Black Friday

Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping  season. On this day, most major retailers open extremely early and  offer promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar  to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations. 

 Black Friday is not an official holiday, but many non-retail employers  also observe this day as a holiday along with Thanksgiving, giving their  employees the day off, thereby increasing the number of potential  shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year  since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.

The day's name originated in Philadelphia,  where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive  pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after  Thanksgiving.  Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use  outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation began  to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point at which  retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black".

Watch this video below and see how much you can understand ;-)