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Black Friday’s a popular day for shopping.
There are sales in shops and online.
This year, shoppers spent $40 billion.
Black Friday started in the USA.
The holiday shopping period starts on Black Friday.
New York’s shops were busy again after the pandemic.
This year, prices went up a lot.
People are spending extra money on Black Friday.
They want some good deals.
In New York, there were many shoppers.
Christmas is making people spend, says Antonia Harris.
Shoppers often travel to New York for Black Friday.
They’re buying a lot this year.
So, we're, where, we've, we've already crossed that just by being in New York City."
Cheap products are often bad for the environment.
Things break quickly and people throw them away.
Greenpeace wants companies to change.
Celia Ojeda Martinez: "What Greenpeace is denouncing here today is not so much the consumers, who also have a role to play, but the big brands and big companies that continue to produce products that are less and less durable, of lower quality, with toxic products that end up polluting because they end up incinerated and in landfills."
Black Friday’s a problem for Greenpeace.
Companies want people to buy more.
To produce one pair of jeans, it takes 7,500 liters of water, which is the same amount of water a person drinks and consumes for seven years."
In the past, Black Friday was one day.
Now, there's Cyber Monday and December sales too.
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