Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving (a holiday celebrated by Americans) and is marked by the start of Christmas/holiday shopping season ─ this is the main reason it became such a huge shopping event, with people preparing for the upcoming holidays.

The name of this major event first originated in Philadelphia and then spread across America and into the world as what we commonly know as the big day for shopping. Back then, the term ‘ Black Friday ’ pointed toward how businesses used to do their accounting and fill in their books.