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【2022-06-05】
@whigzhou: There is a problem that I realized after I started working. It is not easy to find a suitable time for a haircut. All barbershops in this city are closed on Sundays, only open in the morning on Saturdays, and usually only open until 6 pm on weekdays , if you go at 5:30, you will almost certainly not get your turn, so it is not difficult to imagine that Saturday mornings are very busy. I went to a family yesterday, and sure enough, I waited two hours for my turn.
Not just barbershops, but most non-chain retail/service businesses,
This is obviously an inertial continuation of the Sabbath tradition. I have inquired about it. A few decades ago, observing the Sabbath was far stricter than it is now. You can’t buy anything on Sunday, let alone commercial and entertainment venues. The religious awareness of Australians today It is very weak, but this tradition seems to be still strong, at least in a small city like ours,
I inquired again yesterday to find out if merchants’ adherence to this tradition is entirely voluntary or if there is some kind of legislation or guild regulation at play, because my hunch is that if there is no regulation, there will always be one or two Merchants will capture the business opportunities, and the demand is obviously strong enough.
The result of my inquiry is that there is no regulation, and they are all voluntary. In fact, there are indeed a few barbers who provide services on weekends, but they do not open shops on the street, but solicit customers on Facebook and operate in their own homes. That kind, they are called private traders. However, their flexibility obviously did not affect the business habits of the barber shop. It is estimated that their scale is not enough to have a significant impact on the latter’s business.
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