USA is the trend setter of the world when it comes to selling garbage from China at seemingly low prices around any holiday or special event.
But black Friday is a little generic… The end of November is approximately when most retail businesses go from “red” to “black” financially… That is the financially black day is the first day of the year when every sale from that point is 100% profit… All debts and liabilities for the year are covered.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 3 years ago
Originally, yes. However, the sale hype overflowed into Europe a few years back. Ultimately nobody minds, it's not about the holiday after all. Shops get to make fire sales and customers get deals and that's all that matters. It's just a convenient oppurtunity to make huge sales and benefit from the hype that is already made in America about it.
Everyone's connected thanks to the internet and people in Europe are more aware of things like Black Friday thanks to that.