Black Friday is a shopping day for a combination of reasons. As the first day after the last major holiday before Christmas, it marks the unofficial beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation of Christmas Day.
A 2018 viral Facebook post made the false claim that the name derives from a day when slave traders sold slaves at a discount. The term actually originates from a 19th century financial crisis.
What's the day after Christmas called for shopping?
Traditionally, Boxing Day has been recognized as a day to give gifts to servants, tradespeople and the poor. Today, the holiday is associated with shopping at "big box" stores that sell things like technology— similar to Black Friday in the United States — and sporting events like horse racing and rugby.
Pre-Christmas sales – typically referred to as 'Boxing Day sales'. These tend to begin just before Christmas, which is handy if you've last-minute shopping to do. January sales – it's very difficult to compare these as they tend to be retailers shifting surplus stock, rather than store-wide discounts.
What is the Saturday before Christmas called in retail?
Super Saturday or Panic Saturday is the last Saturday before Christmas or Christmas Eve, and is a major day of revenue for American retailers, marking the end of the shopping season which begins on Black Friday. Super Saturday targets last-minute shoppers.
Black Friday, Mad Friday, Frantic Friday or Black Eye Friday is a nickname for the Friday before Christmas Eve (24 December)—that is, the Friday after 16 December—in Great Britain.
The carbon cost of Black Friday and Cyber Monday is high. In 2023 it was estimated that 429,000 tonnes of CO2 would be admitted into the atmosphere from product deliveries on Black Friday. This is equivalent to over 4 billion miles driven by an average gasoline-powered car.
In the 1950s and 1960s it's thought that the police in Philadelphia, USA began referring to the day after Thanksgiving as "Black Friday". They dreaded the day due to hectic traffic jams and crowded sidewalks caused by people attending the annual Army-Navy football game.
The term Big Friday was used early in the 1980s, but it failed to catch on. The name Black Friday came next, most likely in reference to the frenzied crowds and terrible traffic often found around malls on that day.
Each year on December 23rd, Festivus commemorates a holiday episode of the television comedy, Seinfeld. In 1997, the popular television comedy brought Festivus to the masses when Frank Costanza (played by Jerry Stiller) explains he invented the holiday in response to the commercialism of Christmas.
A term signifying the holiday season, Noël comes to us from the Latin verb nasci, meaning “to be born.” In the book of Ecclesiastes, the birth of Jesus is called natalis. A variation of this word, nael, made its way into Old French as a reference to the Christmas season and later into Middle English as nowel.
For those households with a large family or with newborns, your preferred shopping day could be Mondays: diapers and laundry powder are usually on special the first day of the week. Other products tend to get a discount on Thursday, but fresh items get the yellow tag on Fridays.
Advent is a season observed in most Christian denominations as a time of waiting and preparation for both the celebration of Jesus's birth at Christmas and the return of Christ at the Second Coming.
What is another name for the night before Christmas?
"A Visit from St. Nicholas," more popularly known as The Night before Christmas, was written in 1823 by Clement C. Moore (1779-1863) and is a staple in many families' holiday traditions.
What is the last working Friday before Christmas called?
Mad Friday is the last Friday before Christmas Day. Typically it is the last working day before the holiday for the vast majority of workers. Because of this it is often the day when many go out for office parties, Christmas meals and bar crawls with work colleagues and friends. So, why is it known as 'Mad' Friday?
In some places, the whole day before is called Christmas Eve. In the late afternoon or evening, in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, among other countries, traditional gift-giving takes place, during which family members give each other presents.
