There were a lot of versions about the origin of black Friday. One of the versions is that a lot of people went to the malls to queue up so as to go shopping on the Friday after the Thanksgiving day and a quite commonly kind of the opinion considered that this Friday was the first day of opening business after the Thanksgiving day and later the traditional and grand Christmas day in the United States would come as well as people often started to have this Christmas day shopping. Besides, many stores would have a lot of customers so that these merchants would get big amount to their account.

Traditionally, people would like to use the ink of different colors to record to an account. The red color was said losses or deficit and the black color was said to make a profit. So this Friday was called the black Friday, which was used to look forward to having a profit on this day.

In addition, the discounts activities would be generally started at the midnight (zero point) of the end of the Thanksgiving Day on Friday, and the day after the Thanksgiving Day began, so people who want to purchase a bargain must touch the black and rush to the store as well as line up so that they can purchase a bargain, so this can also be regarded as a origin of ‘‘ black Friday’’. This kind of behavior has a very vivid statement, called Early Bird.

Moreover, the November and December were originally the traditional shopping seasons each year and the ‘‘ black Friday’’ was the most crazy shopping day of the year in the United States, so the employees of these stores used this name of black Friday to laugh at themselves and said that they would be busy to death on this day. And some of the groups of protesting against consumerism also deliberately chose this day to be a not consumption day.