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From: greid@adobe.UUCP (Glenn Reid)
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Subject: Re: A *real* problem
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Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 03:06:23 EDT
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>Stores and any other retail businesses that have hours like 9-5 on
>weekdays and either limited or no Saturday or Sunday hours.
>
>The vast majority of people who work have jobs that fall in the area of
>9 AM - 5 PM weekdays; even if they have flexitime or different hours, the
>time to travel between the workplace and the store/business location would
>make it next to impossible to patronize businesses that have these
>limited hours of operation. In many cases, there are no competitors that

THAT IS WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO FOR A LIVING, TOO!  THEY WORK 9-5!!

Perhaps some people would enjoy working 12-8, or whatever, but it is not
clear that people would even bother to patronize a store that stayed open
later, unless *all* stores stayed open later, in which case no one would
want to operate a service/specialty shop, because they would have to work 
until 8 every night.  These people are only partly there to please you/us.
They are mainly there to make money, and if they make money during the
day, they may not be concerned with the people for whom it would be more
convenient to shop at night.

I do agree with you that it is a nuisance, but don't forget that these
are people working just like you and me.  You just have to plan more, or
even use the Yellow Pages and find out when they are open/closed.  The
chances are, if you called on of these stores up and asked them if they
could stay open an hour longer that night, so you could come in and spend
$300.00, they would love it.  Who knows what is the right thing.  Maybe
it is them who have the right to work 9-5, and it is the rest of us who
are doing the wrong thing by working when we should be shopping in their
stores........

Glenn Reid