Black Friday is a term that means “The beginning of the country's Christmas shopping season”, since 1952. Black Friday gives shoppers a discount and great deal that they can’t pass up. Shoppers spent $1.9 billion online on Thanksgiving Day and another $3.3 billion on Friday, in 2016 alone, according to Adobe. The shopping even increased in 2017. Black Friday 2017 was all about digital sales. Shoppers spent a record $5 billion in 24 hours. That marks a 16.9% increase in dollars spent online, compared with Black Friday 2016, according to Adobe.
Black Friday injures people every year it is practically a tradition of its own. In 2008, two people were shot. In 2010, A Toys for Tots volunteer in Georgia was stabbed by a crazed shopper. In 2011, a woman pepper sprayed her way into the front of the line. On Black Friday 2012, two people were shot outside a Walmart in Florida over a parking spot. In 2013, a Black Friday shopper stole a tv, fought an officer trying to get it back and tied the officer to his car and dragged him away. The list is endless, shoppers are crazy for the great deals. They are so crazy, they even stay outside of the store on Thursday night before Black Friday.
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Many staff members reported that stores are making unreasonable demands on staff, including requiring them to work under the threat of being fired. In 2008, a 34 year old Walmart employee, Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death as crazed customers rushed inside the store. As soon as the police arrived, the police tried to save the employee, but wild customers kept almost trampling the officers. This was the first time an employee has died during Black Friday sales. Overall, there have been 10 deaths and 111