BS - Sunday, December 23, 1984 - North Shore News Eg Open Today IN 1985 What’s next in the malls? ONLY ONE question remains on the Sunday shopping season — where to from here now that the Christmas season 1s over? It was the lure of the situation at that time Christmas dollar, combined Lyan Valley Centre with the success of those management officials, in businesses that had been announcing their plans to open Sundays for some time, open Sunday, indicated that that in part prompted the the extra day of shopping wide-spread decision to would likely only bein etfect make shopping a oseven- during the month of day-a-week proposition on December the part of yumior and major The deciding factor in department stores. what happens beyond this That virtually opened the month may be the decision entire retail sector on atradi- of the major department tional day of rest stores — primarily Eatons, On the North Shore, there Woodwards, the Bay and have always been a sigmifi- Sears — to open Sundays. cant number of businesses Those openings came in open Sundays but until response (oO two trends — the recently they were mainly growing consumer demand speciality shops. for Sunday shopping and, That changed last month with the announcement made by Zellers that tt would open Sundays Other tenants of the Lynn Valleys Centre followed suit The announcement made by Zellers, however, was that their stores throughout B.C. would be opened until December 23 — today — and that any Sunday open- ing beyond that would be decided after analysis of the related to that, the not in- significant number of shopp- ing dollars that were going to jumior department stores on Sundays and in repeat business generated by the Sunday opening. Even within the retailing community, there is no clear feeling about what will hap- pen next month. On one hand, there 1s the possibility that the majority of the stores will make the a ae 7 : = ae : CARTRIDGES Includes Ownk Alpha Beam Big Birds & gg Catch Crackpots Plaque Attack (Cooke Monster Munch YOUR CHOICE decision to stay open and slug it out for shopping dollars for as long as possi- ble. The success enjoyed by smaller stores at Coquitlam Centre, Pacific Centre and Lansdown malls since they started opening Sundays tn mid-summer adds some weight to that possibility. A second possibility is that stores will remain open because none of the majors involved in the Sunday wars will be willing to be the first to close its doors to shoppers without a clear indication that others will follow suit. And there is the possibility that the situation will revert to what it was before the sudden explosion of Sunday openings as merchandizers enter the traditionally slow months of late winter. It is unlikely that that wall happen, however. The con- sumer response to Sunday Openings has shown there is considerable pent-up de mand for the convenience While the Sunday shopp. ing scene may not be quite as active as it has been for the past month, there seems to be litthe doubt that Sundays may never be the same again. Vanguarc Sun. Dec. 23 . Sat. Dec. 29 “Only You'll Know How Little You 1175 LYNN VALLEY ROAD NORTH VANCOUVER 980-9341 L Se na es SL NEWS ph Christmas remains to be seen. VRID LO; g GAME PROGHBA % bait VOL, | matte he Se ia : tiny Wig og th Wigs Hag 1g A be Tak ty 1 tags the Vinge, Sang See OUR YY 97 GROUP OF ATARI VIDEO GAmt CAHTHIDGES Ic tudes Dolphin Freeway frostbite Megamanta Prassure ( Gomer peentice Stampede loe Hockey Fathwoud Batthesone Cralactar: Cotte Sor eres Age Seraquest SwordQuest LYNN VALLEY CENTER Mon-Fri 9:30-9 Sat 9:30-6 Sun 115 Christmas Eve 9°00-5 30 Take Charge With Your Zellers Crodtt Account | Cnarge Card co arte Oe Creat Creodtt Ac cepted ees oto Terry Peters WHETHER THIS will be the scene on Sundays in Lower Mainland shopping centres after