Today is Black Friday, the start of the holiday shopping season. The use of the phrase in reference to the busiest shopping and traffic day of the year first appeared in 1975 in The New York Times. The word "black" here refers to black ink (as in, "in the black") indicating profits vs. red ink, which was used to delineate losses. For the purposes of thi…
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