Black Friday and Cyber Monday

1. Black Friday and Cyber Monday Black Friday is usually the fourth Friday of November and is celebrated right after Thanksgiving. Cyber Monday then follows. These shopping days have been a thing for a really long time. Cyber Monday started when internet got a little mainstream. Black Friday is named as “black”for two main reasons. Firstly, because the sales went away from the red marking to black marking on this day of discounts. Red marking is equivalent to negative marking in accounts. Secondly, because of all the traffic on the roads near every other shopping mall or market, the police declared it to be black. Cyber Monday, on the other hand, gets its name because the deals and discounts are online and the internet world was named as the “Cyber Web”, hence cyber. And Monday because it is a strong belief that people would rather browse through online stores when they are at work rather than when they are at home. Black Friday rules the retail worlds, while Cyber Monday rocks the online shopping sprees. So, everybody would hit the stores on Friday and hit the internet on Monday. Nowadays, with the fast pace of the time, Black Friday had also made its appearance online. Retailers still come up with “door buster” deals and discounts, though. And even when the internet has completely embraced Black Friday, Cyber Monday still remains one of the biggest online shopping days to date. The retailers and the brands that advertise online, try to bedazzle shoppers with their “Best deals of the year” and “Deals that will never be repeated”, but that is all a bunch of hocus-pocus! This is done to indulge the buyers in the “Fear of missing out”, FOMO. But before you dive into shopping on either of the days, make sure that you research and think before you buy. You should know if the bargain is really a bargain or not. When we talk about which one is better, surveys have shown how people would much rather buy things in a couple of clicks, even if it is a little more on the price, rather than going to the store, searching what they want and standing in queues.