Liverpool, Merseyside, UK 29th November, 2013. Father Christmas busker Robert Bethea, 32 from Spain busking. Liverpool One city centre holiday shopping season, retail shops, stores, Christmas shoppers, discount sale shopping, and consumer spending on Black Friday considered to be the biggest shopping day of the year. retailers have embraced the post-holiday sale bonanza, even though many customers were left surprised by wall-to-wall discounts in their favourite stores as some went bonkers for bargains.
Black Friday is the Friday following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, often regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season. In recent years, most major retailers have opened extremely early and offered promotional sales to kick off the holiday shopping season, similar to Boxing Day sales in many Commonwealth Nations. Black Friday is not a federal holiday, but California and some other states observe "The Day After Thanksgiving" as a holiday for state government employees, sometimes in lieu of another federal holiday such as Columbus Day. Many non-retail employees and schools have both Thanksgiving and the day after off, followed by a weekend, thereby increasing the number of potential shoppers. It has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year since 2005, although news reports, which at that time were inaccurate, have described it as the busiest shopping day of the year for a much longer period of time.
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