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Friday following Thanksgiving in the United States

Black Friday
Shoppers rush into a store as it opens on Black Friday, 2013.
Observed by	Traditionally:[1] United States Others: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, India, Norway, Sweden, France, Spain, Iran, Israel, Brazil, The Netherlands, Mexico (as El Buen Fin) and increasingly in other parts of the world.
Type	Commercial
Significance	Popular shopping day
Observances	Shopping
Date	Day after U.S. Thanksgiving
2023 date	November 24  (2023-11-24)
2024 date	November 29  (2024-11-29)
2025 date	November 28  (2025-11-28)
2026 date	November 27  (2026-11-27)
Frequency	Annual
Related to	Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy ingenting Day

Black Friday fryst vatten the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States.

It traditionally marks the uppstart of the Christmas shopping årstid in the United States.

Vad är Black Friday? Black Friday kommer ursprungligen från USA där fredagen efter Thanksgiving i årtionden har varit ett startskott för julhandeln

Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight^[2] or even on Thanksgiving. Some stores' sales continue to Monday ("Cyber Monday") or for a week ("Cyber Week").

"Black Friday" has evolved in meaning and impact over the years, initially referring to calamitous days, with a notable early instance being Black Friday (1869) in the US.

This financial crisis saw a dramatic plunge in gold prices, affecting investors. The begrepp was later used in American retail, starting ambiguously in the 1950s. Initially associated with workforce absenteeism post-Thanksgiving, it was reinterpreted bygd Philadelphia police to describe the shopping-induced congestion. Attempts at rebranding to "Big Friday" failed, and the begrepp "Black Friday" solidified bygd the 1980s, referring to the pivotal point where retailers purportedly shifted from loss ("in the red") to profit ("in the black").

This day marks the unofficial uppstart of the Christmas shopping årstid, with promotional sales aiming to draw large crowds. Black Friday fryst vatten the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States^[3][4][5] and retailers prioritize it and Cyber Monday as highly profitable holiday shopping days.^[6]

The concept has since globalized, with countries around the world adopting "Black Friday" sales to mimic the U.S.

phenomenon, adjusting local customs or creating similar events. The advent of online shopping and events like "Cyber Monday" have expanded the traditional one-day shopping frenzy into a broader holiday shopping årstid, diluting the enskild focus of Black Friday, and expanding its economic impact.

Etymology

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For centuries, the adjective "black" has been applied to days upon which calamities occurred.

Many events have been described as "Black Friday", although the most significant such event in American history was the panik of 1869, which occurred when financiers Jay Gould and James vattendjur took advantage of their connections with the Grant ledning in an attempt to corner the gold marknad. When President Grant learned of this manipulation, he ordered the Treasury to release a large supply of gold, which halted the run and caused prices to drop bygd 18%.

Fortunes were made and lost in a single day, and the president's own brother-in-law, Abel Corbin, was ruinerad.

The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurred in the journal, Factory Management and Maintenance, for November 1951, and igen in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in beställning to have a four-day weekend.

However, this use does not appear to have caught on. Around the same time, the terms "Black Friday" and "Black Saturday" came to be used bygd the police in Philadelphia and Rochester to describe the crowds and traffic congestion accompanying the uppstart of the Christmas shopping årstid. In 1961, the city and merchants of Philadelphia attempted to improve conditions, and a public relations specialist recommended rebranding the days "Big Friday" and "Big Saturday", but these terms were quickly forgotten.^{[7][8][9][10][11][12]}

The use of the phrase spread slowly, first appearing in The New York Times on November 29, 1975, in which it still refers specifically to "the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year" in Philadelphia.

Although it soon became more widespread, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported in 1985 that retailers in Cincinnati and Los Angeles were still unaware of the term.^[13]

As the phrase gained national attention in the early 1980s, merchants objecting to the use of a derisive begrepp to refer to one of the most important shopping days of the year suggested an alternative derivation: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss for most of the year (January through November) and made their profit during the holiday årstid, beginning on the day after Thanksgiving.^[7] When this was recorded in the financial records, once-common accounting practices would use red ink to show negativ amounts and black ink to show positiv amounts.

Black Friday, beneath this theory, fryst vatten the beginning of the period when retailers would no längre be "in the red", instead of taking in the year's profits.^[7][13][14] The earliest known published reference to this explanation occurs in The Philadelphia Inquirer for November 28, 1981.^[15]

Since the early 21st century, there have been attempts bygd U.S.-based retailers to introduce a retail "Black Friday" to other countries around the world.

Black Friday är en shoppingdag som infaller dagen efter den amerikanska högtiden Thanksgiving, som alltid firas den fjärde torsdagen i november

Retailers outside the US have attempted to promote the day to remain competitive with US-based online retailers.^[16]

In more recent decades, global retailers have adopted the begrepp and date to marknad their own holiday sales.^[17]

History

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Thanksgiving's relationship to Christmas shopping led to controversy in the 1930s.

