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  • Wheaties [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
    6·
    4 months ago

    Back when this was all primarily on paper, expenses were printed in red ink, income in black. So if you were spending more than you were making, your accountant might describe that as “in the red”. If you start to show profit, you’re “in the black”. That’s where we get the black in Black Friday.

    I guess white friday is when you’re bad at sums, so you have to hit backspace.

    • mendiCAN [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      4 months ago

      actually this is a popular misconception.

      Black Friday was coined as such by the retail workers police officers who were forced to work it, because of how rough that shift was. it got popular enough the caps took the name and changed the lore to the bit you just typed there.

      something something capitalism subsuming criticisms to itself n shit

      edit it was the police, not retail workers who coined it, i remembered wrong

      In the 1950s, police in Philadelphia used the term to describe the chaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when hordes of suburban shoppers and tourists flooded the city in advance of the annual Army-Navy football game held that Saturday. Not only were Philadelphia police unable to take the day off, but they had to work extra-long shifts dealing with the additional crowds and traffic.