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Originally Posted by anamardoll
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.  |
Yeah, there was a line that day, because they were closing, but how many would have been there normally? When my family had our store, we ended up closing on sundays, because there just wasn't enough business. Saturday had shortened hours as well. Some other nearby stores would be busy, notably the grocery stores, but most were a ghost town. In my experience, weekends, people often hurry up and do their chores, so they can do other things. If they're out shopping, do they also want to stop off and look at other stores on the way home, or get the crap done so they can watch a movie, or see the ballgame?