No "Black Friday"?

[Astrokitty]

So, my mother works at that big WM store, and at a meeting the other day, the employees were told they were not allowed to call the hellish shopping day "Black Friday." Apparently, this is because of the person who was killed in that stampede last year.

Here is a link to the story:
www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/11/28/2008-11-28_worker_dies_at_long_island_walmart_after.html


Weird...

[mrstrish]

So, my mother works at that big WM store, and at a meeting the other day, the employees were told they were not allowed to call the hellish shopping day "Black Friday." Apparently, this is because of the person who was killed in that stampede last year.

Here is a link to the story:
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/...art_after.html


Weird...

It's never been "black friday" at WM. It was blitz, and now its called "The Event"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

At the swamp, we've taken to calling it "Green Friday" for no good reason.

I call it "Black Friday" and always will. But I can understand WM not wanting to use that term, given what happened in one of their stores last year.

[poofy_puff]

Ya, and a rose by any other name...

[lupo pazzesco]

My mom works at K-Mart, she says they're doing these whole "Blue Fridays" for the next few months, where there are daily specials every friday and saturday, so it's like Black Friday every week!!

My mom says if she ever finds who thought that up, they're getting introduced to her stand mixer, one limb at a time. (But she's not violent, really, since this site doesn't condone violence, at all! )

[poofy_puff]

GREAT.

"Black and Blue Friday".

[Javarod]

Green Friday is the new name, read that somewhere, but not sure why, either bad press over Black Friday, or they've just decided to be more blatant about why they do it (that'd be my guess ). Yep, at Wallyworld it was always Blitz Day, worked in electronics two years in a row, sixteen hours for one of them.

[SG15Z]

Kroger calls it Black Friday. They don't care. I'm proud of them

Wow I think I just gave my company a compliment.... I'm gonna check my temperature now....

[Broomjockey]

Companies called it "Black Friday" because it was the Friday that put them "in the black" on the ledger sheet. Nothing to do with darkness or badness. So don't respect them just yet.

[bainsidhe]

Um...lame?

[Dreamstalker]

Companies called it "Black Friday" because it was the Friday that put them "in the black" on the ledger sheet.

That's what I've always heard. Nothing to do with deaths (as much as we may want to ascribe it to the plague of shoppers...come to think of it, the swarms of shoppers tend to remind me of swarming rats).

Sounds to me like an attempt at correctness gone wrong.

[lordlundar]

Companies called it "Black Friday" because it was the Friday that put them "in the black" on the ledger sheet. Nothing to do with darkness or badness. So don't respect them just yet.

Yeah, that's the official reason. Retail staff on the other hand call it Black Friday because they see it as a harbinger of doom.

[lupo pazzesco]

While I can see the logic of calling it Black Friday in retail terms, the fact that Black in history usually has negative connotations is always going to make it seem worse than it is. Black Death. Black plague. Black Tuesday. Black Hole of Calcutta. Black Spring. Black July. Black Magic. Bla--ok, ok!! I've made my point, don't hit me anymore!!

[Broomjockey]

While I can see the logic of calling it Black Friday in retail terms, the fact that Black in history usually has negative connotations

again, it's an accounting thing. Ask Smiley. "In the black" is good. That's all they ever meant it as. It's the workers who've put other connotations to it. It's like any other accidental double entandre.

[Javarod]

While I can see the logic of calling it Black Friday in retail terms, the fact that Black in history usually has negative connotations is always going to make it seem worse than it is. Black Death. Black plague. Black Tuesday. Black Hole of Calcutta. Black Spring. Black July. Black Magic. Bla--ok, ok!! I've made my point, don't hit me anymore!!

You forgot Black Taco