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It's tough to say for sure who the first person to ever utter the words "Black Friday" might have been, but here's everything we know about its origins. Where did the name come from?
Why is it called Black Friday? Black Friday began in Philadelphia in the early 1950s. Ahead of the big Saturday Army-Navy football game, suburbanites would head into the city for the game and...
Here's a crash course on how Black Friday got its start, name and more.
Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight or even on Thanksgiving.
Black Friday (hoax), online hoax about the origin of the name. Black Friday (partying), the last Friday before Christmas in the United Kingdom. Good Friday or Black Friday, day of Christian observance in commemoration of Jesus' crucifixion.
Black Friday refers to any one of several historical disasters that happened on Fridays, and, in a general sense, to any Friday the thirteenth. In the United States, Black Friday is also the nickname of the day after Thanksgiving, the first day of the traditional Christmas shopping season.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the day retailers are "in the black." Here's how Black Friday got its name.
Good Friday is a Christian holy day observing the crucifixion of Jesus and his death at Calvary. It is observed during Holy Week as part of the Paschal Triduum. It is also known as Black Friday, Holy Friday, Great Friday, Good Friday of the Passion of the Lord, Great and Holy Friday (also Holy and Great Friday ).
Modern Black Friday. The Black Friday shoppers know and love — and friends and families of retail employees have heard horror stories of — didn't really come to be until the late 1980s.
Cyber Monday has become the online equivalent to Black Friday and offers a way for smaller retail websites to compete with larger chains. Since its inception, it has become an international marketing term used by online retailers around the world.
