Shops participating in Black Friday 2021 – from Amazon to ASOS

Many of us use the Black Friday sales as an opportunity to snap up affordable gifts before Christmas.

The promotion also offers the chance to treat yourself to a variety of goodies too – from tech discounts to beauty bargains.

The sales always fall after Thanksgiving, which is a national holiday celebrated in the United States.

This year, Black Friday is on November 26.

In the week leading up to the event, you can expect to see plenty of discounts online and in store.

Then on November 29, there are even more reductions on Cyber Monday.

As Black Friday is still a few weeks away, some stores are yet to reveal whether they will participating in Black Friday 2021.

However, these outlets are likely to be running discounts and promotions later this month.

Supermarkets

Tech retailers

High-street stores

Online stores

Travel companies

Many people assume the shopping event is called Black Friday because it’s the day shops “move into the black”.

This means the businesses are financially profitable.

But the reason the shopping event is called Black Friday is actually because so many people partake in it accidents and sometimes violence occurs.

The first recorded use of the name was in 1966 by Earl Apfelbaum, a dealer in rare stamps.

He said: “Black Friday is the name that the Philadelphia Police Department gave to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day.

“It is not a term of endearment for them. Black Friday officially opens the Christmas shopping season in centre city.

“It usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks as the downtown stores are mobbed from opening to closing.”

Thousands of people flooded to Philadelphia int he 1950s, causing chaos in the streets.

The shopping extravaganza began as a US tradition but has since gained momentum around the world.