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2. Black Friday (shopping) - Wikipedia

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   The earliest known use of "Black Friday" to refer to the day after Thanksgiving occurred in the journal, Factory Management and Maintenance, for November 1951, and again in 1952. Here it referred to the practice of workers calling in sick on the day after Thanksgiving, in order to have a four-day weekend.

3. Walmart's Black Friday sale is here: Shop the early deals ...

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   What we used to know as Black Friday — a single day of savings, typically in-store, the day after Thanksgiving — is now practically a full month of sales, predominantly online, launching as ...

4. Black Friday Origin: Why Is It Called 'Black Friday'? - AOL

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   Always the day after Thanksgiving—and always a Friday—the day has become synonymous with doorbuster deals and sales that kick off the holiday shopping season. After all, with the holidays ...

5. What Black Friday's history tells us about holiday shopping ...

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   Multiple post-Thanksgiving sales events keep shoppers enticed after Black Friday, including Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, which the National Retail Federation's online arm designated ...

6. Small Business Saturday - Wikipedia

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   Small Business Saturday is a marketing initiative created and promoted by American Express to encourage holiday shopping on the Saturday after Thanksgiving in the United States, during one of the busiest shopping periods of the year. This Saturday is always the last one in November, so it falls between November 24 and November 30.

7. Cyber Black Friday - Wikipedia

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   Cyber Black Friday is a marketing term for the online version of Black Friday, [1] the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The term made its debut in a 2009 press release entitled "Black Friday Goes Online for Cyber Black Friday". [2]

8. What Black Friday’s history tells us about holiday shopping ...

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   Multiple post-Thanksgiving sales events keep shoppers enticed after Black Friday, including Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, which the National Retail Federation’s online arm designated ...

9. Why is it called Black Friday? Here's the real history behind ...

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   Some explanations of Black Friday claim that the holiday references a 19th-century term for the day after Thanksgiving, during which plantation owners could buy slaves at discount prices.