It's not just in big cities either. My small provincial town has several shops and take-aways that appear to do no business at all. They're open for a couple of

It's not just in big cities either. My small provincial town has several shops and take-aways that appear to do no business at all. They're open for a couple of afternoons a week and never have any customers. There's a pizza place run by a single elderly man who gets annoyed if you go in and ask for a pizza (although he will treat you to a lecture about how wonderful Vladimir Putin is).