Panic Friday...

[Stephen]

Think you will find that is nothing to do with black friday as we know it.

The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to shopping on the day after Thanksgiving was made in a public relations newsletter from 1961 that is clear on the negative implications of the name and its origin in Philadelphia.

For downtown merchants throughout the nation, the biggest shopping days normally are the two following Thanksgiving Day. Resulting traffic jams are an irksome problem to the police and, in Philadelphia, it became customary for officers to refer to the post-Thanksgiving days as Black Friday and Black Saturday. Hardly a stimulus for good business

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

It was used by traffic police to refer to the amount of traffic on the roads.

although over the years there are many other uses for the term black friday. Shopping related use only started in 1961.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by truthspeaker

Sad sad sad... Where's the love we once shared?

It's gone nowhere - just some of us find it internally through shared experience, shared humanity and the desire to make the most of the one life we have rather than needing to be dictated to under pain of eternal torment in some other life.

[tweetiepooh]

Noted that on Amazon some "bargains" at 80% off were not 80% off the normal Amazon price but 80% off the "marked price" - RRP or whatever. If the normal Amazon price was already healthy the offer, while still present, was not as great as first appeared.

[rhyds]

In my area of North/Mid Wales "Black Friday" was the last working friday before christmas, whereupon you would find yourself heading towards the pub

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by rhyds

In my area of North/Mid Wales "Black Friday" was the last working friday before christmas, whereupon you would find yourself heading towards the pub

That is traditionally what it means in many parts of the UK, however over the years it has many different meanings. It was also the name of the day the stock markets crashed in the 20s.

It was also used in Scotland to describe a huge brawl in Glasgow in 1919.

The shopping term only started in 1961 as mentioned in my earlier post.

[Russ]

It's the same in real (South ) Wales too, Black Friday is the last Friday before Christmas and Wind Street in Swansea turns in to an alcoholic version of the Muppet Show.