Crowded Friday. by Zuzana Valkova

Right one day after Thanksgiving is another popular day for Americans. It is called Black Friday. Maybe it doesnt sound very positive, but this is one of the most busiest shoping days in the year. It is called Black friday, because this is the day, when the retailers are no more in loss, they call it be in red, and their incomes go big, so they are in black, it means they are good. There is another theory about this name. It says that Black Friday is called Black, because of the heavy traffic. Everywhere you look, are big crowds of people runnig somewhere, traffic jams and no place where to move. It is beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the US. Shops must be already decorated and prepared for christmas shopping. All the big retail stores have huge sales mostly on electronics and toys. People are agreeable to stand in a line and wait long hours in front of the shop, to buy their desired stuff. Sometimes they even fight, because everyone wants to grab those cheap things. After this, they have to wait in another line to pay for it. But for many people is this still convenient, because some of the products are 50%off. They would never buy these things for this price. Shops usually open early, around 5 in the morning and stay open till late night. They close after the last customer walks out of the shop, with something new under his/her arm. It is not a public holiday, but many empolyees get day off from work to have possibility to shop. Some people are preparing yourself for this, and read webpages of retail stores carefuly, few weeks before Black Friday. Would you go shopping too? Still, there is lots of people who rather stay at home and ignore this day. Or just celebrate Buy nothing day, which is in the same day like Black Friday.

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by Zuzana Valkova for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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