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| Thread ID: 38618 | 2003-10-13 02:06:00 | Why another computer shop open 7 days | crazymagi (4724) | Press F1 |
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| 182736 | 2003-10-15 20:26:00 | "Because Sunday is a day of rest, apparently." Yeah right |
Chris Randal (521) | ||
| 182737 | 2003-10-15 23:08:00 | I quote the great Tom Peters: "God help you if you are open when the customer is around." They'd be busier on Sundays than weekdays. Lots of stores are closed on Mondays to make up for it. I have friends with a chain of retails stores (Curtain Supermarket, so home renovation, etc market) and they are busiest on weekends, dead quiet during the week. Weekdays work best for them for staff training, etc. Don't really understand what crazymagi means about finance in NZ? BTW, it is illegal to work in some Pacific nations. Consumption of alcohol is banned on Sunday so they get super drunk from Friday through Midnight Saturday and are still pretty shabby on Sundays (seen it in action for myself). robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 182738 | 2003-10-15 23:29:00 | Yeah Robo, and do you know who was responsible for the "no fun on Sunday" policy of most of the Pacific Islands? The missionaries! And most of them were Poms. The same people who have been dictating our law foer the past 150 years. Pity we can't deport them. Jack |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 182739 | 2003-10-15 23:53:00 | I know, believe me, I know. They screwed up a lot of things. Many places that were pseudo-colonised ended up with a bizarre combination of Christianity and their own beliefs. In Tuvalu the noise of them sweeping leaves around the houses is deafening at daybreak. They do this because the missionaries said they had to (but it also helps reduce places for dengue fever mosquitoes to breed, happy coincidence but I suspect not design). It has messed up a lot of places. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 182740 | 2003-10-16 03:51:00 | "Looks like the only people on Tonga who don't go to church on Sundays are the Seventh Day Adventists." "Well, actually they do too, because they have this quarrel about the Date Line..." Radio documentary And if you look at the map, you can see why: Tonga sits between the 180 degree meridian and the "adjusted" dateline where it does a big jig to get round Fiji. I'm not surprised some Sabbath-sensitive folk think they've been dumped in the wrong day. My favourite shopping story was from the days in the UK where the only things you were allowed to sell on Sundays were "perishables" (fresh food and newspapers). A furniture store near me opened selling turnips for 800 pounds or so, with a free suite of furniture thrown in. It lasted about two weeks before the lawyers and police dropped on them. Argus |
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