Thanksgiving EIJV

Mayflower

102 English men women and children

showed the pilgrims how to grow crops/ was their interpreter / chose to live with them

donated 5 deers

Massasoit joined the pilgrims with 90 of his men

commemorate the defeat of the British army

October 3rd 1863 President Lincoln issued a proclamation declaring the last Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving Day

1924 Macy's department store started their Thanksgiving Day Parade

Detroit Lions came up with the idea of a Thanksgiving Day football game in order to boost dwindling attendance

the Congress finally made Thanksgiving Day a legal holiday when they did they moved the holiday up one week

flash sale

coupon

a steal

price bundling

price match

earlybird discount

in the black

rip off

bargain

splash out

ramp-up

pay through the nose

discount

sales

- discounted prices - the long lineups - the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season

in 1869

in a trade journal called factory management and maintenance

1951

Big Friday

Black Friday refers to retail stores that become profitable = they go in the black

no concrete evidence on who coined the term

factories had trouble getting the workers to show up on the day after Thanksgiving

didn't like the negative connotation

it's a myth

fall on

absenteeism

show up

were referring to

retailers

negative connotation

positive spin

reinvent