Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, has become a quasi-holiday in the United States that’s marked by consumer discounts, shopping, and violence, and it's grown and metastasized so much that Black Friday isn't a mere day anymore: it's a week,

In the 1950s, Philadelphia police used the term "Black Friday" to describe a day of chaos that ensued on the day after Thanksgiving, when mass crowds of suburban shoppers flooded the city before the Army-Navy football game held on the Saturday after the holiday every year.

Get your wallets ready folks, Black Friday is here and this year's deals may be some of the best yet. We've been covering these shopping events for a collective 15 years, so we don't say that lightly.