Black Friday

[Baker, John]

        Yes, many of the news reports do attribute the name to retailers going into the black, and this may have been a factor in the term's acceptance, but the earliest cites seem to derive the term from its use to indicate a bad traffic day.

John Baker


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Ostrowsky [mailto:sylvar at VAXER.NET]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 8:58 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Black Friday


By way of explanation, since I haven't seen this said explicitly on the
list (or did I miss it?) -- according to the discussion on Slashdot, it's
called Black Friday because it's said to be the day that many retailers
finally get into the black (become profitable) for the year.

Ben