Black Friday

Black Friday 2023 marked a significant surge in online shopping, with record-breaking sales totaling $9.8 billion in the United States and $70.9 billion globally.

Numbers released Monday show that the FBI ran 192,749 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks on Black Friday 2022.

The buzzword this Black Friday is “muted.”

The NFL has announced the addition of a “Black Friday” game for the day after Thanksgiving for the 2023 season.

Groups of looters hit two Best Buy stores in Minnesota’s Twin Cities just after 8:00 p.m. on Black Friday, according to reports.

Small Business Saturday is traditionally an opportunity to support small businesses between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Yet given that virtually all small businesses now offer Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, it has lost some of its relevance.

Climate crazies Extinction Rebellion have blockaded a number of Amazon warehouses in the UK on Black Friday, the company’s busiest day of the year.

A group of “organized burglars” conducted flash raids at several Chicago stores hours before shoppers gathered for Black Friday sales.

Black Friday shoppers may experience sticker shock this year. Prices of toys, clothing, electronics, computers, and televisions are expected to be between five and 17 percent higher this year than last year. That’s because discounts are being put on prices

Black Friday shoppers are back at it this year, nearly two years after the Chinese coronavirus rocked the world, which made last year’s holiday season a bit more unconventional.

Students at the University of Florida believed the name “Black Friday” should be changed until they learned that it has nothing to do with race.

Amazon employees in 20 countries are reportedly preparing to strike on Black Friday as part of a campaign titled “Make Amazon Pay.”

Over 186,000 firearm background checks were performed on Black Friday 2020, making it the fourth-highest one-day total for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks on record.

Teenage climate change activist Greta Thunberg urged consumers to avoid buying things they do not need on Black Friday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) urged Twitter users to buy from their online stores on Black Friday.

Retailers advertising big Black Friday sales do not appear to be drawing quite the same crowds traditionally seen in past years as the coronavirus continues to affect the holiday season, including the busiest shopping day of the year.

Black Friday appears to be calm but not catastrophically slow across much of the United States.

(AP) — Amazon’s director in France floated the possibility Friday of postponing its Black Friday discount shopping promotion by a week amid broad concerns that French shops shuttered by the nation’s coronavirus lockdown are haemorrhaging business and could be hurt further if they miss out on the consumer splurge.

Australia’s ‘climate’ fires are fast becoming the biggest fake news scare story of 2020. All the world’s stupidest, most annoying, hand-wringing, virtue-signalling leftists, luvvies, eco-loons, shyster politicians, second-rate activist scientists and other bottom feeders are jumping on the bandwagon.

Americans underwent over 200,000 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks, portending the purchase of enough guns to arm every active duty Marine.

French parliamentarians have voted through an amendment to ban publicity campaigns for “Black Friday” sales as protestors stormed dozens of businesses across the country.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) on Friday praised the climate change activists who are striking on Black Friday, urging them to “stay strong in this fight!”

Climate change activists swapped credit cards for homemade signs, using Black Friday to call attention to the climate change “crisis,” with some activists holding a “Black Friday Funeral for the Future” in Washington, DC.

Left-wing actress and activist Jane Fonda spent the Friday after Thanksgiving doing what she has done every Friday for the past eight weeks — protesting climate change. But this time, she also took aim at the agriculture and cattle industries.

Instead of shoving each other on the sales floors of stores, customers rush onto online stores, causing sites to slow or shut down.

Despite a holiday season shortened by a late Thanksgiving, retail spending is expected to rise by around 4 percent this year.

Pope Francis denounced the evil of consumerism Monday, just as stores were offering discounts to online Christmas shoppers for “Cyber Monday.”

Foot traffic to physical stores fell between 5 and 9 percent on both Thanksgiving and Black Friday this year, while online stores prospered.

Actress and singer Bette Midler says people go crazy during Black Friday shopping sales because the minimum wage is not high enough.

Small Business Administrator Linda McMahon touted Friday the economic benefits to the United States of shoppers partaking in “Small Business Saturday.”

Dozens of Black Friday shoppers were involved in a brawl at a Walmart in Palmdale, California, according to police. 

A man was shot at a Memphis Mall as bargain hunters began their Black Friday shopping after checking out an “attractive” woman.

Footage of two women wrestling over cookware during a Black Friday sale at a Walmart in Rockmart, Georgia, is making the rounds on social media. 

Cyber problems for shoppers on and around Black Friday.

Black Friday, routinely one of retail’s busiest shopping days of the year in the United States, has spread to countries around the world. Chaotic scenes of aggressive shoppers battling one another for deeply discounted goods are making the rounds on social media Friday.  

Macy’s, often considered a bellwether for the U.S. retail sector, says Black Friday has been a strong opening to holiday shopping season.