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Black Friday History: From the Traffic Jam to Great Investments
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Black Friday = chaos, long lines, and traffic jam
The whole world knows that the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday, is reserved for shopping. But, WHY? It all started in the 1950s when hordes of people the day after Thanksgiving flooded into Philadelphia because of the big football game. There were so many people on the streets that police in the city weren’t able to take a day off. Not only that! They had to work extra-long shifts to deal with a crowd and traffic. To describe the traffic jam of that day, police said: “This Friday was black with traffic”. Salespeople also used the term coined by police to describe the long lines and chaos they had to deal with on that day. The term spread slowly before it gained national attention in the early 1980s. Even though there were some suggestions for renaming this day into “Big Friday”, it stayed as a Black Friday because that was (and still is) the first day of the holiday season which means retails won’t be “in the red” anymore.![Black Friday FOREO](https://assets.foreo.com/files/static/images/wp-text/01_FOREO_Black-Friday_Lead-image-1-300x169_1.png)
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