Originally Posted by
Takiteasy
Isn’t this the day retailers start to be profitable (eg the accounts are in the black not in the red).
Back before it was an actual thing in the UK, I read that it meant the day after Thanksgiving where a lot of people phoned in sick after their holiday 'excess', due to everyone taking it off and nobody wanting to go to work.
The one above was given as one of the origins.
Another was about the amount of car crashes from people going to sales on that day.
I'm sure some of Putins trolldiers will put out a hundred fake news sites claiming some sort of racist description too... So it will mean that next year.