What is Black Friday

This video provides a short history of the busiest shopping day of the year, including how the day came to be known as Black Friday. Teachers, check out our TpT store: Follow us on Facebook: Get the holidays workbook: On the Friday following Thanksgiving, millions of people rush out in hopes of finding good bargains and the best deals. It is a yearly tradition that has become known as Black Friday. Where did this tradition come from Why does it have such an unusual name Christmas shopping was big business for most of the 20th Century, but its only been rather recently that the phenomenon of Black Friday has existed. The trend of launching the Christmas shopping season the day after Thanksgiving was probably started by the Macys Thanksgiving Day Parade. Macys is a large department store in New York City, and they used their yea