"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article > ,
>> Dave Smith > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't think anyone has more money to spend each week, but now the
>>> stores have to pay people to man their stores 7 days a week instead
>>> of 6.
>>
>> For a large store with 27 full time employees who used to work over a
>> six day week, if there is no more business, then the store should need
>> to have 27 full time employees, but spread over all seven days. Net
>> change is zero.
>>
>> For a very small store with the owner being the sole employee, there
>> would be a problem since they would no longer have a day off.
>
> But I thought someone said it was because people were going over the
> border to buy booze? Surely if they are now getting the custom, they are
> better off?

Many of the stores here in CT are small with the owner and one or two
employees at best. Opening longer hours and an additional day would be a
burden. They have their "regulars" and little sales are lost across the
border, ten miles away in the case of my town.