Black Friday is now a Canadian custom, The shopping blitz-day has been advertised by most Canadian retailers for the last week or two. It has evolved from an effort to keep Canadians from crossing the border to shop on this occasion, to an all-out sales-event of its own in Canada.
Black Friday is the day after the American national holiday of Thanksgiving, which always falls on the last Thursday of November. The name comes from the point in the year at which retailers move into the black, and whatever they make from now to year-end is profit. They’re no longer in the red!
While mayhem and injury in so-called door-crasher sales have become part of the American experience, by all accounts in Canada today, everyone, true to the stereotype, was calm and co-operative.
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