Thank God it’s Black Friday! Or not! Discounts do not get bigger than this as the sale event of the year kicks off in the United States. But it is no longer restricted to America. Black Friday, which falls on 25 November, has become a global phenomenon, and India has, of course, jumped onto the bandwagon. Retailers, both online and offline, launch the Black Friday sales, a day after Thanksgiving, which has been observed in the US since 3 October 1789. It was the day President George Washington named Thursday, 26 November 1789, as an official holiday of “sincere and...