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Black Friday is(was) a US phenomenon where people go shopping on the day after Thanksgiving, as Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday and most white collar employers give their people Friday off as well.
Over the years, several of the big stores have adapted to offer short run extreme mark-downs on various products to generate traffic.
Stores get stampeded for uber lootz, people generally act like fools, and over the last couple of years it's been migrating so that now stores open on Thursday night instead of Friday morning.
It's not a holiday, it's a steaming pile of commercialism that brings out the absolute worst in people; which is absolutely not what I tell myself when my wife heads out for it after Thanksgiving dinner.
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Thats what I had heard/read about it. I don't remember the pre-Christmas sales being called 'Black Friday' until Amazon introduced the term to the rest of the World about 3 years ago. In the UK we don't have a 'Thanksgiving' pre-chrimbo, as a nation pretty much everything shuts down (unless it DFS!, who the elephant needs a new dining table boxing day?)for two days...
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Yeah, that's an effort to get a Pavlovian response out of US consumers that associate Black Friday with big discounts. And that's all that is.
There are entirely too many people that, when offered a rotary toaster for $20 (retail price $99.95!), will perceive that as value, even if they have a perfectly good toaster and have never even heard of a rotary toaster.
I don't think the US is unique in this regard.
I so hope there's no such thing as a rotary toaster.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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If what I have seen holds, no, not a US thing. I remember sheeple camping(?!) outside of department stores to get a bargin...
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Leave it to us Americans to invent competitive shopping. The things some of these fools do to get a product that they think is 'a good deal'.
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Quote: Leave it to us Americans
I take it you have not seen footage of Boxing Day sales in the UK...
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Is it just as bad as it is here? Every year dozens of people are hospitalized from shopping related injuries.
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Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Why throw away a perfectly good means of making more money? And it's a great way to start the consumerism holiday season!
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I was more interested in Why it was called called a 'Black Friday' sale, that went on for a weeks, I am pretty sure it came from Amazon...
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Ah. It's been called that for as long as I can remember in the US
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: So why are we now celebrating it?
Just an FYI... in the US nobody "celebrates" Black Friday. It's a shopping event pure and simple. Some people do it... most don't.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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glennPattonInThePubAGAIN wrote: So why are we now celebrating it?
Because you're hoping, after Brexit, that we would consider you for statehood.
Unfortunately, as per a previous post[^], we've enough troubles of our own with respect to incorporated third-world territories.
So - for the present - you'll need to limit yourselves to worshipful imitation.
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If it was called "White Friday" we'd never hear the end of it...
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The Donor[^]
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El verdugo [The Executioner] (1963)[^]
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