reohn2 wrote:One thing I've never understood is why anyone wants a shop open 24hours a day.
If you can't do your shopping between 8am and 8pm possibly 10pm you really are in dire straights .
Two things
- Shopping hours mean planning.
This is particularly obvious around Christmas, when the shops do actually close for nearly 24 hours. This tends to result in the gross over purchase of basic good (quite aside from the over consumption we often see). People don't plan any more - the mobile phone has made such things unnecessary. No postcard saying "meet me under the clock at Euston station at ten past two", nowadays you just phone when you get there.
- Shopping hours follow society
And since society is going to hell in a handcart, so are shopping hours. Apparently everything has to be 24/7/52, and if you're not plugged in then ... something...
Personally I have found it useful at times, and since I used to live in London I got used to it. Indeed it's not that long ago that I cycled to $supermarket on to find it closed, I just don't think about opening hours. Particularly useful when returning from a long journey for instance...