can anyone tell me wht exactly is black friday???:aq:
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its the friday after thanksgiving, start of the period where retailers make most money in the year.
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yes it is... its somthing that happens only in america.
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in addition to this ^…
Black Friday is also when you can find good sales as well. Well…at least that is what they make you think…it might just be a sales tactic 
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Retailers start their businesses when it is still dark.
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oh ok…thnx…no wonder never heard of it before…
its always marketting…sales tactics..
u mean before sunrise??:aq:
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well in realitywhen the term black friday came about it was due to companies becoming profitable during holiday season, businesses went from being red/unprofitbale to be blac/profitable. in accounting ledgers red was for negative and black was for positive.
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yes
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This may have been a misconception at least according to the Wiki article on this topic. Here is what it says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29
The earliest uses of “Black Friday” refer to the heavy traffic on that day, an implicit comparison to the extremely stressful and chaotic experience of Black Tuesday (the 1929 stock-market crash) or other black days. The earliest known references to “Black Friday” (in this sense) are from two newspaper articles from November 29, 1975, that explicitly refer to the day’s hectic nature and heavy traffic. The first reference is in an article entitled “Army vs. Navy: A Dimming Splendor,” in The New York Times:[INDENT]Philadelphia police and bus drivers call it “Black Friday” - that day each year between Thanksgiving Day and the Army-Navy game. It is the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year in the Bicentennial City as the Christmas list is checked off and the Eastern college football season nears conclusion.
The derivation is made even more explicit in an Associated Press article entitled “Folks on Buying Spree Despite Down Economy,” which ran in the Titusville Herald on the same day:Store aisles were jammed. Escalators were nonstop people. It was the first day of the Christmas shopping season and despite the economy, folks here went on a buying spree. . . . . “That’s why the bus drivers and cab drivers call today ‘Black Friday,’” a sales manager at Gimbels said as she watched a traffic cop trying to control a crowd of jaywalkers. “They think in terms of headaches it gives them.”
Both articles have a Philadelphia dateline, suggesting the term may have originated in that area.
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**More recently, a false assumption has been circulated that the term originates from the theory that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday season. **
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somw words just dont sound right in urdu.
i translated it in urdu and it sounded like the name of some punjabi movie ka ghunda..
"kaaaala jumaaaaa"
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well that is what i studied too (in canadian history 
), but i wasn’t in mood of any phada
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black friday is also a bollywood movie based on 1993 bomb blasts
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Is it like Boxing Day?
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Hey thanks Faisal, for someone who lived In Philly for 5 years I shoulda known that :D I thought that was the philly definition and not the national one :)
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candian thanksgiving sucks.
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Is it like Boxing Day?
kinda..although boxing day is after the fact and black friday is before.
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All hail and 
for Boxing day 
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jalatay bhut hain app 
btw i was refering to black friday. i also studied of stock market crash during great depression (30z)