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Wow, Apple Stores stay open that late on Christmas? They stay open that late at all?
by artursapek 14y ago
Wow, Apple Stores stay open that late on Christmas? They stay open that late at all?
- jballanc 14y agoI worked the overnight shift at the 5th Avenue Apple Store. I got to spend two Christmas mornings (and two New Years Eves) in a row with some of the best people I've ever worked with...hell, some of the best people I've ever met!
- nsp 14y agoWhen were you there? I worked twilight shift fall 11 - spring 12 at 5th ave
- jballanc 14y agoI was actually part of the store opening crew. Worked there March '06 to May '08, but I'll bet you worked with some of my good friends.
- artursapek 14y agoWow. NYC brings enough traffic in the middle of the night that it stays open, huh.
- acchow 14y agoI think of it as a public service: you're working on your Operating Systems assignment at 1am and discover your AC adapter has malfunctioned and you have 5% of battery left. 24/7 Apple Store. They're doing god's work.
- Cthulhu_ 14y agoI was under the impression that pretty much all of the major US cities were 24/7 economies, with store times matching up.
- randallsquared 14y agoHere's a tidbit that might entertain, then: in densely populated suburbs, you're less likely to find what you need at 3am than in small-town America (at least, in the rural South). That's because Walmart is typically open 24 hours, and Walmart in rural areas has essentially everything that's not very specialized. Upon moving from such a place to the suburbs of DC, I was dismayed to find that finding a store open at 3am was actually more difficult than in the hinterlands.
- protomyth 14y agoNo doubt. When I moved to Minneapolis, MN from ND, I was constantly amazed at how little is open in the early AM. Heck, even the fast food places closed early[1]. ND small town is more 24hr than the cities. 1) and what unholy foolishness of closing offsale at 8pm on weekdays, 9pm Fri and Sat, and closed all day Sun. WTF? "Backwards" ND has Sunday offsale.
- artursapek 14y agoNot really. I think NYC is the main city that doesn't sleep. Other large cities I've been to like Seattle get pretty dead late at night. The town I go to school in, Providence, even has a 2am business curfew.
- lilsunnybee 14y agoIs it really worth not letting employees be with their families on Christmas so a forgetful dad doesn't have to wait an extra day to buy mp3 players for his children? Is cheap electronic shit really more important than allowing people to spend time with loved ones?
- rdl 14y agoI love working on Christmas, since I don't really celebrate -- if I'm working, then other people don't have to, and I get paid a premium. The Christmas-New Years week is basically the most productive period in the world, followed closely by Burning Man week. Thanksgiving, in the US, has more market penetration than Christmas. Yet, there's the huge Black Friday shopping thing, so stores pay people extra to set up on Thursday too.
- acchow 14y agoOh Black Friday. "Only in America do you celebrate being thankful for everything you have on Thursday so you can go buy more shit on Friday" -Some wise netizen (a paraphrase).
- jetti 14y agoYou know that not everybody observes or cares to celebrate Christmas right? When I worked at a movie theater I loved working Christmas because it was easy money and I didn't care about the holiday, I'm sure I'm not the only one who feels this way.
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