Black Friday ESSAY

A brief history . . . Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season. Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving" as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes instead of another federal holiday such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.[

In the news . . . An excerpt from the New York Times . . . If an alien with an accounting degree touched down in America, it might conclude that we’re a weird cult that spends 11 months living frugally and four crazy weeks buying tons of stuff we don’t need. It wouldn’t be entirely wrong, either. Retailers make around a fifth of their sales during the holiday season — close to half a trillion dollars — when the ratio of frivolous to necessary purchases spikes. It’s not unusual for large chains to operate in the red from New Years’ Day through Thanksgiving and then make it all up in those crazy weeks.

EXERCISE: BLACK FRIDAY ESSAY Research more on BLACK FRIDAY. Find an article that is relevant to the topic (attach article to your essay). In a word document, briefly describe what you understood from the article. Then write a 5 paragraph essay explaining what Black Friday means to you. What “traditions” do you have with your family? Are you against or for it? If you could go shopping anywhere on Black Friday where would you go and why? Essay must be at least 250 words, double spaced, Times New Roman, size 12 font.

250 Words Times New Roman / size 12 font Black ink / double Spaced Indent every paragraph No Plagiarism Email it to coachzeida@gmail.com by Monday night (1 grade) Bring in a printed copy next class (1 grade)