What does North American Black Five mean?

1, Black Friday generally refers to Black Friday (Christmas promotion in American shopping malls).

Christmas shopping in America usually begins after Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving Day is the fourth Thursday of June 165438+ 10 every year, so its second day is also the first day for Americans to shop. On this day, American shopping malls will launch a large number of discounts and preferential activities for the last large-scale promotion at the end of the year.

2.2017165438+1In the early morning of October 24th, the local Italian trade union organization said that employees of Amazon Italy Branch were planning to go on strike on "Black Friday" to show their protest.

There are many theories about the origin of "Black Friday". One of them is that on the Friday after Thanksgiving, a group of people in the dark lined up at the mall to shop. A common view is that since this day is the first day after Thanksgiving (165438+1the fourth Thursday in October), it is followed by the traditional and grand Christmas in the United States, people usually start Christmas shopping here, and many stores will be crowded with customers, thus earning a lot of income.

Traditionally, different colors of ink are used for bookkeeping, with red indicating loss or deficit and black indicating profit. Therefore, this Friday is called Black Friday to show that this day is expected to be profitable. Because store discounts usually start at midnight after Thanksgiving (that is, at 0: 00 on Friday), people who want to buy bargains have to rush to the mall to buy bargains in the dark, which can also be regarded as the origin of "Black Friday". This kind of behavior has a very vivid saying, called EarlyBird.