Black Friday kicking off! by Lucia Mitrova

Black Friday is here, Christmas holidays are coming soon and crazy Christmas shopping madness is on. By the way for those who don't know why Black Friday, it's because the famous New York Times said so. Heavy traffic, stressed out people, chaos everywhere all this unpleasant things made author of the article published on Novembers 29, 1975 mentioned that people (especially police and bus drivers) call it Black Friday. On Black Friday it is a common and well known thing the Christmas shopping season begins. Retailers opens sooner, prices are lower, people, doorbusters, loss readers, everything is ready. Some malls go even further and are opening at midnight. Sure why should be madness and craziness of early Christmas shopping spree be attached solely to day? Avid shoppers need no sunlight. No wonder media describe this day as the busiest retail shopping day of the year. Although this might not always be true, but Black Friday is able always make it to TOP ten at least. Well in 2003 and 2005 Black Friday won the competition, but in years 2002 and 2004 got only a silver medal. It is because the busiest retail shopping day in USA usually is the Saturday before Christmas. Internet is also a part of the Black Friday mania. You can find there information about the specials. This year's online offers includes Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Best Buy Co Inc, Circuit City Stores Inc,… . "We expect to get around 10 million" visitors to its site on Thanksgiving, said Walmart.com CEO Raul Vazquez.

by Lucia Mitrova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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