Sundays and some Saturdays at Forest Hill, some retailers around us close early. Some ten minutes, others up to half an hour early. This sucks. We are at the end of the mall so people looking our way see these closed shops and because we are set back they don’t even walk down to see if we are open.
Businesses do not grow by contracting. If these businesses are slow toward the end of the day they ought to fight for business. We, those of us at this end of the centre, could do it collectively. This type of positive action is better than them just closing ewarly as they do now.
It’s frustrating because most don’t care, they are branches of national brands and the local staff are happy to get off early.
We’re thinking we might really pump up the volume of our sound system for the last half hour on a Saturday and Sunday, to luire people into what could evolve into a party. Our view is that we need to embrace the problem and fix it for ourselves.
The head offices of some of those national brands might be interested to know that these store are closing early?