Today I Found Out

Why Black Friday is Called Black Friday (2015x2)

Air date: May 26, 2015

→Subscribe for new videos every day! http://bit.ly/todayifoundoutsubscribe →Why Do Superher’“Black Friday” until the 1960s, and then not popularly called such until the last two decades, retailers have been trying to push people to shop the Friday after Thanksgiving since the late 19th /early 20th century. Around this time, it was very popular for various department stores, such as Macy’s and Eaton’s, to sponsor parades that would occur the day after Thanksgiving. These parades would typically be a major part of Christmas advertising campaigns by these stores. This, in turn, would ultimately result in a lot of people going shopping after the parades were over. Over time, this melded into a commonly accepted unwritten rule among most major department stores to hold off on their major Christmas advertising pushes until after Thanksgiving; specifically, to hold off until after these parades were over. Want the text version? http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2011/11/black-friday-history-myths-and-facts/ Resources/Further Reading: http://www.misconceptionjunction.com/index.php/2010/11/black-friday-is-not-the-biggest-shopping-day-of-the-year/ http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/11/how-the-black-friday-tradition-got-started/ http://www.2wired2tired.com/black-friday-historyhttp://www.2wired2tired.com/black-friday-history http://www.techjournalsouth.com/2011/11/how-big-is-black-friday-for-retailers-infographic/ http://www.hhgregg.com/content2/black_friday_infographic