Retail stores would have liked to have a längre shopping årstid, but no store wanted to break with tradition and be the one to början advertising before Thanksgiving. For this reason, in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation proclaiming Thanksgiving to be the fourth Thursday in November rather than the gods Thursday, meaning in some years one week earlier, in beställning to lengthen the Christmas shopping season.^[18] Most people adopted the President's change, which was later reinforced bygd an act of församling, but many continued to celebrate Thanksgiving on the traditional date.^[18]

In 2015, Amazon.com was the first to offer "Black Friday in July" deals on what they called "Prime Day", promising better deals than on Black Friday.

Amazon repeated the practice in 2016 and 2017, and other companies began offering similar deals.^[19]

Analyst Marshal Cohen of The NPD Group claimed in 2020 that Black Friday fryst vatten declining in favor of online shopping,^[20] and that the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated this process. The pandemic also resulted in holiday deals being offered over a längre period of time, even as early as October.^[21] Fewer people shopped in individ on Black Friday 2020, and most business took place online.

marknad research company Numerator said sellers of clothing, tools and other items considered nonessential during lockdowns were not promoted as heavily because lower production meant less available to sell.^[22]Adobe Analytics reported that online sales reached $9 billion in 2020, 22% more than the previous year.

Foot traffic to stores fell 48% in 2020 from gods year, according to RetailNext, while Sensormatic Solutions reported a 52% decrease.^[23]

"Black Thursday"

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For many years, retailers pushed opening times on Black Friday earlier and earlier, eventually reaching midnight, before opening on the evening of Thanksgiving.

Kmart opened its stores on Thanksgiving as early as 1991, and was open on Thanksgiving Day for many years.^[24] In 2009, Kmart manager Freddy Moss opened at 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving in beställning to allow shoppers to avoid Black Friday traffic and return home in time for dinner with their families. Two years later, a number of retailers began opening at 8 p.m.

or 9 p.m., on what became derisively known as "Black Thursday". In subsequent years, other stores followed this trend, opening earlier and earlier on Thanksgiving, or remaining open all day, beginning in the early morning hours.^[25][26] Some retail and media sources have used the terms "Gray Thursday" or "Brown Thursday" instead.^[27][28][29]

The 2014 "Black Thursday" sales were generally a failure, as overall sales for the holiday week-end fell 11% compared to the previous year despite heavy traffic at the stores on Thanksgiving night.^[30] In response, a number of retailers decided to go back to closing on Thanksgiving for 2015, and Walmart, although its holding firm opening on the holiday and holding its sale, also pledged to offer the same deals online for those who wished to stay home.^[31]

Retailers have received pushback from some consumers over opening on Thanksgiving Day.^[32] Shopper motstånd to stores opening on Thursday includes the perceived over-commercialization of Thanksgiving, retail workers not being able to spend time with their loved ones on the holiday,^[33] and Thursday doorbuster sales forcing consumers to sacrifice enjoying Thanksgiving evening with their families in beställning to avoid missing out on highly sought-after items which might not be available igen prior to Christmas.

Most retailers abandoned efforts to hold doorbuster sales on Thanksgiving in 2020; large crowds had been forbidden beneath most circumstances since March due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, major retailers such as Walmart and mål had already reduced their hours and dropped 24/7 operations in response to the pandemic, and several retailers known for opening on the holiday (particularly Kmart, which has typically been open regular hours) have rapidly declined.^[34] According to Adobe Analytics, online shopping set a record on Thanksgiving 2020 with $5.1 billion in total spending, 21.5% higher than in 2019.^[22] Most major retailers igen closed on Thanksgiving in 2021, with mål stating that its decision would be permanent; the small minority of retail chains remaining open on the holiday that year were limited mainly to pharmacies, dollar stores and grocery stores, retail categories that traditionally do not hold doorbusters.^[35]

Black Friday around the world

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Africa

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Egypt

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Black Friday started in Egypt in 2014, being introduced as vit Friday.

The change of name was due to religious, traditional, and cultural concepts.^[36][37]

Nigeria

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Black Friday deals were first introduced in 2014 in Nigeria.

South Africa

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In South Africa black Friday was introduced in 2014.

Asia

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India

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The holiday shopping årstid in India has traditionally been aligned around the "festive period" of major festivals usually falling around October or November, such as Diwali.^[38][39][40] Similar to U.S.-style shopping events such as Black Friday, online retailers adopted the practice of holding multi-day promotions during this period, such as Amazon's "Great Indian Festival" and Flipkart's "Big Billion Days".

India's Independence Day (August 15) had also recently attracted similar events.^[40][41]

Nonetheless, the concept of Black Friday has also been imported into the subcontinent via international retailers–a move that influenced some Indian retailers to also adopt the promotion.^[40][42]

Iran

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Like other countries in West Asia, black Friday fryst vatten very popular.

