Where did Black Friday come from?

not true, it's the point in the year for most retailers when they started making profit

CaptainLoserNumero1, yes that is correct and to add to it.. Friday after Thanksgiving...many retailers sell enough in this one day to put them "in the black" or make them profitable for the whole year. Years ago accountants used a pen and paper to track profit (black) and loss (red) .

More than one reason to use a catch phrase. Probably both are correct. Heard it used for both, and there are undoubtedly more.

Player #2105049, sounds like someone trying to stir up a stink. I have Never seen anything similar to this. It is all about the sales.

Black Fri·day Origin early 17th century (as school slang, in the sense ‘Friday on which an examination is held’). The shopping sense dates from the 1960s and was originally used with reference to congestion created by shoppers; it was later explained as a day when retailers’ accounts went from being “in the red” to “in the black”.

LyingFrog74225, you're both right. If a company is in the red the massive sales and the money people spend could help put them in the black.

it's from old adding machines. whenever you went into negative numbers, the ink on the tape turned red. when those numbers went positive, the ink turned black. Black=profit

MeemawSauce5457, that was Black Tuesday

LyingFrog74225, southern plantation owners sold their slaves at a discount on the day after Thanksgiving

I lived in Philly a long time and never heard of that

I've also heard it used about a day when the British pound crashed

JaKKeBrOwN, Really??????

JaKKeBrOwN, Really?

LyingFrog74225, I thought the term Black Friday came from the stock market crash in 1929.