What is the origin of the term "Black Friday"?
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The Friday after Thanksgiving Day is called Black Friday.
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The idea is that retailers are in the red all year. The don't realize a profit until the Friday after Thanksgiving, when as a result of many sales, they are finally in the black (realizing a profit) for the year. It doesn't refer to the fact that you can get "black" and blue by being crushed under the stampede of crazy bargain hunters when the store opens, but that could be appropriate.
Is it the Friday after Thanksgiving when all merchants hope to have their books in the black due to Christmas shoppers?
Total Answers: 3, Total Page Views: 1,473.The term Black Friday is associated with Friday the 13th. The superstition began in 1869 when Gioachino Rossini wrote something pertaining to any date upon which Friday falls on the 13th as being a bad omen. Somewhere over the course of time Friday the 13th acquired the name Black Friday. Subsequently, at different times when bad things did, in fact, happen on those dates, people assumed it was evidence of the validity of the superstition. Black Friday has been associated with the economic crisis on Wallstreet in 1929, and with other events ever since. In current history, if a business is not "in the black" by the Friday following Thanksgiving, it is a bad omen... For sure, they may not make it into the red by years end.
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