Those of you who are are regular internet users will no doubt have seen various sales under the “Black Friday” banner.<\/p>\n
But what is Black Friday? Where did it come from?<\/p>\n
We have the Americans to thank for this “shopping holiday” which takes place every year the day after Thanksgiving, according to Wikipedia<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Since 1932, it has been regarded as the beginning of the Christmas shopping season in the U.S, with dozens of retailers opening after hours to accommodate shoppers.<\/p>\n As a result, it has routinely been the busiest shopping day of the year.<\/p>\n It has never actually been given public holiday status, although several states have now adopted Bank\/Governmental holidays.<\/p>\n So why does this affect you in South Africa?<\/p>\n The world was tired of the Americans getting in on all of the action and global retailers were only happy to oblige.<\/p>\n The day has only snowballed in popularity, which is why we now have dozens of South African stores preparing shoppers for Black Friday nearly a week in advance.<\/p>\n We explore how Black Friday came about and what it means for South Africans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":111395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,1197,2163,23349],"class_list":["post-111393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-black-friday","tag-south-africa","tag-what-is"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111397,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111393\/revisions\/111397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read: The best early Black Friday tech and game deals in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"