Ok, and I work at Gap Chevy Chase and we are DEAD Sunday morning as are the other stores near us. Maybe your stores are in demand. Maybe your area is a strip mall. Maybe you open before 11am. Maybe your city is easier to get to than Chevy Chase. Not all stores are BUSY every Sunday morning. |
That store opens at 11 AM - which probably means employees are there at least 1 hour early to stock, set up registers, etc. |
Isn't Walmart open 24/7? |
Very true. World doesn't revolve around me, I know. But I drop off DD at 8. I have from 8-11 to do errands. I can't wait to start at 10 sometimes then be back by 1/ for pickup. So I don't go. There must be others like me. People who get out early, ppl with flex jobs. I see them at grocery stores. If only they opened at 9 or 9:30. Ah well. |
Wow, I'm the OP and amazed this became a 4 page thread. I don't know why this is so controversial - as I said in my OP, we go to religious services & religious ed. On Sundays actually. But we also need to run errands, and waiting until 11am or noon seems bizarre, especially if the mall is already full of people (which has been true on the two occasions I've done this recently.)
We wound up at Tysons, later than I would have liked, desperately trying to find sneakers that would fit my 7yo's wide feet before he had a sports activity later in the day. I didn't get to return the skirt or ponder any home goods or buy a new eyeliner. Personally I think these times are a throwback to an era when most women didn't work. |
It's amusing to me that so many people think retailers are voluntarily giving employees every Sunday morning off for church when American retailers can't even find it in their heart to allow all of their employees to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner.
To the OP, I can only assume it's a cost-benefit analysis type thing. I've been to the Target off of 50 on a Sunday morning around the time it opened, and it was empty. Then again, I imagine it would be even more empty on a Wednesday morning at that time, though I have never been. |
There are people that work retail, work at restaurants/fast food, etc. Don't assume everyone works an office job of some sort. |
These stores/malls are NOT opening late for religious reasons. Do you really think these companies care about anything other than money? It is business. Why do you think stores are open on Thanksging day? It's not to be mean to employees; it's purely to make money. |
What kinds of errands do you do that require going to a mall? |
I would find stores that aren't in a mall. I purchase all 4 of those things without going to a mall. There are plenty of stores - Dick's, Modell's, Sports Authority - that open before noon on Sunday. |
I bet that tiny little town didn't have the high percentage of dual full time working parent families that the DC metro area does. |