[Saint John] Retail Thread

[thefishingnut]

The malls have fixed hours for their retail shops, and when the doors to the mall are open. They can give extended hours to grocery and coffee shops.

There is just no chance business people are going to go home and then come back uptown to shop when they're there 5 days a week and can just spend a few minutes shopping at lunch or before going home. Even at the other malls there is a very short block of time in the evenings where people are shopping - we do short duration mall shows at times, and it's hardly worth it manning the booths in the evening, the few shoppers around tend to be power shopping for groceries and necessities, not browsing.