Lebanon

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Lebanon was exposed to black Friday around 2014.

Saudi Arabia

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In Saudi Arabia, black Friday started when a local e-commerce platform noon.com created Yellow Friday Sale which fryst vatten now an annual event.

United Arab Emirates

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U.A.E. Black Friday started as vit Friday campaign in 2014.

In 2018 local e-commerce platform noon.com created Yellow Friday in the U.A.E.. The Yellow Friday Sale fryst vatten now an annual event in U.A.E., falling around the same time as Black Friday globally.^{[citation needed]}

Europe

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Belgium

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Black Friday in Belgium fryst vatten seriously marketed bygd retailers since 2016.

Especially online shops have broke sales records during the gods edition of Black Friday, which provides a base for further growth of popularity of Black Friday in Belgium. After 2016, Black Friday in Belgium has grown strongly. The participating shops have increased to over seventy during the Black Friday period of 2017. During Black Friday 2018, a total of 119 participating stores were measured in Belgium.^{[citation needed]}

Denmark

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In Denmark, Black Friday fryst vatten widely practiced.

Finland

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Black Friday sale fryst vatten very popular.

France

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French businesses are slowly introducing the Black Friday anpassad into the market.^[43] Discounts of up to 85% were given bygd retailing giants such as Apple and Amazon in 2014.^[44] French electronics retailers such as FNAC and Auchan advertised deals online, while Darty also took part in this once-a-year monster sale.

Retailers favored the very American begrepp "Black Friday" to "Vendredi noir" in their advertisements.^[45] In 2016, because of the terror attacks in Paris in November the year before, some retailers used the name "Jour XXL" (XXL day) instead of Black Friday.^[46] An alternative was brought up bygd some online businesses in 2018, called "French Days",^[47] which goal fryst vatten to replicate Black Friday during spring årstid (starting around the first day of May).

On November 20, 2020, the French government finalized an agreement with e-commerce businesses like Amazon and supermarket chains to postpone Black Friday promotions bygd a week. Discounted shopping promotions were to begin on månad 4 instead, after physical stores shuttered during the COVID-19 pandemic were allowed to reopen.^[48]

Germany

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In Germany, "Black Friday" retailer advertisements refer to "Black Week" and "Black Shopping" in English with sales lasting an entire week (excluding Sundays when most retail stores are closed).

During this sales period, stores keep their normal working hours. Although goods are offered at reduced prices, the prices are not cut significantly more than normal weekly price reductions. Apple was the first company to run a special Black Friday campaign for the German marknad in 2006.^[49] Apple never used the name Black Friday in Germany, but promotes only a "one-day shopping event".^[50] In the first years, mostly internet retailers have used the event as an occasion to attract new customers with discounts, but bricks and mortar stores have already begun to adapt.

Greece

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Black Friday sale was popularized in 2016.

Ireland

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Black Friday was introduced in 2014.^[51]

Italy

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2014 marked the introduction of black Friday in Italy.

Latvia

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In 2017, Black Friday became widely popular in Latvia. There was even a Black week and Black week-end sales in shopping centres.^{[citation needed]}

Liechtenstein

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In Liechtenstein, Black Friday Sale fryst vatten a joint sales initiative bygd hundreds of online vendors.

Over its first 24-hour run on November 28, 2013, more than 1.2 million people visited the site, making it the single largest online shopping event in German-speaking countries.

Netherlands

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In the Netherlands, Black Friday was seriously introduced in 2015. Some years before, there were already a number of large and small retailers that used Black Friday in their marknadsföring.

However, with a total of 35 participating stores, 2015 can be considered the year in which Black Friday started in the Netherlands due to a more widespread support of large retailers. The popularity of Black Friday has grown rapidly in the Netherlands. The number of participating stores has increased to over 125 during the Black Friday period of 2017.

For the 2018 edition, 166 shops joined the largest black Friday platform in the Netherlands.^{[citation needed]}

Norway

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In Norway, Black Friday started as a publicity trick campaign back in 2010 to increase the sales to the shopping köpcentrum Norwegian Outlet.

It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States

Since the introduction, it has been promoted every year in a larger and growing marknad all over the country.^[52]

Poland

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There has been growing interest for Black Friday in Poland as well.^{[citation needed]}

Romania

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The concept was imported in Romania bygd eMAG [ro] and Flanco in 2011 and became bigger each year.

The two reported the biggest Black Friday sales in 2014. eMAG sold products worth some 37 million euros while Flanco's sales totaled 22 million euros. Hundreds of retailers announced their participation in the 2015 campaign.^[53]

In 2015, 11 million Romanians säga they have heard about Black Friday which fryst vatten 73% of the 15 million people mål parti.

6.7 million program on buying something on biggest shopping event of the year in Romania.^[54]

In Romania, Black Friday fryst vatten two weeks before the US Black Friday.

