Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the biggest shopping day of the year in the United States.  On that day profits are higher for the retailers than any other day in the year.  (The word ‘black’ is an accounting term which means profits instead of loss—sales being in the ‘black’ versus being in the ‘red’.)
 
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Thanksgiving Day in the U.S. was always the official beginning of the Christmas holiday season highlighted by the arrival of Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day parade.  Things have really changed in the past few years though.  Now, once Halloween is over, we begin to see Christmas decorations in the stores and Santa Claus is [...]