The Black Friday. or Black Friday. for its translation in English is the day on which Christmas shopping begins, and which has gained a lot of strength over the last decade in El Salvador, since many people take advantage to buy for the discounts offered by businesses, shops and shopping malls, but how did it originate?, what does it consist of?, and above all, how did it get to El Salvador?
The Black Friday takes place after the Thanksgiving Day. in the United States, which is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the American country.
The origin of the “Black Friday,” according to National Geographic magazine, has various theories, however, the most affordable theory counts that the Friday, September 24, 1869, two Wall Street stockbrokers (Jay Gould and Jim Fisk) tried to accumulate the entire gold market in their hands by alive with Boss Tweed, a famous New York politician.
However, the expression of “Black Friday,” according to the Telegraph media, was used as such In the mid-50s, in a football game one day after Thanksgiving, as in Philadelphia, United States, thousands of people arrived to do their Christmas shopping after the meeting.
Local cops named Friday as Black Friday, due to the hard work to contain buyers, Philadelphia merchants later used that name to describe buyers on the Friday after Thanksgiving day.
And in El Salvador?
According to the president of the Consumer Ombudsman, Ricardo Salazar, the Black Friday, despite being an American tradition, at least since 2010 the first indications of this holiday began to be given.
This Black Friday activity will be about 15 years old in which you see a stronger movement in commercial activity is there around 2010 that the first movements are beginning to occur at the level of shops, Salazar mentioned during the channel 10 interview this Friday.
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In addition, Salazar stated that this is an activity that it is characterized by having extraordinary offers worldwide and it is sought this day that shops offer promotions, offers, extraordinary discounts and is highly expected by the general population.
On the part of the shops, the opportunity is used to make a liquidation or emptying of their inventories, to start the activity of sales in the Christmas season, Salazar said.
This article was translated after appearing in Diario El Mundo