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be WILL SUNDAY shopping prove so popular
on #7 among the majority of shoppers that some
stores will decide to stop traditional Friday
night openings?
One merchant

who growing and not, as some

thinks that’s likely is Neil have suggested, contrac-

f Ryan, sales manager of ting.
on Burnaby’s Don Ryan Fur- “Wei may just stop
‘ : niture. opening Friday nights," he

stid of his 25-year-old
business. ‘‘People have two
days to work with (in terms
of shopping). Before it was

“If last Sunday. was any
indication,’’ he says,
“Sunday: shopping is ter-

rific ee Friday night and Saturday.
Sunday shopping. ke Now, with Friday night,

says, is something he sees Saturday and Sunday,

Edging out Fridays?

people don’t have to give
up their evenings to rush
through shopping.”

With consumers fess
pressured by time, he says,
they are choosing Saturday
and Sunday — and ignor-
ing the late opening Friday
— in increasing iiuumbers.

“Sunday,’’ he adds,
“used to be the day that a
family would go out and
cruise around. Now it's a
day that they go shopping,
as a family.”

The wide availubiliry of
Sunday shopping has fed to

Sunday.

F vee FF
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NEIL RYAN of Don Ryan Furniture — Sunday has been just great, thanks,

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a rapid change in shopping
habits, he says.

“People like it, they like
that extra day,’? says Ryan.

While Ryan says the
decision to open the fur-
niture store was ‘because
everybody else was’? and
the need ta stay com-
petitive, Ryan has become
an advocate,

“Now people can purty
Friday night) and even
Saturday night and then
get up at their feisure on
Sunday and do their shop-
ping,’* he says.

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