photo: Vít Hassan for PrahaIN.cz/Lidl in Prague
We’ve noticed this several times over the past year. When a supermarket states on its social networks how it will or will not be open on a public holiday, it is bad. “Poor shop assistants. Why don’t you leave them at home,” people almost always write.
It wasn’t that long ago that we noticed when Lidl and Penny Market announced that they would be extending their opening hours. People protested that shops should be open only in the morning on Saturdays and quietly closed completely on Sundays, like, for example, Germans or Poles.
The Penny Market, which decided to keep its stores closed on Christmas Day, received a wave of praise. “Great. At least one chain is going the right way,” they rejoiced in the comments people. There were almost three hundred of them in total.
Lidl, on the other hand, received negative reactions. And it was due to the announcement that customers can enjoy New Year’s Eve shopping until five o’clock in the afternoon.
We wrote
At the end of May, Lidl announced that it was extending its opening hours from June 1. Some stores are now open until ten o’clock in the evening, in Prague…
Spoiled people?
However, in the case of December 31, it is a normal day when the law does not prohibit the opening of shops. They can be open at their discretion. Most of them close at six or an hour earlier.
For example, some Billy branches, which are located in the center of Prague, are open until seven in the afternoon, and at the Ruzyne airport even until nine in the evening.
“I don’t know, I think saleswomen are just people too. That it would be enough to be open until 15:00. People are really spoiled. I don’t understand them. Unfortunately, there are people who are annoying and even disgusting. They only go there because it’s open. Before, it was only Saturday morning and that was fine too,” appeared, for example in discussion.
Some pointed out that December 31 is a classic day when branches should normally be open until 10 p.m. Others agreed with the comment, insisting that three in the afternoon would be enough. Others would stay closed all day on New Year’s Eve.
But we know from our own experience that on the last day of December, the shops are full to bursting already in the morning.
Open until five is benevolent, Lidl claims
There were also those who, on the contrary, have no problem with opening. “How about taxi drivers, waitresses, waiters, bartenders, cooks in all those restaurants, bars and hotels? What about maids, receptionists or even road workers, train conductors, public transport drivers, workers in many factories that simply cannot be closed. For example, because of furnaces or various machines? What about the other professions that have to go to work, not to mention doctors and all those people from the IZS? Will you also cry for them and swear for them that they have to go to work?” wrote one of the discussants, for example. But others didn’t like his comment too much.
The administrator of the Lidl profile then repeated in the comments that similar opening hours are common and that in the case of a normal working day, such as New Year’s Eve, on the contrary, it is still benevolent.
He also caught it from the other debaters.
2024-01-02 00:15:39
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