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Black Friday
History and Tips
The origin of the name, "Black Friday" has
been traced back to the 1970s and did not gain
widespread popularity until 2002. The term historically
comes from the retailer's shift to profitability during
the holiday season. Years ago when accounting records
were kept by hand, red ink indicated financial loss
while black ink indicated profit, thus coining the
popular fiscal terms of being "in the red," (losing
money) or "in the black" (profitable).
Considered by many as he "official" beginning to the
holiday season, Black Friday is the day after
Thanksgiving when many U.S. consumers typically begin
their Christmas shopping. Stores are often decorated for
the Christmas season in what seems like immediately
following Halloween. Retailers usually open very early,
some at 5 A.M. (as of last year I saw one at 4 a.m.) to
offer their door buster deals. Sales are heavily
promoted by retailers throughout the country.The next
rung up the remote control ladder is the so called
"smart remote". This type of remote is able to control
multiple pieces of equipment from different
manufacturers. Some can control up to 8 or 10 different
components. They are usually set to control each piece
of equipment by entering a 3 or 4 digit code. Some of
these units will learn control functions from other
remote controls. This is helpful if the unit you need to
control is not in your remote control's internal
database. You usually accomplish the learning by
entering a "learn" mode on the smart remote, pointing
the "teaching" remote at the smart remote and pressing
the desired button. Viola! Your smart remote has learned
the command from the original remote control.
Black Friday has been referred to as the
busiest retail shopping day of the year by
the media, and typically is but not in terms
of both sales and customer traffic. That day
would be reserved for either Christmas Eve
or the last Saturday before Christmas.
Some of the more popular retailers (both
brick and mortar and online) that offer big
deals on Black Friday are, in no particular
order:
Best Buy, Radio Shack, Staples, Office
Depot, CompUSA, Wal-Mart, Lowes, K-Mart,
Sears, Office Max, Target, Toys R Us, Sams
Club, JC Penney, Home Depot, of course
plenty of jewelry stores, electronics stores
and many others. We sincerely apologize if
we may have missed your store as there are
so many we couldn't possibly know them all.
Good Luck, Have Fun and Be Safe!
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