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Grimes on 08 November 2010
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mjk45 said:
Grimes said:
mjk45 said:

why is black friday the big shopping day in the US, here in Australia our black friday equivalent is boxing day  all the big stores usually have some big ticket items below cost to start the frenzy  and fuel is added to it by people spending there  christmas money /gift vouchers and looking for post christmas bargains , so why is NOV26  big


There is a national holiday on the thursday before black friday called thanksgiving.

so did it come about by retailers trying to cash in on thanksgiving or is there some mechanism at work similar to boxing day

Basically, everybody outside of the retail industry gets the long weekend off. That means most of the country has a free day with nothing to do. Since it's a month before christmas, it's the retailers opportunity to open the holiday shopping season.



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