The biggest shopping day of the year is drawing near, and we want you to be as prepared as possible. So here’s a primer on what’s up and what prices are going down,
Retail’s biggest day will be here before you know it, and we’re preparing for Black Friday by painstakingly researching and reviewing top tech products, tracking prices, and throwing down the best deals. But if you’ve never gone through the whole BF experience, you might have questions about how it works and how to make it work. Well, we’ve got answers.What Is Black Friday?
Widely regarded as the first official day of the holiday shopping season, Black Friday comes on the day after Thanksgiving every November. The Black Friday tradition began in the 1950s, with newspapers using it as a pejorative to describe the traffic from the holiday weekend. It wasn’t long before people started noticing that retail sales were also up that day, and by the 1980s, it was in use across the country, with the «black» now describing the black ink of a positive ledger.
After the dawn of e-commerce, retailers also started using «Cyber Monday» to refer to the first Monday after Thanksgiving, but for the most part, those online sales have shifted over to Black Friday and often continue through the weekend. The tradition has spread to many countries worldwide with little tweaks. In the United Arab Emirates, they call it «Yellow Friday», while in Wales, it’s called «Dydd Gwener y Gwario Gwirion» (Silly Spending Friday).When Is Black Friday 2024?
Black Friday will hit this year on November 29, 2024. It’s unusually late in the month, so the holiday shopping season will be a bit shorter than normal (unless you start shopping early). There is only one Black Friday during the year, but Thanksgiving Day, Black Friday, Thanksgiving Weekend, and Cyber Monday are often referred to in the retail industry as «The Turkey 5», so you’ve got access to at least five days of massive sales going on.
