Christmas shopping in America usually begins after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday in June 165438+ October every year. So the next day, that is, the fourth Friday of 165438+ 10, is the first day for Americans to shop. On this day, American shopping malls will launch a large number of discounts and preferential activities for the last large-scale promotion at the end of the year. Because American shopping malls generally use red pens to record deficits and black pens to record profits, this Friday after Thanksgiving has greatly increased the profits of shopping malls, so it is called Black Friday by merchants. Merchants expect to get the biggest profit this year through Christmas shopping that started on this day.

There are many theories about the origin of "Black Friday". One of them is that on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a group of people in the dark lined up at the mall to shop. A common view is that since this day is the first day after Thanksgiving (165438+1the fourth Thursday in October), it is followed by the traditional and grand Christmas in the United States, people usually start Christmas shopping here, and many stores will be crowded with customers, thus earning a lot of income. Traditionally, different colors of ink are used for bookkeeping, with red indicating loss or deficit and black indicating profit. Therefore, this Friday is called Black Friday to show that this day is expected to be profitable. Because store discounts usually start at midnight after Thanksgiving (that is, at 0: 00 on Friday), people who want to buy bargains have to rush to the mall to buy bargains in the dark, which can also be regarded as the origin of "Black Friday". This kind of behavior has a very vivid saying, called Early Bird. 165438+ 10 and 65438+February are the traditional shopping seasons in the United States, and "Black Friday" is the craziest shopping day for Americans in a year. The employees in the store laughed at themselves with the name Black Friday, saying it would be a busy day.