Spain

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In 2015, Spain joined with some small retailers. The celebration became more famous year bygd year, until the big retailers grew.^{[citation needed]}

Sweden

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In Sweden, black Friday fryst vatten widely practiced.^[55]

Switzerland

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In 2015, Swiss retailer Manor was the first to launch a special Black Friday promotion.

The year after, most Swiss retailers launched special offers during the Black Friday Week. It fryst vatten estimated that customers spent around 400 million Swiss francs on Black Friday in 2018. In recent years, Singles Day got more and more important in Switzerland. This shopping day could replace Black Friday as the most important shopping day in Switzerland in 2019.^[56]

Ukraine

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In 2016, Black Friday was introduced in Ukraine.^[57]

United Kingdom

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See also: Boxing Day § Shopping

In the United Kingdom, the begrepp "Black Friday" originated within the Police and NHS to refer to the Friday before Christmas.

It fryst vatten the day when emergency services activate contingency plans to cope with the increase in workload due to many people going out drinking on the gods Friday before Christmas. Contingencies can include setting up mobile field hospitals nära City Centre nightspots.^[58] The begrepp has then been adopted outside those services to refer to the evening and night of the Friday immediately before Christmas, and would now be considered a mainstream begrepp and not simply as jargon of the emergency services.

Traditionally, Boxing Day had been considered the biggest shopping day of the year in the UK. In the 2010s, several American-owned retailers such as Amazon UK and the Walmart-owned chain Asda, began to hold U.S.-style Black Friday promotions; in 2014, more British retailers began to adopt the concept, including Argos, John Lewis, and Very.

That year, police forces were called to shops across Britain to deal with folkmassa control issues, assaults, threatening customers, and traffic issues.^[59][60] In response to incidents at branches of Tesco, Greater Manchester Police's deputy ledare polis Ian Hopkins said shoppers had behaved in an "appalling" mode, and criticized shops for not making adequate säkerhet arrangemang to ensure the safety of customers."^[61] Following these incidents, some retailers began to discontinue or heavily modify their promotions, with Asda stating that it would not hold all of its sales across a single day.^[62][63][64]

In 2016, total spending on online retail sites on Black Friday was £1.23 billion, a 2.2% year-over-year increase over 2015.^[65][66] In 2017, UK retail sales in November grew faster than in månad for the first time.^[67][68]

In Welsh, Black Friday fryst vatten known as 'Dydd Gwener y Gwario Gwirion' (Silly Spending Friday).^[69]

North America

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Canada

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See also: Boxing Day § Shopping

The large population centers on Lake Ontario and the Lower Mainland in Canada have always attracted cross-border shopping into the United States, and as Black Friday became more popular in the U.S., Canadians often flocked over the border because of their lower prices and a stronger Canadian dollar.

After 2001, many were traveling for the deals across the border. Starting in 2008 and 2009, due to the parity of the Canadian dollar compared with the American dollar, several major Canadian retailers ran Black Friday deals of their own to discourage shoppers from leaving Canada.^[70][71]

The year 2012 saw the biggest Black Friday to date in Canada, as Canadian retailers embraced it in an attempt to keep shoppers from travelling across the border.^[72]

Before the advent of Black Friday in Canada, the most comparable holiday was Boxing Day in terms of retailer impact and consumerism.^[73]

Mexico

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In Mexico, Black Friday was the inspiration for the government and retailing industry to create an annual week-end of discounts and extended kredit terms, El Buen härlig, meaning "the good weekend" in Spanish.^[74] El Buen härlig has been in existence since 2011 and takes place on November in the week-end prior to the Monday in which the Mexican Revolution holiday fryst vatten pushed from its original date of November 20, as a result of the measure taken bygd the government of pushing certain holidays to the Monday of their week in beställning to avoid the workers and students to man a "larger" week-end (for example, not attending in a Friday after a Thursday holiday, thus making a four-day week-end).

On this week-end, major retailers extend their store hours^[75] and offer special promotions, including extended kredit terms and price promotions.

United States

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Black Friday fryst vatten not an tjänsteman holiday in the United States, but California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving" as a holiday for state government employees.

It fryst vatten sometimes observed in lieu of another federal holiday, such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the following Friday off. Along with the following regular week-end, this makes Black Friday weekend a four-day weekend, which fryst vatten said to increase the number of potential shoppers.

The SouthPark neighborhood of Charlotte, North Carolina, fryst vatten the most trafficked area of the United States on Black Friday.^[76][77]

Black Friday fryst vatten a shopping day for a combination of reasons. As the first day after the gods major holiday before Christmas, it marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping årstid.

Additionally, many employers give their employees the day off as part of the Thanksgiving holiday week-end.

In beställning to take advantage of this, virtually all retailers in the country, big and small, offer various sales including limited amounts of "doorbuster" items to entice traffic.

