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Originally Posted by anamardoll
I'm sad that Borders is closing, because it's a tremendous loss of jobs, but also very frustrated that management didn't do enough to forestall this.
This Sunday we went grocery shopping and -- look! -- there's a big Borders right across the street. Let's go see the new Kobos while we still can!
Oh, look. It's Sunday so the store isn't open until 11. And the groceries in the car are getting hot in the sun. Drat.
There were literally people lining up and on the outside benches -- at least 20 people waiting -- to be let in when the store opened in 30 minutes. And you know that for every one person that bothers to wait, another 5 just go home without bothering.
Apparently that particular Borders felt that catering to the early morning grocery shopping crowd on a weekend was less important than making sure all its employees were GETTIN' RITE WIFF JESUS. Despite the fact that I'll bet half the employees don't go to church and would prefer to get a paycheck to feed their families. Gah.
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I doubt it has anything to do with it. I mean, be honest, if you're the sort that you are religious enough to change business hours around church, you'd also be more likely to try and keep the sabbath holy. They probably didn't open until 11, because business that early just wasn't strong enough to make it worth the expense. Yeah, people are off and don't goto work, but at the same time, how many people sleep in on sundays? If your customer base is at church, or sleeping, or just can't be arsed enough to get out of the house any earlier, why be open? As far as the line, well, they're people who wanted to check out the store before it closed and get the good bargains before they sold. Any time you have a store going out of business like that, people line up, regardless of when the store business hours are.