the last Saturday before Christmas.
The "black" in the name is a spoof of the term "black Tuesday" of the 1929 stock market crash. Retail employees nicknamed the day this way because of how frightening and exhausting the day is. Most retailers will open very early on "black Friday."
The name also has a double meaning, dating from the years when ledgers were kept by hand, in pen: referring to the black ink used to designate operating profits, as the day after Thanksgiving was generally the first day of the year that retailers operated in the black.
Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve or the last Saturday before Christmas.
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