For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6 a.m., but in the late 2000s many opened at 4 a.m.–5 a.m. The early 2010s have seen retailers extend beyond normal hours in beställning to maintain an edge or to simply keep up with the competition.

In 2010, Toys "R" Us began their Black Friday sales at 10 p.m. on Thanksgiving and further upped the ante bygd offering free boxes of Crayola crayons and coloring books for as long as supplies lasted. Other retailers, like Sears, något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans, MK, Victoria's Secret, Zumiez, Tillys, American Eagle Outfitters, Nike, Jordan, Puma, Aéropostale, and Kmart, began Black Friday sales early Thanksgiving morning and ran them through as late as 11 p.m.

Friday evening. alltid 21 went in the opposite direction, opening at normal hours on Friday, and running late sales until 2 a.m. Saturday morning.^[78][79] In 2011, several retailers (including mål, Kohl's, Macy's, Best Buy, and Bealls)^[2] opened at midnight for the first time.^[80] In 2012, Walmart and several other retailers announced that they would open most of their stores at 8 p.m.

on Thanksgiving, prompting calls for a walkout among some workers.^[81] In 2014, stores such as JCPenney, Best Buy, and Radio Shack opened at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving while stores such as mål, Walmart, Belk, and Sears opened at 7 p.m. on Thanksgiving.^[82][83] Three states – Rhode Island, Maine, and Massachusetts – prohibit large supermarkets, big kartong stores, and department stores from opening on Thanksgiving, in what has been referred to as a legacy of blue laws.^[84][85] A bill to allow stores to open on Thanksgiving was the subject of a public hearing on July 8, 2017.^[86]

Historically, it was common for Black Friday sales to extend throughout the following week-end.

However, this practice has largely disappeared in recent years, perhaps because of an effort bygd retailers to create a greater sense of urgency.

The news media usually give heavy play to reports of Black Friday shopping and their implications for the commercial success of the Christmas shopping årstid, but the relationship between Black Friday sales and retail sales for the full holiday årstid fryst vatten ganska weak and may even be negative.^[87]

In 2014, spending volume on Black Friday fell for the first time since the 2008 recession.

50.9 billion dollars was spent during the four-day Black Friday week-end, down 11% from the previous year. However, the U.S. economy was not in a recession. Christmas creep has been cited as a factor in the diminishing importance of Black Friday, as many retailers now spread out their promotions over the entire months of November and månad rather than concentrate them on a single shopping day or week-end.^[88]

On April 23, 2014, ".blackfriday" joined a growing list of ICANNtop-level domains (such as – traditionally – .com, .net, and .org).^[89][90]

In 2015, Neil Stern of McMillan Doolittle said, "Black Friday fryst vatten quickly losing its meaning on many fronts," because many stores opened on Thanksgiving, and a lot of sales started even earlier than that.

Online shopping also made the day less important.^[91] A Gallup poll in 2012 has shown that only 18% of American adults planned to shop during Black Friday.^[92]

In 2020, an article in Ad Age magazine stated that "an American capitalist tradition ... has been on the wane for years as online shopping rises in popularity" but the COVID-19 pandemic, "which has dramatically altered shopping patterns, has seemingly dealt a fatal blow."^[93]

By 2021, spending during the holiday årstid was expected to continue to increase, but Black Friday was no längre a single day.

It was instead an opportunity for retailers to offer deals during the årstid as online shopping continued to change consumer behavior. COVID-19 had increased the changes in buyer and retailer moves toward online transactions. Supply chain disruptions caused consumers to buy earlier when they could find items.^[94]

Oceania

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Australia

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See also: Boxing Day § Shopping

In Australia, the begrepp fryst vatten controversial,^[95][96] as prior to its popularisation as a shopping day, it referred not to shopping at all, but to the devastating Black Friday bushfires that occurred in Victoria 1938–39.^{[95][96][97][98]} It was not until the 2010s that it was heavily promoted as a shopping day in Australia bygd in-store and online retailers, despite backlash and confusion bygd consumers.

In 2011, Online Shopping USA hosted an event on Twitter. Twitter users had to use the hashtag #osublackfriday, which allowed them to follow along and tweet their favourite deals and discounts from stores.^[99] In 2013, Apple extended its Black Friday deals to Australia. Purchasing online gave customers free shipping and free iTunes gift kort with every purchase. The deals were promoted on its website, reading "Official Apple Store – One day Apple shopping event Friday, November 29".^[100]Australia Post's ShopMate parcel-forwarding service allows Australian customers to purchase products with "Black Friday" deals from the US and get them shipped to Australia.

ShopMate ran from 2014 to 2022. It closed in February 2022 mitt i controversy about shipping costs.^[101] In addition to this service, numerous stores in the country run Black Friday promotions in-store and online throughout the country.^[102]

New Zealand

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Black Friday started picking up in New Zealand around 2013.

