One of the events that has been taking place for years and that sometimes kicks off Christmas gifts is Black Friday. However, every year is a different day. Do you want to know when Black Friday is in 2023? And the origin and history of this date.
Then take a look at what we have compiled for you. You will know the exact date of the day when stores give more discounts and you can buy more for less (always checking that they have not set the prices higher, of course). Shall we start?
When is Black Friday 2023
In order not to make you wait, and because it is very easy to find out by putting that same question on Google and coming up with a specific date, We will tell you that Black Friday in 2023 is next November 24.
Now, if you have purchased online, if you visit social networks, web pages with ads, etc. surely in Some of them have shown you stores that are already with Black Friday.
And, although the celebration is on a specific day, many stores decide to offer discounts, either during that week or throughout the month. In fact, the majority bet on that week to maintain discounts on their products.
But have you ever wondered where this “discount party” came from? And why has it been maintained over time? EITHER why is it called black friday? That is what we are going to tell you below.
The origin of Black Friday
As you know, Black Friday is an American celebration. It appeared in the United States and after a few years it began to spread to Europe and the rest of the world. Something similar to Halloween.
However, beyond the discount day, very few have any idea of the origin of this specific day. Or why it has become a custom and all businesses, sooner or later, celebrate it.
Black Friday has a lot to do with Thanksgiving. In the United States it is celebrated every year on the last Thursday of November (it is something that has not yet spread to the entire world).
And what does that have to do? Well, the next day, Friday, they have the tradition of going out to the shopping centers, to the stores, even shopping online. Let's say it is the day when the most sales occur.
Now, this really is something that is normally seen now, hence why Black Friday coincides with Thanksgiving.
However the true origin has less to do with purchases. In fact, we cannot be sure that it is the origin of this day either, because there are several theories about the birth of the day.
One of them, the one considered the most credible, has to do with Wall Street. As you know, it is famous because there is the stock market. In 1869, specifically on Friday, September 24 (not November), two agents, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, attempted a risky trick: to monopolize the entire gold market. To do this, they got together with Boss Tweed, a famous New York politician. And it is said that they tried to bribe several judges and famous personalities to get their plan to go ahead.
The problem is that the result was not what I expected.
were. The price of gold fell in minutes and many investors were ruined, causing September 24 to be a “Black Friday.” for everyone who was involved in this plan. Or what is the same, a "Black Friday."
Several years later, in the mid-1950s, just the day after Thanksgiving, something happened that caused the police themselves to name that day "Black Friday."
What happened?
You see, we are set in Philadelphia. After Thanksgiving, there was going to be an Army-Navy football game that Saturday. Quite a spectacle. And a lot of people wanted to see it. So on Friday there was such an avalanche of people who arrived, who went to the stores to do their shopping to have Saturday off, who agreed to do their Christmas shopping that day that no police officer could take Friday off, They had to work twelve hours to control all the people who were there.. And that is why it was considered one of the "blackest" days.
Stores and companies in Philadelphia decided to use that term Black Friday for the day after Thanksgiving, somehow remembering what had happened that day.
Of course, only in Philadelphia. The rest of the American states had no idea about that holiday nor did they apply it. Except from 1966.
On that date it appeared in The American Philatelist magazine on Black Friday. And although it did not make a significant dent, it did begin to attract attention. In fact, years later, in 1975, The New York Times used the expression in its November 19 newspaper. He didn't actually use it to talk shopping, but because there was a traffic problem the day after Thanksgiving. Of course, caused by the avalanche of people who had gone out to do Christmas shopping that day. But it was enough for many companies, businesses and others to use this expression to refer to that event.
Black Friday in Spain
In the case of Spain, Black Friday did not arrive until 2012, and the pioneer that did it was MediaMarkt. Until then, not much was known about this day.
But a year later other companies joined in, such as Amazon or El Corte Inglés.
And already in 2015 the popularity of Black Friday was so widespread that many stores began to establish it and encourage people to make their purchases that day with great discounts.
In fact, It is now common for Black Friday to extend beyond its corresponding day, sometimes extending days before that Friday, or even joining it with the weekend itself to give more time for more people to be encouraged to buy.
So now you know when Black Friday is and the origin of this day. Have you ever looked up the history of that Black Friday and why it was called that?