We live in a time where in this day and age, being thankful is overrided by a competitiive sales market numbers game that many fall victim too without even realizing what’s really occuring.
Forget about Thanksgiving turkey, family bonding, making memories, and football; for a lot of shoppers, Black Friday is the week’s truly notable holiday. The unofficial start of the holiday shopping season is often referred to as the busiest shopping day of the year, but where did this tradition start and just how big is it?
Why did competitive sales spark millions interests, while healing from pain, trauma, and wanting to be a better YOU took a backseat?
Why did competitive sales spark millions interests, while healing from pain, trauma, and wanting to be a better YOU took a backseat?
HOW DID BLACK FRIDAY BECAME SUCH A BIG SHOPPING DAY?
It dates back to the late 19th century. In those days, most retailers adhered to an unwritten rule that holiday shopping season didn’t start until after Thanksgiving, so no stores would advertise holiday sales or aggressively court customers until the Friday immediately following the holiday.
In 1939, the Retail Dry Goods Association warned Franklin Roosevelt that if the holiday season wouldn’t begin until after Americans celebrated Thanksgiving on the traditional final Thursday in November, retail sales would go in the tank.
Ever the iconoclast, Roosevelt saw an easy solution to this problem: he moved Thanksgiving up by a week.
Ever the iconoclast, Roosevelt saw an easy solution to this problem: he moved Thanksgiving up by a week.
So instead of celebrating the holiday on its traditional day—November 30th that year—Roosevelt declared the next-to-last Thursday in November to be the new Thanksgiving!
***There is tremendous hope for sensitive people known as EMPATHS, to heal from picking up others outside negative energy!*** …Heal yourself here Today!
How Did The Term BLACK FRIDAY Originate?
According to researchers, the name “Black Friday” dates back to Philadelphia in the mid-1960s.
If you ask most people why the day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday, they’ll explain that the name stems from retailers using the day’s huge receipts as their opportunity to “get in the black” and become profitable for the year.
DO RETAILERS REALLY NEED BLACK FRIDAY TO TURN AN ANNUAL PROFIT?
Major retailers don’t, when they’re already generally profitable or at least striving for profitability throughout the entire year. (A company that turned losses for three quarters out of every fiscal year wouldn’t be a big hit with investors.)
Some smaller outlets may broaden and/or hike up big holiday season sales into annual profits, though.
IS BLACK FRIDAY REALLY THE BIGGEST SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR?
It’s certainly the day of the year in which you’re most likely to be punched in the face, or jumped by some irrate shopper while reaching for the latest Elsa doll, but it might not be the busiest day in terms of gross receipts.
Black Friday may, however, be the busiest day of the year only in specific terms of ” customer traffic “. But it still gets a hefty amount of stiff competition from the week leading up to Christmas, particularly the Saturday right before the big day.
Is BLACK FRIDAY Shopping Worth the risks?
Many people have started to boycott from shopping on Black Friday in the United states due to numerous senseless killings in nearly every city or state.
IS CYBER MONDAY THE BIGGEST ONLINE SHOPPING DAY OF THE YEAR?
Like Black Friday, Cyber Monday probably isn’t quite the e-commerce boom that you’d expect. The first few years of Cyber Monday looked a lot like Black Friday, according to reports by Snopes. Sales were certainly higher than normal, but the biggest e-commerce days were still usually a couple of weeks before Christmas.
Basically, online shopping’s big days are governed by the same keep-putting-it-off impulse that shapes traditional retail’s best revenue days, only the online jackpots come a little earlier as procrastinators have to allow for shipping time.
Many EMPATHS rather shop online than deal with crowds!
It is fairly difficult just to be an Empath. But to deal with massive crowds can cause anxiety, and headaches/ migraines. Most opt to stay home and shop “online” to avoid being bombarded left and right by outrageous customers flailing emotions and being witness to disgusting violence.
It overwhelms to the point of putting a bad taste in the Empaths mouth, and literally being turned off from the whole idea of it.
EMPATHS who are unaware that they are affected directly by their surroundings are more than likely to be unshielded as well. Gaining a deeper knowledge and understanding will truly make all the difference.
Once you know what’s occuring within, then it’s completely up to the individual to act on it and no longer be in limbo or battle with their innerself.
Healing can be done here …Empath Healing!
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