Why is "Black Friday" so called?
It started in 1966 when a Philadelphia newspaper ran a story describing what the Police Department named the day, after the crowds and traffic jams, blocked the streets, at the stores in the town. The Police Department called the day, "Black Friday". That would be nothing compared to what the police have to deal with today. I am very sympathetic to them, and I believe they do a wonderful job in general.
It also heralds the beginning of the Christmas shopping season, happening long before the sixties. It began unofficially in the 1930s. President Roosevelt set Thanksgiving at a week earlier than previously to facilitate retailers with an extra week of retail revenue. Of course the retailers were very pleased, but not so the shoppers who were inconvenienced by the change of date.
If the police thought it was bad in the sixties, I'm pretty sure they must dread the day now.
Wal-Mart looks to attract the worst of the violence, and usually in the Electronics Department, even in the car park, where I remember two people were shot last year, due to parking space rage. And a man was unbelievably trampled to death in New York about five years ago, when crowds pushed their way through the doors of Wal-Mart. The doors were broken down, and several people were injured in this foray.
"Black Friday" is a very negative description, and there have been others like "Black Monday" "Black Tuesday" and "Black Thursday" - all bad days.
For retailers now, of course "Black Friday" can and usually is a very profitable day. When all is said and done, to be in the "black" is by far, much better than to be in the "red".
We do not have "Black Friday" in Australia, but like every where else outside the United States of America we all benefit from the great sales and shopping online. It's also a lot cheaper.
I sincerely hope and pray, that shopping for bargains this year will be a more pleasurable and less violent one, than we have seen, too many times already.
For me, I'd much more visit my sister and brother-in-law, who live in sunny California, and shop in regular times, and there's always a bargain to be found, somewhere.
I love the USA.
And I love shopping, and the politeness that I always experience everywhere I go in the United States of America.
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Source by Kay Collier http://shoppingdealer.com/top-procducts/why-is-black-friday-so-popular/ Add to Cart
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