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From: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Sunday openings
Message-ID: <606@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 13:25:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 13:25:47 1986
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Reply-To: andrews@ubc-cs.UUCP (Jamie Andrews)
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Organization: UBC Department of Computer Science, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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In article <709@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
>Consider your local supermarket.  Saturday is such an incredibly busy
>day right now.  It's the only day the parking lot is full.  In fact, with
>Sunday shopping, they might get away with a parking lot 1/2 the size!
>...
>You only see an immediate effect.  It's true that the need to stay
>competitive requires everybody to switch at once.  But you miss the
>forest for the trees.  This is a side effect of retailers doing something
>that the customers truly want.

     I see your point, that in fact even if everyone opened on
Sunday it would have a net positive effect on *some* stores.
However, (a) I'd like some credit for having recognized this as a
possibility! and (b) I don't think it would have a net positive
effect on those stores which don't have the expenses you mention.

>            ...  If you want to have kids, it's fully accepted that you
>have to reconcile your job and your desire to be with them.  If
>an unemployed worker will serve people on Sunday and you won't, why do
>you demand laws to protect your vested interest?

     Why do we demand that the market take its course even at
the expense of increased misery to unemployed workers who *must*
work Sunday or not work at all?  This gets into economic arguments
which I don't have the background to engage in, but I just don't
believe that the all-holy Market must take precedence over every
other aspect of life.

--Jamie.
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