Black Friday

[doorknob]

Is a 'Black Friday' the same in the UK as in USA?    If not, how many Black Fridays were there in 2003?

[Marsh]

I'd never heard of "a Black Friday" before I read your question.

Wikipedia tells me it is the Friday after Thanksgiving.  We don't do that either.  We have Harvest Festivals usually in the month of September.  Woodlands Junior School website says "Harvest festivals are traditionally held on or near the Sunday of the Harvest Moon. This moon is the full moon which falls in the month of September, at or around the time of the Autumnal Equinox. Unlike the USA and Canada, the UK does not have a national holiday for Harvest Festival.  We celebrate this day by singing, praying and decorating our churches with baskets of fruit and food ".

If you meant something else by "Black Friday", perhaps you could explain what it is.  We might have an equivalent.

[doorknob]

Cheers, MARSH,  unfortunately it was a quiz question "how many in 2003".  "Black Friday" can have something to do with commerce whereby a company/s go from red back into black but I don't know the criteria on which this is measured.

[nanner]

ok hmm think I can help,,Im in the US.  "Black Friday" is I think the last Friday before Christmas but it is called that because it gives the stores a chance to get into the black because that is when people shop like mad for the last minute gifts. Usually they have crazy sales also which just boost the numbers even more for them.

[jno]

Isn't Black Friday another term for Friday the 13th?