Black Friday takes place every year on the day after Thanksgiving Day and is usually the first day of the Christmas shopping season in the United States. Many people have the day off work to go shopping and enjoy a four-day weekend. Traditionally, on this day, ____ open their doors for longer hours and offer their products for sale at ____ prices. Unfortunately, because of the high number of shoppers ____ to get into the shops and fighting over products, there have been a number of injuries and even deaths. Nowadays ____ are available for longer throughout November and December, and due to the increase in online shopping, ____ can find bargains without leaving their couch. Black Friday was originally a U.S. event, but it is now becoming popular in other parts of the world. The term "Black Friday" was first used in the 1960's by police to describe the streets of Philadelphia which were always busy with heavy traffic and shoppers on the Friday after Thanksgiving. However, retailers have since brought another meaning to the term "black", connecting it to the idea that this is the time of year when retailers began to make a ____, which in accounting terms is referred to as being "in the black", whilst in contrast before this date, they would often be "in the red" (making a ____). Retailers soon noticed that the Monday following Black Friday was a day when consumers would commonly shop online, so they invented the term "Cyber Monday" and used it to encourage people to shop online instead of in person on this day. In recent years, many people have chosen not to buy anything on Black Friday, as a protest against ____ and ____. Buy Nothing Day is ____ by people in different ways; some choose to protest publicly in shopping centres while others spend the day in nature. Since Black Friday started, other retail days have been created over the years, such as Green Monday, Small Business Saturday, Super Saturday and Giving Tuesday.

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