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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
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... |
It is called black because it is when the company gets out of the red. Many retail outlets depend on Christmas sales to achieve a profit for the year.
Dale