Loads of sales event has been going on towards the end of the year. Looking back in time, the biggest sales known to Malaysians during the 2nd half of the year would probably be the Christmas sales and YES - Year End Sales. But with the boom of Internet, we now have the Double Eight to Double Twelve, and recently Black Friday and Cyber Monday has becoming more popular. 

As many of you know the Double event started with Double Eleven, which in China they called it the Singles' Day. With that, some may have start wondering, so what is "Black Friday"? Does it has any special meaning or religious story behind (Cause it do sounds like one, sorry, I judged)?

In the United States, Black Friday is an unofficial name for the Friday following the famous Thanksgiving Day. Tracing back to 1952, the day after Thanksgiving has been referred as the start of Christmas shopping season. However, this is not how it got it's name. 

According to report, the earliest record of the term "Black Friday" was originated in Philadelphia. The term was used by the local police to describe the heavy traffic that would normally occur on the day after Thanksgiving, which is celebrated on the 4th Thursday of November. The usage dates to at least 1961.

To summarise the above two records, the term has been referred to as a busy traffic Friday after Thanksgiving. And the name only become popular until recent decades, after being popularized by the global retailers. 

As it became more widely used, another famous explanation surfaced, saying that this very day marks the point in the year when retailers start making profit, therefore it goes from being "in the red" to being "in the black".

So here you go. The meaning behind the infamous term - Black Friday. And the next question after this would be, how much you gonna spend on this day? Not asking you to spend, but, here's some promotion compilation >> Click Here <<