According to Investopedia, the term Black Friday refers to the day after Thanksgiving, and marks a time when retailers generally see an upward spike in sales. Many consider this day to be the start of the holiday shopping season, and it is common for retailers to offer special promotions and open early to lure customers. Investopedia's definition also states that the term Black Friday was originally used in reference to September 24, 1869, a day of stock market catastrophe.

The term Black Friday naturally gets a lot of media coverage at the end of the year as the holiday season approaches. According to many media companies, over the last few years, Internet sales have also experienced a boom on this day because most online retailers offer the same sales and bargains as brick-and-mortar stores. Black Friday generally offers deep discounts on highly coveted electronic items as well.  However, in our opinion here at Apparel Search, the sale of clothing and fashion accessories is far more important then electronics such as TV's or mobile devices.  Why would anyone buy a new television when they could buy a new pair of shoes or a blouse?

In regard to fashion, you will find many bargains on black Friday.  If you get to the clothing stores early, you may have an opportunity to catch some of the special door buster deals.  Unfortunately, door busters usually go fast.  You need to get to the store as soon as it opens.  The door buster products typically run out fast.  If you are looking for Friday Doorbusters, you should plan to be a pre-dawn shopper (meaning, you must get up and to the stores early).

Don't worry if you miss all the special sales on Black Friday.  Fortunately, you will have another opportunity as cyber Monday follows in a few days.

You may also have interest in learning about cyber Monday.

Probably a good idea to also learn a bit about pre-Black Friday sales events.

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If you enjoy reading about major shopping time periods such as black Friday, you may also have interest in the back to school shopping season.

By the way, do you know what is the meaning of a doorbuster sale?  A doorbuster is a very low-priced item designed to draw people into a store, on special sale days such as Black Friday. Shoes and apparel being sold at a loss to the retailer are common during doorbuster events.  The clothing store is fine with taking a loss on certain products in the hopes that you will continue shopping once you get inside the store.  The doorbuster sale leads you "into the store".  The goal of the apparel retailer is then for you to hopefully "stay in the store", and buy other product that is sold at a profit to the store.

Many consumers understand the concept that the retailer has in mind.  However, this does not slow the buyers interest in the sales item.  Some consumers have strong focus... They will pick up the deeply discounted product and then leave the store with only that item.  Black Friday sales are notorious for deep discounts including fantastic door buster deals.  This is one of the reasons that black-Friday is so exciting to many consumers of fashion.