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Holiday Hours
By businessbroad | December 2, 2007
Online, I find that I put in about 40-50% more hours during the holidays. Most brick and mortar retail stores seem to extend their hours by at least 20-30%, too. I’m curious, though, about independent retailers. Obviously, it’s the busy season, and obviously, it can be tough to work the extended hours. Do you do it, though? What factors into your decision to stay open extra late for holiday customers?
A local shop here actually decreases their hours, which is what made me start thinking about it. They close up shop around 5 when it starts to get dark, and they leave a fireplace DVD playing in the window with the dvd subtitle feature turned on to display the lyrics to Christmas music that accompanies the video. It’s actually very cool. Perhaps that’s the right attitude to take during this season.
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