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What is Black friday please explain?

I keep hearing about BLACK FRIDAY which i see it's popular around here. I want to know what it is? What does it means? what it's purpose? Is it important? And is it a regular holiday or is it even a holiday? I'm sorry i'm asking allot , but i'm really lost about this....

If you know any site with facts about it that can help too.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There are actually alot of "Black Fridays." The one I think you're referring to is the Friday after Thanksgiving, when most stores have big sales.

    Black Friday is called that b/c it's the start of the season when most retailers "enter the black," which means "turn a profit." ("In the red" means losing money, "in the black" means making money.) Black Friday is not a holiday; it has no religious roots or significance.

  • 1 decade ago

    In business you are either in the red or the black. Red means you are losing and being in the black means you are doing good. Black friday is the beginning of the holiday shopping. More people shop on that day than any other day of the year and retailers hope that they will be in the black instead of the red.

  • 4 years ago

    Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving interior usa, the place this is the commencing up of the classic Christmas procuring season. no longer all products are discounted so don't have your heart set on a somewhat affordable fee yet you are able to in all threat assume 10%+ off. and it would honestly be on your suitable activity to look early the shops would be ridiculously busy

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving. It is like a tradition where everybody starts their Holiday shopping right when Thanksgiving ends. So the stores put a whole bunch of things on sale so that people can get really good deals and people show up at like 3 am. at stores just to get good discounts. It is sort of like a made up tradition not a holiday.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Black Friday is the friday after thanksgiving when all major deparment stores,sale there items for a really cheap price,it usally starts a 4 a.m and end around 1.p.m its usally really crowded in stores.

    Hope this Helps

  • 1 decade ago

    Okay. Black Friday is where it's supposed to be a "bad luck" day, and since a lot of people have bad luck on Black Friday, all the stores lower their prices. Like at Best Buy, on Black Friday, they drop their prices so much, that they have a flat screen for 699$ on regular price, but on Black Friday, they have it for 545$ or something.

  • 1 decade ago

    I used to work in retail and black friday is when you go into the black instead of the red meaning that your store is turning a profit and not in the red anymore meaning no profits.

  • 1 decade ago

    it's the day after thanksgiving and the BIGGEST shopping day of the year. people go out around 3 and start shopping to beat everyone else and get all the good stuff. try not to go to walmart that day because people are crazy! people WILL run you over with their buggies. but yeah on black friday, most places have big sales like jcp, walmart, and different stores like that. i would advize you to NOT go shopping on this day. even though you can get good deals, people go crazy and they fight over stuff and you just don't wanna deal with all the lines and madness. someone died on black friday a couple years ago, i forgot where, but they like got strampled or something. but yeah, that's black friday! it's not a holiday, just a mad shopping day!

  • 1 decade ago

    some stores are in the "Red" level for purchases and money they earn, red level mean that they dont have enough money to be in the black level ,black friday is day where alot stores enter the "Black" level which is good, meaning they make most of their money on that day

  • 1 decade ago

    it is a day when most store items go on sale.

    its only important if ur lookin to get a good deal on somethin u wanna buy.

    it usually happens the Friday after thanks giving.

    Source(s): my exp
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