What day is Black Friday and why are people crazy about Black Friday?

When it comes to Black Friday, people immediately think of two things: "super discount" and chaotic crowds. However, have you ever wondered when Black Friday has been around, and why are people "crazy" because of this "Dark Friday"?

Black Friday, also known as "Dark Friday" is set on the first Friday after Thanksgiving Day (an annual holiday is held mainly in the US and Canada). Because Thanksgiving falls on the 4th Thursday in November, Black Friday will fall on November 23-29.

According to the USA Today daily, the Black Friday day began to be mentioned in 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt - the 32nd US president stood in front of the pressure to turn Thanksgiving from the last 5th day to 5th. 4th in November, with the aim of extending the Christmas shopping season.

"When the shopping season lasts, people will spend more, and the economy is in crisis at that time will receive a necessary boost" - that is the idea of ​​forming the birth of Black. Friday. The change of Thanksgiving was officially recognized in 1941, but the concept of Black Friday did not really stand out until about a decade later.

The chaotic scene is often seen at Black Friday "shopping holidays."

According to another source, the name Black Friday is derived from the city of Philadelphia in the United States. In the 1950s, local police were said to have used the term to describe Friday after Thanksgiving because it was a "particularly difficult" day for them, due to the volume of shoppers. skyrocketing into the city from the suburbs.

According to Wiki, the name Black Friday began to be mentioned a lot after traffic congestion occurred on Friday after Thanksgiving in 1965 in Philadelphia, when hundreds of thousands of Americans crowded in the streets , sidewalk shopping to prepare for Christmas coming. This is considered the start of the Christmas shopping season, similar to Boxing Day in many other countries.

Shopping believers only wait until Black Friday to be able to shop.

In the English term, "In The Black" refers to the status of a profitable business. Contrary to "In The Black " "In The Red" only a loss of business and a loss of trade. In the past, in order to facilitate the differentiation and monitoring of books, accountants often recorded the profits in black ink, the number of holes in red ink. Since then, people named the biggest shopping day of the year as Black Friday, implying that this is the business day of businesses.

On Black Friday, the majority of large retail outlets are open from about 4 am or earlier, with tens of thousands of great discounted items. We are talking about discounts that can be up to 30-40%, or even larger for common items such as electronics, refrigeration, household appliances, furniture, fashion, . Many business owners even allow employees to take time off from work as for a holiday to go shopping.

People are willing to scramble, fight, even . rob their favorite items from others.

It is for this reason that on Black Friday, regardless of the year, people noted hundreds of people jostling, rushing at each other at supermarkets, retail stores to wrest the items with strong discounts. This is the only day of the year recorded that can turn even the most sedate, most gentle shoppers into a ferocious "believer" , ready to rob the items they want to own.

At the end of last year, the number of people buying and jostling and fighting for each other was somewhat reduced, because many people opted to buy goods online to avoid unfortunate scandals. However, because when ordering online has not received the goods, people still mostly rush to supermarkets, shopping centers, . to win the item you like.

Black Friday Vietnam in 2018 falls from 8am on November 23, 2018 to 23:59 on November 23, 2018 .