Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general Subject: Re: Sunday openings Message-ID: <155@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 03:25:10 EST Article-I.D.: van-bc.155 Posted: Wed Dec 3 03:25:10 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 3-Dec-86 07:03:53 EST References: <2819@watdcsu.UUCP> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Distribution: can Organization: Public Access Unix, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 61 > > Sunday openings are the worst idea around. In the short run it may > be better for the store to open if the competitors don't, but in the > long run everyone will be open, and there is no advantage. In fact, > there are huge disadvantages. i.e. increased overhead for sales staff > without increased sales, a lot more time spent away from family by > the people who must work on Sunday. > > The idea that being open more days will increase sales is plainly > idiotic in the long run. This is like saying that if every store > stayed open 24 hours every day, sales would increase even more. > This is a valid arguement only for the short period of time immediately after the conversion to Sunday shopping or to any longer period of shopping hours. However in the long run it is a fallacy. Stores DO increase their sales through natural growth that would have occurred anyway. It's just that with longer hours they don't have to build more stores to service that growth. Less physical plant equals less capital outlay. Less operating costs. In the long term your debt service ratio drops because your sales increase against your capital costs, and operating costs. The bottom line --- more profit. > I have no particular interest in keeping stores closed on Sunday > because it is the day or rest, long term analysis just indicates > that there are no advantages to staying open. > If it's such a bad idea why has no area that has switched to Sunday openings decided that is a bad idea and switched back? Why the big rush to change by large chains that operate that way in other areas? > Protest Sunday openings, shop at stores which don't open Sundays. > If the same thing happens in Ontario that happened in BC you won't being doing much shopping! Almost ALL major stores are open seven days a week. In fact most of the large supermarkets are open 8:00 AM to 12:00 PM seven days a week (at least the ones that are doing well :-)). Get out of the last century. Life is too short to argue about trivial things like this. The long and short of it is that you will end up with seven day shopping, you will end up with supermarkets open from eight to twelve, you will end up with a larger number of "convience" stores open twenty four hours. It's just taking longer in some areas than others. But it is happening and it doesn't matter how much you complain about it. It WILL happen. BC switched over several years back. The interesting thing is that listening to the news reports from Ontario right now is like stepping back about three years. The same hackneyed arguements, the same innuendo's etc. But be hopeful after about six months everyone realized that the world wouldn't come to an end, that extended hours are convienent, and there hasn't been a peep since. Disclaimer - I very rarely shop on Sunday afternoon, I have better things to do. Me, I like grocery shopping 11:00 PM on Sunday's - the stores virtually empty, no waits at the till, park within feet of the door etc :-). -- Stuart Lynne Public Access Network - Vancouver BC UUCP: ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vi!van-bc!sl Mail: 225B Evergreen Dr., Port Moody, BC, Canada, V3H 1S1 Phone: 604-937-7532