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Is anyone else's email overloaded by a constant stream of buy now and discounted emails?? I'm sooo sick of black friday deals. Who's with me?

Where's your Christmas spirit, Eldon? (giggle). It's TRADITION!

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Santa or Thanksgiving parades were sponsored by department stores sponsored by Eaton's, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade held in Manhattan, New York City since 1924. Department stores would use the parades to launch a big advertising push. Eventually, it became an unwritten rule that no store would try doing Christmas advertising before the parade was over. Therefore, the day after Thanksgiving became the day when the shopping season officially started.

For many years, retailers pushed opening times on Black Friday earlier and earlier, eventually reaching midnight, before opening on the evening of Thanksgiving. In 2009, Kmart manager Freddy Moss opened at 7 P.M. on Thanksgiving in order to allow shoppers to avoid Black Friday traffic and return home in time for dinner with their families. And the rush continued.

Gail wrote: "Where's your Christmas spirit, Eldon? (giggle). It's TRADITION!

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Santa or Thanksgiving parades were sponsored by department stores sponsored by Eaton..."

Interesting, but I fail to see how capitalistic interest in profit equates to Christmas spirit :)

Wow, I didn't realise Black Friday went back that far. (Heaven only knows how it got over here to the UK when we don't even have Thanksgiving! lol)

Valerie wrote: "Wow, I didn't realise Black Friday went back that far. (Heaven only knows how it got over here to the UK when we don't even have Thanksgiving! lol)"

Companies see a chance to make a buck lol

I refuse to jump on the bandwagon. I have deleted over 400 black Friday emails starting two weeks ago. Over it and the commercial holiday. I'll sit a home and enjoy a quiet day without all the fuss and bother.

Bah. Humbug.

I agree...lol

I got just a couple (I made a clean up and unsubbed from a lot of newsletters some two years ago), but I pretty much just delete them on sight.

Valerie wrote: "Heaven only knows how it got over here to the UK when we don't even have Thanksgiving! lol"

Hi Valeri, that's because the term Balck Friday has nothing to do with Thanksgiving, per se. Black Friday is the day that retailers first turn a profit for the year base on whatever accounting they use to figure that out.
If lots of people always used the Friday after Thanksgiving as the first day of Christmas shopping, that probably influenced the numbers to make it the day that it is.