When is The Day after Thanksgiving?
The Day after Thanksgiving, observed in the United States on the Friday following the fourth Thursday in November, is not a government holiday but is observed as a holiday in nearly half the states and is observed as a day off by most workplaces.
Will public and private employees have paid holiday?
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 69% of public sector employees and 39% of private sector employees each receive a paid holiday on the same day. Because of this, it is a more well-known holiday than those observed by the government, like Presidents' Day, Columbus Day, and even Veteran's Day.
Where the holidays are celebrated in?
State holidays are celebrated in the following states: West Virginia, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, and Delaware.
The day is known to it as Family Day in Nevada. The day after Thanksgiving is celebrated as Abraham Lincoln's birthday in Indiana and Robert E. Lee's birthday in Georgia.
The popularity of this holiday is understandable. As Thanksgiving always falls on a Thursday, adding this day as a holiday creates a four-day weekend.
Shops are open and this day has come to mark the start of the Christmas shopping period.
Why is the day after Thanksgiving a holiday also called BLACK FRIDAY?
The 'Black Friday' was first applied to the day after Thanksgiving back in the 1950s when a factory trade magazine referred to workers calling out sick in order to have four days off over the Thanksgiving weekend.
The phrase wasn't widely used until a few decades later in Philadelphia, where the streets would become so congested with shoppers that it was termed 'Black Friday'. The phrase was then used by newspapers to describe how law police dealt with big gatherings. The term may have originated from the day's financial success, according to some. Since sales during the rest of the year frequently lag behind or are "in the red," Black Friday was a suitable name because it helped retailers get "in the black."
How Black Friday has become one of the busiest shopping days?
In the year in the United States, The term gained traction when the New York Times used it in 1975 to describe the shopping day. In recent years, the term has made its way around America and is now a common name for the day after Thanksgiving.
Even in Europe, Black Friday is becoming more common as retailers (led by the US internet sellers such as Amazon) use it to raise awareness of the shopping period and offer many sale bargains on that day. Indeed the UK often stages its own tribute to the original Philadelphia Black Friday when shoppers fight over bargains in supermarkets.
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