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Originally Posted by Lemurion
Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the US; the biggest sale day of the year; much like Boxing Day in Canada and the UK.
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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Actually, alot of people say that, but its not actually. Usually the Saturday before Christmas is the busyest shopping day... black Friday has the most sales. Although, last year for the first time in the while is was bigger than Saturday before Christmas.
BOb
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thanks for the answers. what an odd name : usually a "black" day has some connotation of cataclysme, like
Black Tuesday... i would not have expected it just to mean "lots of money spent" unless it's a reference to the catastrophic effect of this spending on the individual consumer's pocketbook...