Black Friday (shopping)
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Black Friday is a colloquial term for the Friday after Thanksgiving in the United States. It traditionally marks the start of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many stores offer highly promoted sales at discounted prices and often open early, sometimes as early as midnight[2] or even on Thanksgiving. Some stores' sales continue to Monday ("Cyber Monday") or for a week ("Cyber Week").
| Black Friday | |
|---|---|
 Shoppers rush into a store in Laramie, Wyoming as it opens on Black Friday. | |
| Observed by | Traditionally:[1] United States Others: Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Liechtenstein, Germany, Poland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, India, Norway, Sweden, France, Brazil, Mexico (as El Buen Fin) and increasingly many other parts of the world. |
| Type | Commercial |
| Significance | Popular shopping day |
| Observances | Shopping |
| Date | Day after U.S. Thanksgiving |
| 2022 date | November 25 |
| 2023 date | November 24 |
| 2024 date | November 29 |
| 2025 date | November 28 |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Related to | Thanksgiving, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday, Giving Tuesday, Christmas, Buy Nothing Day |
Black Friday occurs on the day after Thanksgiving in the United States. Black Friday has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States.[3][4][5]