Exactly so. Surely the whole point of retail is to be open when your customers are free to visit you? Which, for bikes shops, means being open when the customers are not at work!.
If your business depends on beneficiaries , then you can open 9 - 5 Mon - Fri. Beneficiaries have few time constariants.
But bike shops, I imagine, require customers with more disposable income. That means that the customers will mainly be shut away in their offices, factories etc during those times.
So, open when they are free to visit the shop. That doesn't mean working longer hours. Close when the customers are not likely to be there.
Myself, I am always going to be reluctant to take time off work to go to a bike shop. That leaves only Saturday morning - a time with many, many other calls upon it. The result - buying over the internet. Simply because, I can shop at the time that suits me, not the time that suits the shopkeeper. If you want my money - open at a time when I can be there.
Yet, the trade complain about people buying over the internet. None so blind ...
Perhaps they closed because they were never open when potential custoemr could attend them?
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