Black Friday: Why is It Called so?

• 11.27.2015, 20:04
•  America,  World

Black Friday in the United States and in many other countries of the world… Discounts, discounts and again discounts ...

The last Friday of November, during which high-value electronic equipment and toys are sold with great discounts at many stores, is traditionally called "Black Friday" because in the  past the accounting records used to show the income in black ink and the losses in red one.

Black Friday is celebrated every year with great fights because many citizens suffer from the so-called "Product feverish" on that day.

For example, in the previous years a woman used a tear gas against her shopping "competitors". Another tear gas was used elsewhere by the security officer, who desperately wanted to calm down the excited customers. In different shops throughout the world, hundreds of people were injured. Once a woman decided to apply an electric shock during a hot incident. Another buyer even used his pocket knife during a similar incident. A man once left his baby in a car when parking and went to shop forgetting all about the crying child who was accidentally noticed by a policeman. Meanwhile, a young woman provoked a fight in the babies store spitting on other woman's child. Police arrested her on charges of "raising a handʺ on a child.

By the way, in our capital Yerevan it is also a Black Friday today ... It will begin at 10:00 pm in Yerevan Mall and customers will receive various discounts in shops until late at night.

It should be also noted that Black Friday is every year followed by another well-known and celebrated day called "Thanksgiving,ʺ which is a family holiday for Americans. They gather in their homes that day, prepare roast turkey, pumpkin pie and other tasty traditional dishes, festivities are held in major cities. Americans are participating in charity events.

America's first president, George Washington, who proclaimed independence, offered to celebrate Thanksgiving every year on November 26, to thank God for everything one has…

And since Thanksgiving is also celebrated by our American Armenians, that day the Pan-Armenian fund's annual fundraising is annually organized. Yesterday, by the way, the regular donations collected reached nearly $ 10 million.