Washington, Nov 23 (THAINDIAN NEWS) The phrase Cyber Monday refers to the Monday, which immediately follows the Black Friday. The Black Friday is actually the ceremonial kick-off of the holiday online shopping season in the United States between Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Whereas Black Friday is associated with traditional retail shop sales, “Cyber Monday” denotes a busy day for retailers based on the Internet. Cyber Monday is the ‘Black Friday’ for the online shopping portals. The logic behind Cyber Monday is that consumers would return to their offices after the Black Friday weekend, and make those purchases online that they were not able to make in stores, due to the crowd in the retail shops.

Also people are not able to make online purchases from their homes because they might not be having a decent enough Internet speed. So after the weekend when they return to their offices on Monday, then they continue with their online shopping from there.

The sales are more on Monday and not over the Black Friday weekend as Monday is the 1st working day after the Black Friday. The internet connection at home is generally not good, so when people go back to work then at the high speed Internet connection at their work-places, they shop to their heart’s content, at the online shopping portals.