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I think you’re getting some resistance below because the answer to your first question is Yes. Not just “Yes, they close at night”, even. The entire American
by jasonkester 7y ago
I think you’re getting some resistance below because the answer to your first question is Yes.
Not just “Yes, they close at night”, even.
The entire American mentality revolves around everything being available all the time, so it’s really jarring to come over here and see the equivalent of a 7-Eleven closing for two hours at lunchtime, half of Saturday and all of Sunday and Monday, and calling it a night at 7 on other days. And the local versions of Ralph’s, CVS, and Walmart doing the same.
So no, essentially nothing is open at night here. And it has been this way for forever, so it’s built into the culture at the DNA level. You would never consider going grocery shopping at 9pm. One should do such things at the appropriate time.
- baud147258 7y agoWell, there's a few time where the supermarket that closed at 10 pm around the corner in Paris had been really useful.
- mytailorisrich 7y ago> And it has been this way for forever, so it’s built into the culture at the DNA level. It used to be that shops closed for lunch. Some still do and then complain that customers shop in shopping centres. People want what is convenient. Evenings and weekends are convenient because people are busy during weekdays and stay-at-home wives is no longer a thing in many cases. It's like McDonald's. The 'correct' thing to do is to complain about them and to look down on them, but McDonald's is actually very, very successful in France...