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From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca (Tom Zougas)
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <1989Dec29.113120.6892@me.toronto.edu>
Organization: Mechanical Engineering, U of Toronto
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Date: 29 Dec 89 16:31:20 GMT

Someone had brought up the point about malls forcing stores to open.
I know (for a fact) that the TD Center _forces_ some of its stores
to be open on Saturday. Saturday is the slowest day for a mall located
in the basement of a downtown office tower.

Extending this to what would happen if Sunday shopping were allowed
completely: stores located in malls (and we all know that malls
are the backbone of urban life :-) would be forced to open on Sundays,
even if the owners wanted them closed. This is not giving the store-owner
the freedom of selling his wares when he feels like it. As a matter of fact
if business is slow on forced days of opening, the owner will be forced
to raise prices to compensate for the overhead.

So what do people, who believe in freedom of opening whenever one desires,
think about this forced opening. Notice that it is now the employer who is
being made to do something (possibly) against his/her will, rather than
the employee.

Tom.
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