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Black Friday Reading Skills

Black Friday has marked the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States since 1932. It takes place the day after Thanksgiving and sees major retailers offer big discounts and promotional sales, making it the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, with sales reaching $11.6 billion in 2014. The term "Black Friday" originated in Philadelphia to describe the heavy traffic the day after Thanksgiving as people went into town for sales before the Army-Navy football game, and while not an official holiday, some states give government employees the day off.

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Black Friday Reading Skills

Black Friday has marked the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States since 1932. It takes place the day after Thanksgiving and sees major retailers offer big discounts and promotional sales, making it the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, with sales reaching $11.6 billion in 2014. The term "Black Friday" originated in Philadelphia to describe the heavy traffic the day after Thanksgiving as people went into town for sales before the Army-Navy football game, and while not an official holiday, some states give government employees the day off.

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Ever since 1932, Black Friday has signalled the beginning of the Christmas shopping season

in the United States. This shopping extravaganza follows Thanksgiving, on the fourth
Thursday of November, and comes just before ‘Cyber Monday’.
Use of the name ‘Black Friday’ was first recorded as coming from Philadelphia, where it was
used to describe heavy, disruptive vehicle and pedestrian traffic the day after
Thanksgiving. Apparently, loads of people would go into town on the Friday after Turkey
Day, before the yearly Army/Navy football game on Saturday; stores would take advantage
of all the extra business by promoting big sales.

As ‘Black Friday’ became more popular in the early eighties, one “explanation” for the
event became that this day represented the point in the year when retailers begin to make
a profit, going from being "in the red" (meaning to be in debt) to "in the black" (meaning to
be free of debt).
Black Friday is not an official holiday in the United States, but in some states government
employees are given the day off. Schools and non-retail employees are normally given
Thanksgiving Thursday and Black Friday as public holidays.

Most major retailers offer promotional sales with big discounts, and it has been the busiest
shopping day every year since 2005. In 2014, sales revenues for Black Friday reached a
whopping $11.6 billion, falling slightly to $10.4 in 2015. In 2013, overall spending from
Thanksgiving Thursday up to Cyber Monday topped $56 billion!

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