Blackfriday: perché si chiama nero? #shorts
9 Nov 2021 · 1 min
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In this short Italian video, the speaker asks why the day after Thanksgiving is called "Black Friday" (venerdì nero). He presents two main theories: one links the term to accountants’ black ink, symbolizing the shift of business accounts from red (loss) to black (profit) after the holiday sales; the other attributes the name to the sight of long lines of black cars queuing outside New York department stores. He then notes that the practice of offering discounts on that Friday dates back to 1924, when Macy’s began its sales after Thanksgiving, and remarks that the tradition is now nearly a century old, ending with a rhetorical question to the audience.
