@kaia We used to live under the assumption that people were in couples and one stayed home or worked part time, making it so small shopkeeps could keep "business hours" and not have to opt out of society in order to stay open. That went away and now they haven't adjusted.
On the other end of the spectrum, you get the US, where shops are expected to be open 13 hours a day, 7 days a week, and advertise being the people open on Christmas like it's a good thing.
@mrsaturday@kaia When I was a small child my town still basically closed down on Sunday, incidentally. I don't think even McDonald's was open. If you drove through town on a Sunday night, the only business lights on were the gas station. This is only tangentially related but it's interesting to think about how attitudes about business hours changed so much in my lifetime.
@sun@kaia@mrsaturday in the UK this was and remains common. Sunday shopping laws on the books, it was extremely bad if your electricity ran out on a Sunday as you’d have an entire day without electricity until you could go to the local shop for a top up card
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Want to visit your bank? Forget it.
Want to contact customer support? Hope you have enough time at lunch break.
Haircut? Hope they work on weekends.
Visiting your doctor? Haha, take the day off.
Doing any government-related stuff? Surely you have yearly time off left, right?
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