Black friday???

Question

what is black friday is supposed to be a store or something like i really dont know

Answer 1

The expression is for the day after Thanksgiving when retailers go into the "black" (Profitibility) instead of the "red" (losing money).

-a guy named duh

Answer 2

Many retailers open very early (typically 5 A.M.) and offer doorbuster deals and loss leaders to draw people to their stores. Although Black Friday, as the first shopping day after Thanksgiving, has served as the unofficial beginning of the Christmas season at least since the start of the modern Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924, the term "Black Friday" has been traced back only to the 1970s. "Black Friday" was originally so named because of the heavy traffic on that day, although most contemporary uses of the term refer instead to it as the beginning of the period in which retailers are in the black (i.e., turning a profit).

Answer 3

no its the huge sale directly after thanksgiving.  Its kind of turned into black weekend now.  Its where idiots w/ nothing better to do get in line at 10p for a store tha opens at 4a to try to get their hands on sale items.  What they apparently dont realize is the stuff in the ads that are marked at 75% off are in small supply,  drawing in the crazed buyer not wanting to leave empty handed who will thus buy the regularly priced item.  Usually there are a few casualties from being trampled or fighting over x-boxes every year.  its insanity.