Re:America’s Last Ban on Sunday Shopping
by tormeh on Sunday February 08, 2015 @07:03PM
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It's a game theory thing. It's more efficient if we all shop during a limited time and the retail workers then go home. However, if one shop is open when the other is not then people stop restricting their purchasing times and go to the open shop, forcing the competitor to also be open all the time. End result is lots of retail workers wasting time while waiting for customers around the clock.
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Re:America’s Last Ban on Sunday Shopping
by alistairSH on Sunday February 08, 2015 @09:03PM
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I wonder how that plays out in the internet (Amazon) age? I do most of my retail shopping on the weekends. Cut out 50% of my available shopping time, and it's just another incentive to buy online.
> It's a game theory thing. It's more efficient if we all shop during a limited time and the retail workers then go home.
Depends on what you want to optimize / what the bottleneck is.
If you have your shops open around the clock, you can use the real estate more efficiently.