Re:The term "Black Friday" (Score 1)

I've noticed this as well. Having been a retail manager for years and done other work in retail, I'll say that me and my workers called it Black Friday for a few reasons. We had to open the store up at some ungodly hour (3-4 hours early), and the sheer amount of people who came in on Friday. I was a manager for one of the countries largest book chains, and as asinine as it sounds, many of our stores did nearly half the yearly business from mid November to late December. Something clicks in a lot of peoples brains that "oh crap, xmas is how many days off, time to shop." My regional manager once told me that as a region we did as much business those 4-6 weeks as we did most of the rest of the year. Judging by my stores daily amounts he wasn't off by much.