At the University of Scotland, the last day of the trimester leading up to Christmas is “Daft Friday”, with a ball that runs from 8pm to 8am.

The following day is “Black Saturday ” – because everyone is dog-tired, hungover or both. No way to travel but around an hour but take a map.

“Black Friday” is also a day after a day of notable celebration and consumption to excess, so may likewise be named for the feelings of exhaustion, and the need to recover from the celebrations of the day before.

Black Friday is either first used in November 1951 as a description of factory workers taking sick days, or in 1966 in Philadelphia as another describe the rush of people coming into the city for army/Navy football games.

The term ‘black’ for a bad market day was already established by sometime in the late 19th century, and the US had a historic ‘Black Monday’ and ‘Black Tuesday’ in 1929 which have been recognized as the start of the Great Depression, where the Dow Jones lost almost 25% of it’s value over the course of both days. In a story about the Black Friday incident in the US in 1948, the term was associated with a widespread “sickness” that appeared to

1. befall factory workers on the day after Thanksgiving. It was recommended that factory managers offer the day as an extra holiday as a ‘gap negotiation chip’ with employees, since the day was already one of relatively little production. The author used the term again in a February 1952 issue when mentioning that one company did indeed add ‘Black Friday’ to their paid holidays.

2. Why is Black Friday growing in popularity in Philadelphia? Is “Late Black Saturday” still in use today? Is Thanksgiving observed the day after Thanksgiving? From a marketing angle, a few decades later, after some not-so-successful campaigning to change it to ‘Big Friday’, retailers finally accepted the name, and changed the meaning that they went from ‘in the red’ to ‘in the black’ because of the revenue earned that particular day.

Which is more innocent if the name “Critical” only has negative intentions? Why is the negative slant used in Advertising as a media industry rather than anything else?

Snopes has a great rundown of quotes from various sources.

How, as explained to me in childhood. Black Friday is when shops are expecting to go in the BLACK. Many stores would run through the year reporting positive (red) earnings, but the massives spending would put their ledgers in BLACK (positive territory)

It is like saying ‘Profits Friday’ but was more catchy.

Come on old profits charts! Red ink from the printing press was used for debt, black ink was used for profit. In the printing press saw white characters, white ink from black, silver and blue. If I can get into the black, the better I will be and

make a decision.

What exactly is the definition of “open space”? I started when americans got free days because of thanksgiving and a lot of them take this day to shop for Christmas gifts which is generallyy 4 weeks after.

Are there any signs that it’s because markets went from black to red or it’s merely because they are changing colour and/or people are saying it’s because they’re making profit then nothing seems true? Since in majority of USA/Canada, income year for bussinesses begins in July except Back To School, Black Friday is the sale that can negate debts.

Some people are talking about the negative impact of the word Black. Franu00e7ais Canada for instance, it’s called Vendredi Fou (which means Crazy Friday), because Noir (black in French) is bad.

What is the history of the Black community in the United States and how it started.

To make matters worse, that incredibly derogatory video posted on YouTube by Rebecca Black reached 1 million downvotes in 24 hours right now.

Since Thanksgiving is almost over, every U.S. day is marked as “a day of thanksgiving.” Why is this way for a long time?

Why Black Fridays have become so popular lately?

My sister-in-law told me about the fact that Thanksgiving Day was the single biggest shopping day in the U.S. but the U.S. also included the day of shopping in her wedding. I think it was about 25 years ago. When I heard this fact, my niece said, “My Daddy buys the flowers, I can only buy the fruit, I can only make it one day” and it was officially declared hOLIDAY. By all accounts I found a good part of the evidence to prove it to myself that I’ve heard of Black Friday at work and had that day too at company. But I don’t recall hearing it until relatively recently. “Black” referring to accounting sense of the word.

My distinction is between the longstanding tradition of Thanksgiving and spring. It is less than the present tradition of springtime. From your comment, how did you get Black Friday?

Black Friday is followed by Small Business Saturday (where consumers are encouraged to buy from smaller local stores, rather than chains) and Cyber Monday (where office workers allegedly continue their holiday expenditures by shopping on-line using their work computers). Are these nicknames all driven by the commercial sector with retailer using cutthroat gimmicks as they compete for consumer dollars? There are those that say this festival is not official, but rather a much-improved phenomenon. Will these terms keep on changing or be simply removed or change in the future?