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Posted By MaryMiranda on January 30, 2011

black friday is one of the biggest shopping days of the year, fresh from the Thanksgiving festivities, shoppers throng the stores for best bargains of the year, many stores like Macys, WalMart, Toys R Us, Gap etcetera vast lines of shoppers from the wee hours of the morning, black Friday is an prescribed term given to the day after Thanksgiving and it formally kit starts the Christmas shopping season in USA, shopping malls, stores and almost all shopping venues grant great deductions and offers up to tap the exuberance of shoppers, the tradition of this day goes back to the year nineteen twenty four, when after Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade, the popular New York City store held a big sale, the sale became so popular that soon, other stores also started having huge sales on the day, in fact, President Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day to a week earlier to give encouragement to the economy after the great depression of nineteen twenty nine.   But this day did not get its present title for many coming decades and up until nineteen sixty six, the day was only known as After Thanksgiving Sales, it got this name by Police Department of Philadelphia, the haste of rushed shoppers made a number of car crashes and road rage incidents on this day, all this increased the strain on poor Policemen and they started calling it, the black Friday, this term got a whole new meaning few years afterward, when it was linked up to the financial aspect of the day, in accounts bookkeeping, profits are demonstrated in Black color, while loss is designated in Red, since, this day conveys lots of profit for the retailers ; they began naming it black Friday, whoever came up with the term, one thing is for sure that this day has become a cultural vacation for Americans.

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