HISTORY
What holiday is before Black Friday?
Thanksgiving
What activity do you usually do on Black Friday?
Shopping (on discount)
The most popular item sold on Black Friday in the USA is...?
Pyjamas
(in France = Flat screens TVs)
What amount of money people spend on Black Friday in average in the USA?
A poll of 2,000 Americans found that the average American spends about $520 on Black Friday.
What is a cyber shopping?
Shopping done online
What year did Black Friday begin?
1966
Since the 1930s, Black Friday has been considered the unofficial start of what?
Christmas (shopping) season
Which retailer is the most dangerous place to shop on Black Friday?
The most violence seems to occur at Walmart (57.1 percent of Black Friday incidents) leading to the Twitter hashtag each year #Walmartfights.
How many deaths occured on Black Friday in 2022?
11
Which online retailer was Black Friday's shoppers' favourite in 2022?
Amazon
What year did it become the biggest shopping holiday?
2005
What's the name given to the shopping day right after Black Friday?
Cyber Monday
True or False: Black Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year?
False
This is Sunday before Christmas
When was Cyber Monday created?
2005
What does BOGOF stand for?
Buy One, Get One Free
Black was originally used to describe what event, in 1864?
On September 24, 1864, gold prices collapsed, and there was sudden stock market panic. The shopping crowds several decades later were thought to be reminiscent of the panic from the time.
When is Black Friday?
Always the Friday after Thankgiving holiday.
This year it will take place on November, 24th
What’s the most expensive item ever sold on a Black Friday?
A diamond worth $2 million
What percent of Black Friday shoppers later regret their purchases?
An estimated 52% of shoppers purchase something on sale that they later regret.
What is a doorbuster or early bird sale?
Cheaper prices when store first opens / Sale prices for only early shoppers.
The term Black Friday originated in what U.S. city?
Philadelphia.
Police officers in Philadelphia were first to link Black Friday to the post-Thanksgiving period in the 1950s. Large crowds of tourists and shoppers came to the city the day after Thanksgiving for the Army-Navy football game, creating chaos, traffic jams and shoplifting opportunities. Police officers in the city weren't able to take the day off work and instead had to work long shifts to control the carnage, coining the phrase Black Friday to refer to it.
Why is Black Friday black?
Black Friday represents the point in the year when retailers begin to turn a profit, thus going from being "in the red" to being "in the black".
More recently, some popular stores have started boycotting Black Friday. What name did they give to this event?
Buy Nothing Day
More and more shoppers hire people to wait in the lines while they are shopping. What is the going rate for hiring someone to wait in line for you on Black Friday?
Professional line sitters make up to $35 an hour, and Black Friday is their busiest day of the year.
Mainly western countries participate in BF (The USA, Canada, Norway or France)
Name 2 countries that do not participate in Black Friday
Russia, South Africa, Mexico and some countries have their own version of Black Friday, such as "Singles Day" in China, or "Click Frenzy" in Australia