The shopping feast starts the Friday after Thanksgiving which automatically announces the kickoff of the Christmas buying seasons. That day falls anywhere between November 23 and November 29. Indeed, Philadelphia is the location where the term "Black Friday" originated. The expression was commonly used to describe the traffic jams. In the 60's, The day following Thanksgiving Philadelphia streets were clogged with heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic. By 1975, the day's name started to be widely used outside of the city. On the other hand, the term has a financial approach. September 29, 1869 was coined Black Friday due to the powerful attempt to manipulate and corner the Gold Market. That scandal caused the gold prices and stocks to plummet.