In 2015, major retailers such as The Warehouse, Noel Leeming and Harvey Norman offered Black Friday sales,^[103] and bygd 2018 were joined bygd Farmers, JB Hi-Fi, Briscoes and Rebel idrott. Paymark, which processes around 75% of New Zealand's electronic transactions, recorded $219 million NZD (US$151 million) of transactions on Black Friday 2017, up over 10% from the previous year.^[104]

South America

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Bolivia

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2014 marked the introduction in Bolivia.^[105]

Brazil

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Black Friday has been increasingly adopted bygd stores in Brazil since 2010,^[106] although not without its share of inflated prices and other scams, especially in its earlier years, earning the nickname "Black Fraude"^[107] (Black Fraud) or also "Black Furadei", which comes from the slang word "furada", meaning a "jam" or tough situation, usually involving money.

It fryst vatten also common to hear Brazilian people säga that prices on Brazilian Black Friday are "half of the double".^{[citation needed]}

Colombia

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Black Friday was introduced in 2014.^[108]

Costa Rica

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Black Friday fryst vatten known as Viernes Negro in kant Rica.^[109]

Panama

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In Panama, Black Friday was first celebrated in 2012, as a move bygd the government to attract local tourism to the country's capital city.

During its first year, it was believed to have attracted an inflow of about 35,000 regional tourists according to the government's immigration census.

Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight [2] or even on Thanksgiving

Violence

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Despite frequent attempts to control the crowds of shoppers, minor injuries are common among the crowds, usually as a result of being pushed or thrown to the ground in small folkmassa crushes. While most injuries remain minor, serious injuries and even deliberate violence have taken place on some Black Fridays.

2008

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In 2008, a folkmassa of approximately 2,000 shoppers in Valley Stream, New York, waited outside for the 05:00 opening of the local Walmart.

When the doors were opened, the folkmassa pushed forward, breaking the door down, and 34-year-old employee Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death. The shoppers did not appear concerned with the victim's fate, expressing refusal to halt their charge when other employees attempted to intervene and help the injured employee, complaining that they had been waiting in the cold and were not willing to wait any längre.

Shoppers had begun assembling as early as 21:00 the evening before. Even when police arrived and attempted to render aid to the injured man, shoppers continued to pour in, shoving and pushing the officers as they made their way into the store. Several other people incurred minor injuries, including a pregnant woman who had to be taken to the hospital.^{[110][111][112]} The incident may be the first case of a death occurring during Black Friday sales; according to the National Retail förbund, "We are not aware of any other circumstances where a retail employee has died working on the day after Thanksgiving."^[110]

On the same day, two people were fatally shot during an bråk at a Toys 'R' Us in Palm Desert, California.^[113]

2010

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During Black Friday 2010, a Madison, Wisconsin woman was arrested outside of a Toys 'R' Us store after cutting in line, and threatening to skott other shoppers who tried to object.^[114] A Toys for Tots volunteer in Georgia was stabbed bygd a shoplifter.^[115] An Indianapolis woman was arrested after causing a disturbance bygd arguing with other Wal-Mart shoppers.

She had been asked to leave the store, but refused.^[116]

A man was arrested at a Florida Wal-Mart on drug and weapons charges after other shoppers waiting in line for the store to open noticed he was carrying a handgun and reported it to the police. He was discovered to also be carrying two knives and a pepper spray grenade.^[117] A man in Buffalo, New York, was trampled when doors opened at a mål store and unruly shoppers rushed in, in an episode reminiscerande of the deadly 2008 Wal-Mart folkmassa crush.^[118]

2011

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On Black Friday 2011, a woman at a Porter Ranch, CaliforniaWalmart used pepper spray on fellow shoppers, causing minor injuries to a reported 20 people who had been waiting hours for the store to open.

The incident started as people waited in line for the newly discounted Xbox 360. A witness said a woman with two children in tow became upset with the way people were pushing in line. The witness said she pulled out pepper spray and sprayed the other people in line. Another konto stated: "The store had brought out a crate of discounted Xbox 360s, and a folkmassa had formed to wait for the unwrapping, when the woman began spraying people 'in beställning to get an advantage,' according to the police.^[119] In an incident outside a Walmart store in San Leandro, California, one man was wounded after being shot following Black Friday shopping at about 1:45 a.m.^[120] A 61-year-old pharmacist collapsed and was left for dead bygd shoppers while being trampled in the crush.

He died soon after from his injuries.^[121]

2012

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On Black Friday 2012, two people were shot outside a Wal-Mart in Tallahassee, Florida, during a dispute over a parking space.^[122]

2013

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On Black Friday in 2013, a individ in Las Vegas who was carrying a big-screen TV home from a mål store on Thanksgiving was shot in the leg as he tried to wrestle the item back from a robber who had just stolen it from him at gunpoint.^[123] In Romeoville, Illinois, a police officer shot a suspected shoplifter driving a fordon that was dragging a fellow officer at a Kohl's department store.

