The term ‘Black Friday’ wasn’t assimilated into the common vernacular until the early 1960s as a way for the Philadelphia Police Department to describe the horrible conditions they experienced on the day – heavy crowding and traffic jams became a permanent fixture of the day after Thanksgiving. However, a more romantic notion arose in response to the Philly PD, driven by the merchants in Philadelphian stores. In a time before computers simplified everything, accountants and bookkeepers used to use red ink to denote losses and black ink to denote profit. Thus, in an effort to erase the negative connotations of the term ‘Black Friday’, merchants suggested that Black Friday be referred to them turning a profit, getting out the black ballpoint pen and going ‘into the black’. In recent years, Black Friday has become notorious because of… fights, swearing, customers rifling through employee only areas, rioting crowds and people bleeding out on the floor.