Black Friday (document en anglais)

First, I selected a video that explains what this event means and what is its purpose for sellers as well as buyers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emaz6NiX_WQ&feature=related

B

lack Friday is the day after Thanksgiving in the United State, Thanksgiving Day is a holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada. This event is celebrated each year on the second Monday of October in Canada and on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States.

So, Black Friday starts on the fourth Friday of November in United States.

This event traditionally marks the start of the shopping period of the year end.

To ensure the greatest profit, many stores have special offers and lower their prices on some goods for year-end holidays, especially for Christmas party.

Black Friday is popular as a shopping day, in fact, this name is due to the importance of people coming to shop. Many of them do not hesitate to rush at the opening of stores to take many product offered at great offers.

However, this event has become dangerous, in fact, people rush to enter the store when it opened.

In a Wal-Mart in Long Island, New York, 2008. An employee who had opened the door to let a crowd was crushed by buyers who rushed product. The man, aged 34, died. Moreover, four people, including a pregnant woman, were hospitalized after the incident.

In my opinion, I think this event is interesting for consumers because merchants offer many products at low prices just before the holiday’s years. However, I think it was Black Friday took a different turn, in fact, people don’t hesitate to shoving, fighting among themselves to be the fastest.

I think that this event requires better security and people should be careful to avoid tragic accidents.

If these provisions are not applied, I think they should find measures to ensure that such purchases taking place safely.

This document is an article extracted from NY times and entitled “Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death”

It was published on November 28, 2008. It was written By David Ellis. On the CNNMoney.com website.

I chose this article because it focuses on the violence of the Black Friday, Indeed, it deals the death of the Wal-Mart employee in 2008, Moreover he explains that Best Friday is an advantage to shopping with these great offers:

http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/28/news/economy/blackfriday_walmart/index.htm

Finally I chose a short video showing the opening of a store during Black Friday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DigiWS1YhxI

Websites used:

- Wikipédia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_(shopping)

- http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/us/black-friday

- http://money.cnn.com/2008/11/28/news/economy/blackfriday_walmart/index.htm

...