Black Friday looms and many retailers are bracing for the impact. Not as known in the UK, Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving that has become synonymous with huge sales, crazy shoppers and sometimes even violence in the United States. What started out as an interesting way to bring customers into the stores on a day when most of America was on holiday has turned into a ‘not to be out done’ campaign amid all the major retails stores.
When I was a child in the States, I remember the Thanksgiving weekend being the start of the holiday season. We would have a filled Thursday of family, food, hanging Christmas lights and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. That evening, we would pull out the circulars from the paper and find out where the good deals would be and who would be offering the best ‘Door Buster’ gifts.
