When is Black Friday in 2015?

Black Friday in 2015 is on Friday, the 27th of November.

Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States.

Black Friday Shopping

Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States (the fourth Thursday in November). Since early 2000, the start of the holiday shopping season in the United States and is considered the main shops open very early (and more recently, overnight) and offer promotional sales. Black Friday is not a holiday, but in California and elsewhere to replace all other federal parties as having "Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Day" as a holiday for officials sometimes Day Raza. Many employees and schools not to detail has both Thanksgiving and the following Friday off, in order to normal next week, so a weekend of four days, which increases the number of potential buyers. The routine has been the busiest shopping day of the year, since 2005, despite the messages at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period. Similar stories are produced every year at this time, screen hysteria and lack of action, in which a state of positive feedback.

It was in 2014, during the four-day Black Friday weekend spent $ 50.9 billion, a decrease of 11% compared to last year. While about 133 million US consumers bought in the same period, a decrease of 5.2% over the preceding year $ 141 million.

The original name of the day in Philadelphia, where it was used for the movement of heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle would describe the day after Thanksgiving. Use of the term started before 1961 and began a broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975. Later an alternative explanation see realized: the traditional financial loss to retailers operate ("red"), from January to November "Black Friday" indicates that retailers begin to make a profit, or "black".

For many years it was customary for retailers opened at 06:00, but much slipped to late 2000 until 05:00 or 4:00 hours. This was added to a new extreme in 2011, as a number of retailers (including Target, Kohl's, Macy's, Best Buy and Bealls) opened at midnight done the first time. In 2012, Wal-Mart and many other retailers announced that they watch to 8:00 on the Day of Thanksgiving (to open most of its business, except in countries where the action of the opening is prohibited thanksgiving for the blue laws, such as Massachusetts, where they open at midnight), prompting calls for strike by some employees. In 2014, stores like JCPenney, Best Buy and Radio Shack at 5:00 clock on Thanksgiving, while stores like Target, Wal-Mart, Sears and Belk opened at 6:00 clock on Thanksgiving . There are reports of violence, which was one of the shoppers on Black Friday.

It is to potential buyers in the field during the Thanksgiving holiday in order to get a spot in front of the line and therefore a greater likelihood of the desired products; Once a major security risk (such as the use of propane and generators in other cases and, in general, blocking and emergency access fire) at least one point prohibited practice.