Is Black Friday dangerous...?

Question

Sure, the stuff is cheap, but police say it also attracts thieves. During the Black Friday of 2005, police in Knoxville say there were 48 thefts. Thirty-eight of those were things taken from inside automobiles.

Are you going shopping for stuff tomorrow?

Answer 1

i'm not going early. just after the whole rush is true. sure, all the really cheap stuff will be gone, but better safe than sorry!

Answer 2

Yes it can be very dangerous for the people that go shopping. They can easily max out their credit cards or go broke. One year I spent soooo much money on black friday...it was very dangerous. Tomarrow I am not going shopping...I will probably go later on in December.

Answer 3

It can be dangerous, but you must be aware of your surrounding. I'm going tomorrow, But just to a couple of places, also when I put stuff in my car, I take a blanket with me and cover my packages. Hope this helps. Good luck

Answer 4

Yup, Im going out at 5am :)

Last year was a lot of fun. Make sure not to wear your coat in otherwise you'll be dragging it wherever you go!

Answer 5

i never go during black friday.

this time of the year, i prefer to go to the mall after school when theres not a ton of people there.

Answer 6

Yes, I am going to shop tomorrow. LoL.

Answer 7

yeah loads of **** happen plus stampedes and stuff so u better watch out

Answer 8

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, the last Saturday before Christmas, or December 26th (see Boxing Day).[1]
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* 1 Origin
o 1.1 Accounting practice
o 1.2 Stress from large crowds
* 2 Black Friday on the Internet
o 2.1 Advertisements in advance
o 2.2 Cyber Monday
* 3 Controversy
o 3.1 Response (Buy Nothing Day)
o 3.2 DMCA
* 4 See also

[edit] 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.

[edit] Accounting practice

One theory is that retailers 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).

Earliest Citation, 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

Look up in the red, in the black in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

[edit] 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


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.

[edit] Black Friday on the Internet

[edit] Advertisements in advance

Certain websites 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.

[edit] Cyber Monday

Main article: 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.

[edit] Controversy

[edit] 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.

[edit] 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 9

YEAH THE PEOPLE PUSHING AND SHOVING

Answer 10

YES I AM!!!!