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Originally Posted by Hellmark
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.
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Well, the problem is that I live in a Southern state where everyone just ASSUMES there's no business to be had on Sunday.
Hell, YOU are assuming there was no business to be had on Sunday, even though I am
telling you there were 20+ people lined up wanting to get in. And probably another 50+ that simply didn't bother to wait around. (Certainly the grocery store was packed with 200+ folks. How many of those would have trickled in to Borders before and after shopping if they could. And because this is a FANCY WHOLE FOODS store, we get there at the wee hours of the morning because otherwise it's literally too full to move around with any ease.)
The "no business to be had on Sunday" is held as such an article of truth that people ignore reality rather than change their beliefs. Not to pick on you or anything, but if you hear about 20 waiting customers and say "eh, not enough to be worth staffing the store with a couple of folks", then you deserve to close your doors forever because you aren't trying at that point.
And by "you", I mean Borders.
