27/11/2020
🛒 BLACK FRIDAY 🛒
Did you know???🤔😉
1. The term “Black Friday” was coined in the 1960s to mark the kick-off to the Christmas shopping season. “Black” refers to stores moving from the “red” to the “black,” back when accounting records were kept by hand, and red ink indicated a loss, and black a profit.
2. Card transactions cleared on Black Friday is normally double the daily average.
3. Nine out of ten South Africans know what Black Friday is.
4. Black Friday’s local Twitter reach increased from 2.4 million on November 12th to 47.2 million on the 20th.
5. Online shopping is becoming more popular on Black Friday, due to people trying to avoid crowding in shops, long queues and violence.
6. Black Friday has spread to over 15 countries in the world.
7. In Mexico Black Friday is referred to as “El Buen Fin”, which translates to ‘the good weekend’.
8. Black Friday sales in South Africa grew by an incredible 9900% from 2012 to 2017.
9. Last year’s Black Friday was worth at least R1.36 billion – not counting electronics.
10. The biggest sellers are TV’s, smartphones, long-life foods & toiletries.