{"id":1423,"date":"2013-11-29T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T06:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vac\/2013\/11\/29\/black-friday-2013\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T06:02:44","slug":"black-friday-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vac\/2013\/11\/29\/black-friday-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK FRIDAY 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Black Friday<\/strong> is the Friday following <a title=\"Thanksgiving (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29\">Thanksgiving Day in the United States<\/a>, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas <a title=\"Shopping\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shopping\">shopping<\/a> season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely  early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping  season, similar to <a title=\"Boxing Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boxing_Day\">Boxing Day<\/a> sales in many <a title=\"Commonwealth Nations\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Commonwealth_Nations\">Commonwealth Nations<\/a>.  Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but California and some other  states observe &#8220;The Day After Thanksgiving&#8221; as a holiday for state  government employees, sometimes in lieu of another federal holiday such  as <a title=\"Columbus Day\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Columbus_Day\">Columbus Day<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-Pima_County_Replaces_Columbus_Day-1\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the  day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number of  potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of  the year since 2005,<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-holiday.icsc.org-2\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate,<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-International_Council_of_Shopping_Centers-3\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-Albert_R._Karr_1982_p._30-4\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<p>The day&#8217;s name originated in <a title=\"Philadelphia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Philadelphia\">Philadelphia<\/a>,  where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive  pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after  Thanksgiving.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-linguistlist239-6\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use  outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation was  made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss from  January through November, and &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; indicates the point at  which retailers begin to turn a profit, or &#8220;in the black&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-7\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> For large retail chains like <a title=\"Walmart\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walmart\">Walmart<\/a>, their <a title=\"Net income\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Net_income\">net income<\/a> is positive starting from January 1, and Black Friday can boost their year to date net profit from $14 billion to $19 billion.<\/p>\n<p>For many years, it was common for retailers to open at 6:00 a.m., but  in the late 2000s many had crept to 5:00 or even 4:00. This was taken  to a new extreme in 2011, when several retailers (including <a title=\"Target Stores\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Target_Stores\">Target<\/a>, <a title=\"Kohl's\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kohl%27s\">Kohl&#8217;s<\/a>, <a title=\"Macy's\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Macy%27s\">Macy&#8217;s<\/a>, <a title=\"Best Buy\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Best_Buy\">Best Buy<\/a>, and <a title=\"Bealls (Florida)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bealls_%28Florida%29\">Bealls<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-8\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup>) opened at midnight for the first time<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-9\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> In 2012, <a title=\"Walmart\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walmart\">Walmart<\/a> and several other retailers announced that they would open most of  their stores at 8:00 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day (except in states where  opening on Thanksgiving is prohibited due to <a title=\"Blue laws in the United States\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_laws_in_the_United_States\">blue laws<\/a>, such as <a title=\"Massachusetts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Massachusetts\">Massachusetts<\/a> where they still opened around midnight),<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-10\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> prompting calls for a <a title=\"Walkout\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Walkout\">walkout<\/a> among some workers.<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-11\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup> Black Friday shopping is known for attracting aggressive crowds, with  annual reports of assaults, shootings, and throngs of people trampling  on other shoppers in an attempt to get the best deal on a product before  supplies run out<sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Black_Friday_%28shopping%29#cite_note-12\"><span><\/span><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Wikipedia: Black Friday is the Friday following <a title=\"Thanksgiving (United States)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thanksgiving_%28United_States%29\">Thanksgiving Day in the United States<\/a>, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas <a title=\"Shopping\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shopping\">shopping<\/a> season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to <a title=\"Boxing  <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/vac\/2013\/11\/29\/black-friday-2013\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46],"class_list":["post-1423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-friday"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BLACK FRIDAY 2013 - Dominique and Kristina&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BLACK FRIDAY 2013 - Dominique and Kristina&#039;s Au Pair In America Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Wikipedia: Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. 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