It’s a global day of mass consumption born in the USA.
Here’s the history of Black Friday.
Here’s the history of Black Friday.
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00:10Originally it got the name because that was the day when retailers went into the black
00:38during the holiday season.
00:47Well it's a madhouse but it's a festive season so we enjoy coming down, we come down every
00:54year around this time.
00:55As you can see it's wall to wall people.
01:10You spend $20 on a tent and then you save $300 on a laptop and if you're buying several
01:15things like we are it comes to about $1,500.
01:18I got nine stores I had to hit up before, let's see, before 6am.
01:30Black Friday has definitely become bigger and bigger and it seems that more and more
01:34things are sort of going on sale so it's worth having a look.
01:36I think it's very anglophone, it's not officially French, but it's obviously doing well, there
01:41are a lot of people today, I didn't think there would be this many so there you go.
01:44The number of companies that joined us in 2014 was 120-130 and that was about a third of
01:51the companies that were working with us in 2014.
01:55In 2018 we reached 7,000 companies and all 7,000 of them now want to join us in the campaign.
02:06In 2017 Cyber Monday was the single biggest shopping day of the year for Amazon.
02:16This year maybe 600 more than last year, yeah, why?
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