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#90 Money2Byrne Black Friday Special (Pocket Change)
Category: Business
Duration: 00:06:59
Publish Date: 2025-11-28 12:25:14
Description:

Black Friday might be the biggest shopping day of the year… but it didn’t start that way.

In fact, the real origin of Black Friday has nothing to do with bargain TVs or midnight queues it began decades earlier, in a way almost nobody knows.


In this Money2Byrne Pocket Change Special, David W Byrne breaks down the wild true story of how Black Friday got its name, why police invented the term, why retailers originally hated it, and how it somehow transformed into a global shopping event worth billions.


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