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Originally Posted by Djeffery
A lot of these stores are probably realizing that the customers will adjust their shopping habits. A store like Best Buy, what are you going there to buy that you just gotta have it right now at 8pm on a Wednesday that you won't wait until tomorrow during the day if you can get there, or until the weekend? Is it life and death that Walmart be open until 11 or midnight? That Metro or some other grocery store was open overnight? Sure it was nice to be able to pop into a store at whatever hour was convenient for me, but that's just it, it was convenient, but I'm still going to need groceries so I'm obviously going to shop when they are open. I'm sure staffing played a role in these hours cutbacks a couple years ago, but I think now the stores just realized they just don't need to be open and are saving money.
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I can live without stores being open to midnight but 6 pm closings are inconvenient from a consumer standpoint... most people who work, go to school, etc. during the day will typically not have an easy time making it to the store before it closes at 6.
6 pm closings just make it more likely that I will try to buy online from Amazon or wherever instead of having to adjust my schedule to make it to Best Buy or wherever before it closes.