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Friday, November 28, 2014
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Wait For It! Black Friday By The Numbers
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| People carry shopping bags along Broadway on December 2, 2013 in New York City. Getty Images |
When they sit down to carve their turkeys on Thursday, families across the U.S. have at least one reason to be thankful: Black Friday. The annual feast of discounts and credit card-swiping — which, increasingly, begins on Thanksgiving itself, if not sooner — pumps billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and prompts Americans to get a head start on holiday shopping. Here are the key figures behind the binge:
1966: The year Philadelphia police are thought to have coined the term “Black Friday,” referring to the tide of theft and traffic infractions they had to cope with on the first big day of Christmas shopping.
6 p.m.: The time that U.S. Target, Walmart, and Sears stores will open for Black Friday this year, but on Thanksgiving Thursday.
5 p.m.: The time that Best Buy stores will open on Thursday.
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