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From: dave@onfcanim.UUCP (Dave Martindale)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Sunday openings
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 10:48:03 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  3 10:48:03 1986
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I think it's rather ridiculous that most stores are open for only one
day on which I'm not working - Saturday.  I'm often working Thursday
and Friday evening, so evening openings aren't too useful to me.

I do much of my shopping for food in 24-hour convenience stores, since
they happen to be open when I go home from work and normal grocery
stores are not.  I would be very happy to find *one* regular grocery
store nearby that is open 'till midnight.  I don't want all of them
to be, I just would like one that kept different hours.  Why is it
necessary for all stores to maintain the same open hours?

If you want to restrict stores' open days for the benefit of their
employees, why not simply decree that each individual store must be closed
one day a week (or make it two days a week, which must be "better" than
things are now)?  Then storeowners could decide for themselves which
days they would remain open.  At least a few would choose to be open
both Saturday and Sunday, making me happy, and nobody would have to
work more than 5 days a week, making the workers happy.