I have no problems with stores being closed. I don't tug on the door incessantly, bang on the door violently, or call up the store's number bitching about how I was inconvenienced by the store being close and am going to now have my high-priced (and fictional) lawyer sue the hell out of whomever was responsible.
But...and this is an important point....is it too much to ask that a store actually be open during their posted hours? I went to a local shop today that deals with my phone provider, merely wanting to purchase a new protective case for my phone, as the old one is falling apart. And wouldn't you know it? The door was locked.
Mind you, this was not five minutes before close. This was a full 18 minutes before close. And I knew what I wanted, and it would have taken from 30 seconds to (maybe) 5 minutes for my entire transaction. But it's not even like there was someone there to bitch to. The entire place was locked up tighter than a drum, with no vehicles in the parking lot, and the lights off. No note on the door saying, sorry, folks, we had to go. However, their posted store hours did say they were open till 5 on Saturdays. It was 4:42. As if that wasn't enough, they actually had a HUGE banner above their store front proclaiming "NEW SATURDAY HOURS! 10 AM - 5 PM!" The kind of banner you could have easily read from a block away. At night. In the fog. Yeah, that kind of banner. And yet...they weren't.
Fuckers.
But...and this is an important point....is it too much to ask that a store actually be open during their posted hours? I went to a local shop today that deals with my phone provider, merely wanting to purchase a new protective case for my phone, as the old one is falling apart. And wouldn't you know it? The door was locked.
Mind you, this was not five minutes before close. This was a full 18 minutes before close. And I knew what I wanted, and it would have taken from 30 seconds to (maybe) 5 minutes for my entire transaction. But it's not even like there was someone there to bitch to. The entire place was locked up tighter than a drum, with no vehicles in the parking lot, and the lights off. No note on the door saying, sorry, folks, we had to go. However, their posted store hours did say they were open till 5 on Saturdays. It was 4:42. As if that wasn't enough, they actually had a HUGE banner above their store front proclaiming "NEW SATURDAY HOURS! 10 AM - 5 PM!" The kind of banner you could have easily read from a block away. At night. In the fog. Yeah, that kind of banner. And yet...they weren't.
Fuckers.
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