Black Friday

Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving Day in the United States, usually the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. On this day, most major retailers open very early, sometimes  at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to start the shopping season. Black Friday is not actually a holiday, but most non-retail employers give their employees the day off, hoping to increase  the number of  shoppers. It has usually been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, however news reports, which at that time were not trustworthy , have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a longer period of time.
The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to depict the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.The use of the term started before 1966 and began to see a wide range of usage outside  of Philadelphia around 1975. Later a different explanation began to be offered: that "Black Friday" indicates the point which retailers begin to see an actual profit, or are "in the black".   Your comments ...?