Morocco’s Black Friday Sales Draw Crowds Despite Covid-19 Restrictions

Tempted by the significant discounts offered by the major retailers, customers did not hesitate, going so far as to defy the barrier measures such as social distancing and the instruction to avoid enclosed spaces to do their shopping, particularly in Casablanca and Rabat, reported the Arabic-language site Hespress.com.

Covid-19 obliging, they had to consent to endless hours to be able to access certain open stores to do their annual shopping.
This promotional event made its entry in Europe in 2013 and then in the rest of the world, the site recalls, pointing out that originally, the expression "Black Friday" appeared in September 1869 to designate a financial crash in the United States, due to the aggressive manipulation of the price of gold by two businessmen.

But it was in the mid-1960s that the expression made a comeback to designate, this time, the traffic jams both on the roads and in the stores the day after Thanksgiving, which always falls on a Friday. As many Americans still have a day off that day to make the bridge, they take advantage of it to start their Christmas shopping.