Originally Posted by
Smid
It's always the fourth Friday in November. It's the day after the US Thanksgiving, the fourth Thursday in November. Named Black Friday because, well, I went to check why, and found about four explanations and not the one I'd heard...
Recently Black Friday sales have been starting earlier than this, especially in countries which don't celebrate it. Which is everyone else.
Isn’t this the day retailers start to be profitable (eg the accounts are in the black not in the red).
Actually I have heard that when Black Friday falls on a Sunday, BA offers J returns to most destinations for £999...