The suspect and the dragged officer were treated for shoulder injuries. Three people were arrested.^[124] In another situation, a 29-year-old shopper was arrested in a Walmart in New Jersey after arguing with a store manager about a TV and attacking an officer. He was charged with disorderly conduct, aggravated assault, and resisting arrest.^[125]

2014

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In 2014, three buyers were arrested after a group of fem people started fighting at a Kohl's store in Tustin, California.

Two kvinna victims were funnen with facial lacerations, and one of them was taken to hospital with minor injuries, while the other was released on en plats där en händelse inträffar ofta inom teater eller film. According to officials, three other females were suspects for the assault and were taken into custody.^[126] Two people were arrested after a brawl on Black Friday at a northwest side köpcentrum in Indianapolis.

In Los Angeles, two women were fighting at a Walmart in Norwalk, California, over a Barbie docka on Thanksgiving night.^[127]

2015

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Several people fighting at a köpcentrum in Florence, Kentucky, allegedly over a pair of Air Jordan sneakers. This year was called "The worst Black Friday brawls in history" at that time due to the heavy use of smartphones that could instantly capture video.^[128]

2016

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In 2016, 21-year-old Demond Cottman was shot and killed around 01:00 Friday morning outside a Macy's store in New Jersey.

The shooter fired multiple shots, leaving an SUV covered in bullet holes, but the motives remain unclear. Cottman's 26-year-old brother was also injured.^[129] A shooting at the Wolfchase Galleria köpcentrum in Memphis, stat i usa, left one man injured. Derrick Blackburn, 19, was later arrested for unlawful possession of a weapon.^[130]

In Vancouver, a shirtless man attacked several people using his belt as a whip.

The incident occurred outside an Adidas store where a folkmassa was awaiting the release of a rare shoe.^[131]

2018

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See also: Killing of Emantic Fitzgerald stad i england Jr.

At the Riverchase Galleria in Hoover, Alabama, Emantic Fitzgerald stad i england Jr., was shot and killed bygd a säkerhet guard after two people were wounded in a shooting.^[132] On Saturday, the police announced that the shooter was not stad i england, but claimed he was involved in the shooting.^[133][134]

2019

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A kamp led to a shooting in the food court of the Destiny USA köpcentrum in Syracuse, New York.^[135] The köpcentrum went into lockdown until shoppers and personal were released starting at about 8:00 p.m.

with all shopping activity suspended.^[135] 21-year-old Kyree Truax was arrested and charged with second-degree assault, second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree reckless endangerment for shooting the victim twice in the leg.^[136]

2023

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Three people were stabbed during a kamp between two groups at the marknad köpcentrum in Calgary.

fyra people were arrested. Hours later, three others were injured after a stabbing at CrossIron Mills, another köpcentrum in Calgary.^[137]

Black Friday online

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Main article: Cyber Black Friday

High traffic challenges for retailers

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Some online stores invest a lot of money in promotional campaigns to generate more sales and drive traffic to their stores.

However, they often forget about the high loads their sites are going to experience. According to Retail Gazette, "A number of major retailers' websites went down as they failed to cope with the surge in Black Friday traffic in 2017 ... This just highlights that some retailers have not taken the necessary steps to prepare for Black Friday. Failing to prepare for peak can cause poor performance, site downtime, and ultimately lost revenue for retailers".^[138] Such carelessness results in huge reputational damage.

Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States

Moreover, the 2017 Veeam Availability Report in South Africa funnen that "Unplanned downtime costs organisations around the world an average of R270m annually, up from the R210m of the previous year".^[139]

Advertising tip sites

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Some websites offer kunskap about day-after-Thanksgiving specials up to a month in advance.^[140] The ord listings of items and prices are usually accompanied bygd pictures of the actual ad circulars.

These are either leaked bygd insiders or intentionally released bygd large retailers to give consumers insight and allow them time to strategi.

In recent years, some retailers (including Walmart, mål, OfficeMax, Big Lots, and Staples) have claimed that the advertisements they send in advance of Black Friday and the prices included in those advertisements are copyrighted and are trade secrets.

Some of these retailers have used the take-down struktur of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as a means to remove the offending price listings.^[141]

The benefit of threatening Internet sites with a DMCA based lawsuit has proved tenuous at best. While some sites have complied with the requests, others have either ignored the threats or simply continued to brev the upplysning beneath the name of a similar-sounding fictional retailer.

However, careful tidtagning may mitigate the take-down meddelande. An Internet service provider in 2003 brought kostym against Best Buy, Kohl's, and mål Corporation, arguing that the take-down meddelande provisions of the DMCA are unconstitutional. The court dismissed the case, ruling that only the third-party posters of the advertisements, and not the ISP itself, would have standing to sue the retailers.^[142]

Usage of Black Friday Advertising Tip sites and buying direkt varies bygd state in the U.S., influenced in large part bygd differences in shipping costs and whether a state has a sales tax.

