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From: ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig)
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Subject: Re: A *real* problem
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Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 11:26:59 EDT
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> These operations insult women -- they are stating, by their hours of
> operation, that they expect that evey household has a non-working member
> that can come to them during the hours that they are open, and that
> person has traditionally been the "housewife". 

That's one view.  Another is that they get enough of their business
from contractors or other people that are buying from them as part of
their job that they don't need to expand their hours to cater to the
general public.

Another possibility is that the store owner wants to work standard
hours, too.