♥What's black friday mean?

Question

And when is it?

Answer 1

It's the day after Thanksgiving, the day that poor black people wait for to shop on because everything is on sale.

Answer 2

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving when all the shoppers go crazy shopping for Christmas. It is refered to as Black Friday because this is when the stores P&L numbers go from red to black. (Meaning the make money)

Answer 3

Tomorrow , the day after Thanksgiving . The meaning comes from the fact that any retail store that suffers all year for sales can usually get back into the black and out of the red . GET IT ?

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Carrie has it right. At this time of year when you hear references to 'black Friday' it is in regards to retailers turning a profit.
Origin: The origin of Black Friday comes from the shift to profitability during the holiday season. Black Friday was when retailers went from being unprofitable, or "in the red," to being profitable, or "in the black", at a time when accounting records were kept by hand and red indicated loss and black profit.

Answer 6

It is the day after Thanksgiving when all the store have things on sale for Christmas and people mob the shops.

Also, it was the day the American Stock Market plunged thus creating the Great Depression in 1929

Answer 7

That is when EVERY Store has sales the Day AFTER Thanksgiving,which is on Friday......most stores open early as in 5am or 6 am and have sales that last until 11 am Noon or whenever the store decides to end the sale that day. Also this year I noticed,that Target is having a 2 Day Sale,which is kinda neat. Also I learned that you can go on WalMart.com and see the "secret" items on sale tomorrow. Most stores as in Target,WalMart,etc that have weekly circulars(sale ads) are posting their's on their websites for customers to see some of what is going to be on sale during those early hours.......get some sleep tonight and set your alarm for 3 am and get out to the stores and shop and save lots and lots of money........GOOD LUCK..........and wear comfortable shoes,and clothing.........watch out for the shoppers they can be brutal when it comes to running in the doors to get those bargains LOL........

Answer 8

Black Friday is always the day after thanksgiving. I am not completely sure about it's origin but i believe it has something to do with a stock market crash one black Friday many years ago.

Answer 9

Tomorrow

The ultimate bastage of Capitalism

You stand outside from 2 AM in the cold, rain and snow with your AK47 and kill off as many in front of you as you can before the retailer opens at 5 AM

To buy the $150 computer of which there is only 17 available.

Considering it comes with a Wide Screen LCD and DVD burner and last month I bought a box only with just a DVD player for $350, it might be worth the carnage!

Two years ago this woman told me she made $1,000 profit buy and selling camera bundles from stores on E-Bay.

Answer 10

It was the Friday after Thanksgiving.

BLACK FRIDAY (SHOPPING) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_Sale
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving in the United States, is historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year. Many consider it the "official" beginning to the holiday season. Most retailers will open very early and usually provide massive discounts on their products.

Although Black Friday is typically the busiest shopping day of the year in terms of customer traffic, it is not typically the day with the highest sales volume. That is usually either Christmas Eve or the last Saturday before Christmas.

Origin

The first use of this term to describe the day after Thanksgiving is not exactly known. There are two popular theories as to its origin.

Accounting practice

One theory is that stores traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. When this would be recorded in the financial records, common accounting practices use red ink to show negative amounts and black ink would show positive amounts. Black Friday is the beginning of the period where they would no longer have losses (the red) and instead take in the year's profits (the black).

Stress from large crowds

Another theory comes from the fact that shopping experience on this day can be extremely stressful. The term is used as a comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Thursday or other black days. According to The Word Spy:

Earliest Citation:
Christmas decorations around Tampa Bay started going up in late October, and business has been brisk since then. And while Friday--known as Black Friday for the legendary hordes--will be the biggest shopping day for many area stores, others ring up the greatest sales the Saturday before Christmas.
—Marilyn Marks, "Retailers expect good sales this Christmas," St. Petersburg Times, November 27, 1986

There exists an earlier reference, speaking to the Friday after Thanksgiving:

A BLACK FRIDAY.
There have been many Black Fridays in recent history. Most of them have been days of financial panic. There has been none of blacker foreboding than last Friday. And the blackness is not loss or fear of loss in stocks and bonds.
New York Times (1857-Current file).
New York, N.Y.: Dec 3, 1922. pg. 38, 1 pgs
ISSN/ISBN 03624331

Employees of retail stores have for years referred to Black Friday in a satirical way, to note the extremely stressful and hectic nature of the day. Heavy traffic and customer demands added to the long hours make it a difficult day.


Black Friday on the Internet

Advertisements in advance

Certain websites such as DealTaker.com offer information about Black Friday deals up to a month in advance. The text listings of prices are usually accompanied by adscans -- complete PDFs either leaked by insiders, or intentionally released by large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to plan.

Cyber Monday

The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, which unofficially marks the beginning of the holiday online shopping season.

In recent years, Cyber Monday has become a busy day for online retailers, with some sites offering low prices and other promotions on that day.

Controversy

Response (Buy Nothing Day)

Anti-consumer frenzy protesters have chosen this day as Buy Nothing Day in North America, where those concerned about the increasing power and influence of consumer corporations are urged to not make consumer purchases.

DMCA

In recent years, some retailers (including Wal-Mart, Target Corporation, Best Buy, and Staples, Inc.) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisement are intellectual property and protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Using the take down provision of the DMCA, these retailers have threatened various internet web sites who post Black Friday prices to the internet in advance of the intended release date by the retailers. This policy apparently derives from a fear that competitors, in addition to customers, will also have access to this information and use it for competitive advantage. The actual validity of the claim that prices are protected intellectual property is uncertain as prices might be considered a 'fact' in which case they would not receive the same level of protection as pure intellectual property.

The benefit of threatening internet sites with a DMCA based lawsuit has proved tenuous at best. While some sites have complied with the requests, others have either ignored the threats or simply continued to post the information under the name of a similar sounding fictional retailer.

Answer 11

I heard it is the day after thanksgiving when all the stores sell so much merchandise, there ledgers are in the black instead of in the red.