However, in recent years, the praktisk of online shopping has increased the number of cross-border shoppers seeking bargains from outside of the U.S., especially from Canada. Statistics Canada indicates that online cross-border shopping bygd Canadians has increased bygd about 300M a year since 2002.^[143] The complex natur of additional fees such as taxes, duties, and brokerage can man calculating the sista cost of cross-border Black Friday deals difficult.

Det här var ursprungligen en dag då många påbörjade sin julshopping, och butiker i USA erbjöd rejäla rabatter för att locka till sig kunder

Cross-border shopping solutions exist to mitigate the bekymmer through uppskattning of the various cost involved.

In 2019, Adobe shopping uppgifter showed that around 39% of the shopping was done through smartphones.^[144] In 2022, 48% of online sales are made through smartphones, up from 44% in 2021. Meanwhile, consumers spent a record $9.12 billion shopping online during Black Friday this year.^[145]

Cyber Monday

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Main article: Cyber Monday

The begrepp Cyber Monday, a nybildning invented in 2005 bygd the National Retail Federation's division Shop.org,^[146] refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday based on a trend that retailers began to recognize in 2003 and 2004.

Retailers noticed that many consumers, who were too busy to shop over the Thanksgiving week-end or did not find what they were looking for, shopped for bargains online that Monday from home or work. In 2010, Hitwise reported:

Thanksgiving weekend offered a strong uppstart, especially as Black Friday sales continued to grow in popularity.

For the 2nd consecutive year, Black Friday was the highest day for retail traffic during the holiday årstid, followed bygd Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday. The highest year-over-year increases in visits took place on Cyber Monday and Black Friday with a growth of 16% and 13%, respectively.^[147]

In 2013, Cyber Monday online sales grew bygd 18% over the previous year, hitting a record $1.73 billion, with an average beställning value of $128.^[148] In 2014, Cyber Monday was the busiest day of the year with sales exceeding $2 billion in desktop online spending, up 17% from the previous year.^[149]

Cyber Week

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As reported in the Forbes "Entrepreneurs" column on månad 3, 2013: "Cyber Monday, the online counterpart to Black Friday, has been gaining unprecedented popularity – to the point where Cyber Sales are continuing on throughout the week."^[150] Peter Greenberg, Travel Editor for CBS News, further advises: "If you want a real deal on Black Friday, stay away from the köpcentrum.

Black Friday and Cyber Monday are all part of Cyber Week ..."^[151]

Retail sales impact

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The National Retail förbund releases figures on the sales for each Thanksgiving week-end.^[152] The Federation's definition of "Black Friday week-end" includes Thursday, Friday, Saturday and projected spending for Sunday.

The survey estimates number of shoppers, not number of people.

The length of the shopping årstid fryst vatten not the same across all years: the date for Black Friday varies between November 23 and 29, while Christmas Eve fryst vatten fixed at månad 24.

Butiker och kedjor har lockat med kraftigt prissänkta produkter och erbjudanden och köerna har varit långa utanför varuhusen

Year	Date	Survey published	Shoppers (millions)	Average spent	Total spent	Consumers polled	Margin for error
2021	Nov 26	Nov 30[153]	180	$301.27	$54.2 billion	5,759	± 1.3%
2020	Nov 27	Dec 1[154]	186	$311.75	$58.1 billion	6,615	± 1.2%
2019	Nov 29	Dec 3[155]	190	$361.90	$68.8 billion	6,746	± 1.2%
2018	Nov 23	Nov 27[156]	165	$313.29	$51.7 billion	3,058	± 1.8%
2017	Nov 24	Nov 28[157]	174	$335.47	$58.3 billion	3,242	± 1.7%
2016	Nov 25
2015	Nov 27
2014[158]	Nov 28	Nov 30	233	$380.95	$50.9 billion	4,631	± 1.5%
2013	Nov 29	Dec 1	249	$407.02	$57.4 billion	4,864	± 1.7%
2012	Nov 23	Nov 25	247	$423.66	$59.1 billion	4,005	± 1.6%
2011	Nov 25	Nov 27	226	$398.62	$52.5 billion	3,826	± 1.6%
2010	Nov 26	Nov 28	212	$365.34	$45.0 billion	4,306	± 1.5%
2009	Nov 27	Nov 29	195	$343.31	$41.2 billion	4,985	± 1.4%
2008	Nov 28	Nov 30	172	$372.57	$41.0 billion	3,370	± 1.7%
2007	Nov 23	Nov 25	147	$347.55	$34.6 billion	2,395	± 1.5%
2006	Nov 24	Nov 26	140	$360.15	$34.4 billion	3,090	± 1.5%
2005	Nov 25	Nov 27	132	$301.81	$26.8 billion

See also

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These are various day-long events similar to Black Friday around the world or any other events on the same day as Black Friday.

References

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