brad@looking.UUCP (12/14/86)
I really don't know where the people who oppose Sunday openings shop, especially in December. Today at my supermarket at 6 PM every checkout had a line filling all the space to the aisles and the large parking lot was full even though all the other stores in the plaza were pretty much closed. Last Saturday I had to attend a wedding and could not make it back to town until after the markets closed. I had to get a subset of my usual Saturday goods at the 24 hour convenience store, at a higher price. Recently I just moved my offices (at no small expense) from the office tower in Waterloo's downtown mall. One of the contributing reasons for the move was the fact that there is a tremendous parking problem downtown. (I am often in weekends) It gets so bad that people actually have fist fights in the mall parking lot over parking spaces, and they have to have police standing guard to control trouble. In a current week, with extended xmas hours, there are 3 hours per weeknight and 9 hours (9-6) on saturday. That's 24 hours for the 9 to 5 worker. Adding Sunday gives 9 more hours, making it 33. That's a 37% increase in the number of hours and a cooresponding decrease in congestion. Just what, exactly, are you trying to prove by forcing people closed on Sunday, especially in December? Trying to get the xmas buying season pushed back even before Hallowe'en? -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473