Black Friday is observed on November 26 this year. It is a colloquial term for the Friday following Thanksgiving, observed in the United States of America. The stores offer sales and discounted prices. It is the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.
Black Friday is a weekend sale, marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. People all over the world and India get high discounts on different brands and stores. Yes, the tradition has now been adopted by retailers all over the world.
Originally it is celebrated each year on the fourth Thursday of November after Franklin D Roosevelt expressed a proclamation in 1942.
The term Black Friday commenced in the US, the day after Thanksgiving appeared in the journal, Factory Management and Maintenance in Philadelphia.
The term ‘Black Friday’ and ‘Black Saturday’ came to be used by the police in Philadelphia and Rochester to describe the crowds and traffic jams with the start of the Christmas shopping season. And particularly Black Friday was used by Philadelphia’s police to explain pedestrian and vehicular traffic that would occur on the day of Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Day Parade by the US department store Macy’s stiffened the association between the Friday after Thanksgiving and the initiation of the shopping season.
