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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m glad someone posted about this because it’s a peeve. I keep encountering stores that usually close at 7 or 8 closing 30-60 minutes early in a regular basis. If I’m trying to shop after work and on the night when my kids don’t have an activity or I don’t have evening work commitments, it can be almost impossible or take weeks of hit-or-miss attempts. There are plenty of things that aren’t easily ordered online or offer free in-store returns but expensive return shipping. I miss the pre-Covid hours.

We were recently in a part of Asia with a huge mall culture and stores were open until 9:30-10:00 pm even on weekend nights. It was more convenient to go to *another continent* for my usual cosmetics stock-up and the kids’ back-to-school shopping than to go to my walkable-from-home, massive outdoor shopping center in the US.[/quote]

If you and OP are both peeved about this: Has either of you complained to the store management? Or just vented here?

The latter does nothing to change anything. The former at least is an effort to call out the store and let it know that paying customers walked away from their closed doors.

It's sad that the OP and others here leap to the assumption that the problem is "teenagers/college kids" selfishly closing stores to run out to have their fun. What a low opinion some here have of teens/young adults' work ethic. I know quite a few college age kids with retail jobs and they are conscientious employees who wouldn't do anything as stupid as shut early to run off and play. It's very insulting to tar a whole age bracket with the brush of "they're just lazy party kids," which...is what OP's post does.

Plus: Both PP above and OP seem blissfully unaware that getting retail workers right now is extremely difficult. Not just a little bit hard. Immensely difficult. It's been that way for a while and likely to be that way for a long while to come. Read some coverage of U.S. business, folks. It's inconvenient for shoppers but believe me, retail store owners and managers would LOVE to stay open all hours and be fully staffed so there's someone there to take your returns you ordered online and let you try on clothes etc. They would much rather be open. But until you can magically create a workforce, you have to suck it up. [/quote]

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