If shops want you to ‘shop local’…

[Alwayslostthedummy]

Why do they have such prohibitive opening hours?

We need to buy a new fridge/freezer, would prefer to shop local as I hate giving money to Currys etc because of bad experiences. Looking at the shops selling appliances within a 20 mile radius, all are closed on Sundays and a fair few closed Saturdays too!

Its the same in my local high street, there are a couple of nice fancy gifty type shops where I would buy presents/homewards/toys. One is closed all weekend and the other opens for 4 hours on Saturday.

AIBU to think businesses are missing a trick here? I don’t have any data on this but presume in a lot of cases those with spending power work during the week. Is it any wonder retail parks and online shopping is taking over?

The thread is about the opening hours of today not being right for the OP. So talking about how shops used to open seems to be a legitimate digression if you ask me.

They do fine on the limited hours, or they'd open longer.

Any business not making enough with such short hours would open longer so more people can access it. Unfortunately if they wait too long to do so, people get used to it being inaccessible and will have found somewhere else to go a lot of the time.

But yes, it's a bit silly, but their choice. Clearly they're not fussed about doing better with sales or they would.