Tag: Black Friday
ZeroEyes research reports trend of increased gun incidents during holidays
November 14, 2024SSN Staff
PHILADELPHIA — ZeroEyes revealed that its Holiday Gun Incidents in Retail Facilities Report has identified a disturbing trend involving gun-related violence in U.S. retail locations.
The research by the Gun Violence Research Center shows that, during the 2022 and 2023 holiday seasons, from Black Friday to New Year’s Eve, retail settings including malls, grocery stores, convenience stores, and gas stations experienced a large spike in gun-related incidents, with an average of five per...
The tale of 'Black Friday' plus 9 safety tips
November 26, 2019Ginger Hill
Did you know the first recorded use of the term “Black Friday” was used to describe a financial crisis in the 1800s? How's that for some Thanksgiving trivia to share with family and friends around the turkey this year?
History of 'Black Friday'
As the story goes, the gold market crashed on Friday, September 24, 1869 when two notoriously ruthless Wall Street financiers, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, teamed up to buy as much of the nation's gold as they possibly could, according...