Is Black Friday the biggest shopping day of the year?
For scores of Americans, as soon as they digest their Thanksgiving turkey, it’s time to think about holiday shopping. They snatch up newspapers bursting at the seams with circulars and advertisements heralding Black Friday sales. Coined in the 1960s, “Black Friday” refers to the day after Thanksgiving that marks the traditional kickoff to the holiday shopping season [source: Tanenbaum and Tate]. The “black” in Black Friday symbolizes stores turning a profit. These days, some stores don’t even wait for Friday morning. They open their doors Thanksgiving evening or at midnight to give deal-hungry shoppers an early start for the shelves. But not everyone is eager to whip out their wallets while the scent of
