Posted by NCWayne on November 16, 2013 at 22:53:44 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Main Street Revisited posted by oldtanker on November 16, 2013 at 22:20:34:
I"m was born and raised just outside the city limits of Charlotte, a fairly large city. Outside Charlotte are a lot of smaller communities, towns, or whatever you want to call them that once had thriving downtown districts. Even at my young age of 45 I have seen exactly the same things you are describing happen around here. I think one of the main things, like you stated, was the refusal of the smaller businesses to change their hours to match the schedules of their customers. I mean how can someone drive to work an hour away, get off at 5, make it back home in traffic, and then go to the closest business (ie the small/main street shop) when the owners of said shop decided they were going to work "normal" hours and close their doors at 5 or even 6 PM. In the end it cost them a lot of money in business, and ultimately, for some, their entire business simply because they refused to meet an all important customer demand.
Heck even many of the large companies do the same thing. Around here the NAPA"s routinely close around 6 PM, while most of the other parts houses stay open until 9 or 10 PM. Personally I like shopping at my local NAPA because they more or less cater to commercial clients, but when I need something after business hours, I have no choice but to take my business elsewhere. I guess this works for NAPA simply because so large of a percentage of their customers are commercial garages -vs- individuals, but they could still pick up a lot more business simply by staying open an additional hour or two in the evenings.
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