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Black Friday - What is Black Friday: Everything you need to know about the shopping holiday

Black Friday

Black Friday or Black Friday is an American shopping holiday that has also become popular in Slovenia. On this day - it is the Friday after Thanksgiving - stores offer special discounts, so people flock to the stores and are ready to step up for the products. Every year, videos of fights, hand-wringing, stampedes, etc. come from America, which have become the constant star of Black Friday. Fortunately, we are not yet in such an obsessive state and people do not lose their cool and temper, so this American holiday, similar to Halloween, has already been adopted by almost all of our merchants. Customers, however, have never resisted discounts...

Black Friday or Black Friday, as the Americans call it, is the day when people shake shopping spree. Following Thanksgiving (Thanksgiving Day), which is celebrated in the United States every fourth Thursday in November. This year, Black Friday falls on November 25, 2016. This day officially opens the era pre-Christmas shopping frenzy. Most stores open very early and offer special discounts.

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Black Friday (originating from Philadelphia) got its name after a traffic collapse, which followed the day after Thanksgiving. Then they added more financial explanation, namely that Black Friday marks the moment when traders begin to forge profits and they change from red to black numbers (these symbolize positive balances in the financial world).

On Black Friday, many shoppers lose not only their temper, but also their dignity.
On Black Friday, many shoppers lose not only their temper, but also their dignity.

The term dates back to the sixtieth, and the first sales on the day after Thanksgiving began as early as 1924 (department Macy's). Black Friday is today the biggest shopping holiday in the world, which spanned five days from Thanksgiving Thursday through Cyber Monday (the online version of Black Friday), known as Cyber Monday. It also takes place on Black Friday Buy Nothing Day, an informal day of protest against excessive consumerism that the world observes since 1992.

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