The sky will still be dark when a bunch of stores open their doors on Black Friday in Hawaii for the traditional start of the holiday shopping season.

"So this is the biggest day of retail. We have to stack our stores. We have new releases, doorbusters, we bring it all out for Black Friday."

Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year- kicking off that Christmas shopping season. Here in Augusta, local shoppers lined up late Thursday night and early Friday morning to get in on those deals.

For decades, Black Friday has been one of the biggest shopping days of the year. The moniker was originally coined by retailers to indicate their shift from losses (in the red) to profits (in the black) thanks to holiday shopping demand.

Black Friday used to be a magical day for Bahynah Hughes. Hughes, who works at a health technology company in New York City, recalls waiting in her car at the mall parking lot as a teenager and rushing to jump in line as soon as other people started moving toward the doors.

Black Friday. One popular theory suggests that the term “Black Friday” comes from accounting jargon, where “in the red” means retailers are losing money, and “in the black” means turning a profit. Another explanation ties the name to the chaotic crowds and traffic jams that became synonymous with the event.