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How America’s busiest shopping day came about, with a few tips to help you get your game on

Aya Brackett

For serious shoppers, the Friday after Thanksgiving is game day: Kickoff is early (sometimes at midnight), and those on the front line score the best deals. For retailers, it signals the start of the holiday shopping season.

  • Shoppers have spent big on this weekend for decades. Indeed, in 1939 President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving up a week to extend the shopping season and help business.
  • This day was first called Black Friday in the 1960s. The term derives from the old accounting practice of using red ink for debts and black ink for profits.
  • Last year more than 147 million people hit the sales that weekend (and 14 percent of them were at it before 4 A.M.), with each spending an average of $347.
  • To preview the day’s bargains, view leaked deals at bfads.net and blackfriday.gottadeal.com. For “Cyber Monday” sales (many Web retailers cut prices on the Monday after Thanksgiving), try cybermonday.com and bestcybermondaysales.com.

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