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You are repeating a fairy tale some marketers invented to explain the black friday name.

Black friday is a term for a day when something horrible ocurs, the term was applied to the day after thanksgiving by police in an american city because of the difficulty in maintaining crowd control and it caught on.

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Well guess what? Language and terminology change over time

While black Friday is a reference to a single day in history. It is also a reference to the annual shopping for Christmas. Which has also changed. It really was the start of the shopping season but alas, you cant stop change

If you're so certain your etymology is the right one, you should probably be able to name the city.

Philadelphia and Rochester. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)#Origin...

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