The big U.S. holiday – Black Friday – is coming up, and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain what it is and discuss how I feel about it.
First, the day isn’t technically a holiday, however, most employees (minus retailers and bankers) get the day off to boost up the number of shoppers on that day.
It falls on the day after American Thanksgiving (the third Thursday in November) and has been a recognizable term since the 1960s.
The day is the traditional beginning of the Christmas shopping season, and stores typically decorate weeks in advance.
Some stores open at 5am just to get a jump on the day, and some bigger retailers including Sears and Best Buy have been known to open at midnight.
My thoughts on this “holiday”? I can’t believe, first of all, that people get the day off work to shop! That’s just crazy to me.
Also, I remember seeing on the news last year cases of a few people who died because they were trampled by the masses of people trying to get into stores. The one I remember clearly was a case at Wal Mart.
This is absurd, uncalled for and ridiculous if you ask me, and for that reason alone I wouldn’t participate in the day.
But, to each their own!
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