Rumor, Legend and Myth

For your post-Thanksgiving reading pleasure, the urban-legend-busting folks over at Snopes.com reveal: Black Friday isn't the busiest shopping day of the year in the U.S.

(I hope next year they can get to work on dispelling the rumor that it's called 'Black Friday' because it's the day many retailers 'move into the black' on their books. The average business can not likely spend more than they make for ten-and-a-half months and still survive. Factor in how many retail stores have negative income the day after Christmas due to returns, and the theory just doesn't add up. I contend that it's the workers in the stores that call it Black Friday because of how miserable a day it is to work retail, and it wasn't named by the accountants securely hidden away from the public back at the home office.)