BASSETERRE, St. Kitts – BLACK FRIDAY, the unofficial holiday embraced by most across the world in honour of the impressive bargains offered by many business entities.
Courts, in honouring this tradition, will be having a massive blowout sale this coming weekend with bargains of up to 50 percent off selected items across the store and giveaways with the purchase of selected items.
The sale starts with a 15 percent discount on equalizers, radios, mini systems, and subwoofers, with 20 percent discount on items such as LG plasmas, LCD televisions, Wii console games, and game accessories.
A 25 percent markdown will be on furniture – living room suites, king sized bed frames, dining sets, and love seats.
A 30 percent price reduction is being offered on selected whirlpool refrigerators, 9 cycle Frigidaire washers, printers, flashdrives, notebook bagpack, and rugs.
A 50 percent price cut will be offered on all baby items, from car seats to strollers to cribs – everything baby.
Dell, Sony, Acer, and HP laptops start at just EC$999.
Customers who purchase cameras will receive a free camera case, those who purchase laptops will get a laptop bag and sleeve free of charge.
Shoppers purchasing anything for EC$499 or more will receive two free gifts and triple entries for ‘stash of cash’ draw.
Stash for cash is a monthly promotion that has been in effect since October of the year which entails one coupon entry into the draw for every EC$99 spent with a chance of winning up to EC$15 000.
Two winners are selected at random each month and the promotion is expected to end at the end of December.
All purchases come with a zero down payment with no payments until February 2012.
Courts’ Black Friday sale stemmed from the shopping tradition in the United States where the day after thanksgiving, most businesses would offer major sales whether storewide or on selected items.
From this backdrop, the decision was made to bring Black Friday to the Federation and have a blowout sale before Christmas as a means of giving back to the public.
Black Friday is the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.
On this day, most major retailers open extremely early, often at 4 a.m., or earlier, and offer promotional sales to kick off the shopping season.
Black Friday is not actually a holiday.
The term Black Friday originated in Philadelphia, where it originally was used to describe the heavy pedestrian and vehicle traffic, which would occur on the day after Thanksgiving.
Use of the term began in Philadelphia, and then spread to other cities around 1975.
The earliest known reference to ‘Black Friday’ to refer to the day after Thanksgiving was made in a 1966 publication in Philadelphia:
“Black Friday is the name which the Philadelphia Police Department has given to the Friday following Thanksgiving Day. ‘Black Friday’ officially opens the Christmas shopping season in center city, and it usually brings massive traffic jams and over-crowded sidewalks.”
The blowout sale start tomorrow (Nov. 25) at 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. The store will open at 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, and Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
