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Then, this special day is for you. Buy Nothing Day is a 24 hour moratorium on holiday shopping. It was created as a protest against the commercialism of this most sacred of holidays. Aside from abstaining from shopping on this day, we suggest you reflect upon the true meaning of Christmas. Is Buy Nothing Day effective? Origin of Buy Nothing Day: The brainchild of Ted Dave from Vancouver Canada, this special day is promoted by a group called "Adbusters". This holiday is celebrated in Canada, the United States, and some European countries.
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The term "Cyber Monday" was created by marketing companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005, in a Shop.org press release entitled "'Cyber Monday Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year".[1] According to the Shop.org/Bizrate Research 2005 eHoliday Mood Study, "77 percent of online retailers said that their sales increased substantially on the Monday after Thanksgiving, a trend that is driving serious online discounts and promotions on Cyber Monday this year (2005)". In 2013, Cyber Monday online sales grew by 20.6% over the previous year, hitting a record $2.29 billion.[2] Cyber Monday has become an international marketing term used by online retailers in Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. Origin of term[edit] United States[edit] Black Friday (shopping) The day's name originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy and disruptive pedestrian and vehicle traffic which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.[5][6] Use of the term started before 1961 and began to see broader use outside Philadelphia around 1975.
Later an alternative explanation was made: that retailers traditionally operated at a financial loss ("in the red") from January through November, and "Black Friday" indicates the point at which retailers begin to turn a profit, or "in the black".[5][7] For large retail chains like Walmart, their net income is positive starting from January 1, and Black Friday can boost their year to date net profit from $14 billion to $19 billion. [citation needed] A crowded shopping center on Black Friday The news media have long described the day after Thanksgiving as the busiest shopping day of the year.[4] In earlier years, this was not actually the case.
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