What is "Black Friday"?

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"Black Friday" is the day after Thanksgiving when stores have HUGE sales to start off the Christmas buying season.

It's called "Black Friday" because the sales and profits on that day put the store's bookkeeping "in the black" which means that they make a profit, instead of "in the red" which means taking a loss, and those distinctions come from the old days, when bookkeeping was done by hand, in pen, and they would use black ink for profits and red ink for losses.

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According "wisegeek.com",
"Black Friday is the discount shopping day that follows American Thanksgiving, which is always on a Thursday. Retailers promote Black Friday as the day to start shopping for Christmas. Black Friday is often advertised with "Christmas Sales" as well as "Thanksgiving Sales." The word "black" in Black Friday refers to the term "in the black" meaning making a profit."...Show more

Black Friday is one of the largest shopping days of the year. It is the Friday after Thanksgiving, and it marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
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Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It's when all the stores are having their sales for Christmas, and the malls are REALLY crowded. Some stores like Walmart have huge sales, and I'm pretty sure last year a couple people got trampled, and a few died. So please, if you go, be careful!

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