Being open 24 hours

estebanrey said:
But you're at work, i.e not in a position to go shopping.

There are plenty of late night garages and supermarkets to cover your pasty and a pint of milk requirements for that.

Regardless of the hours someone works, it's not often they go out clothes or furniture shopping on their way to work.



I would love it if Kim Kardashian turned up at my house claiming she wanted to be my sex slave.
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I am available to go shopping, I often do, the other week I walked to tesco at 3am on Saturday morning as I was on stuck on night sleep patterns.

If you read my first reply, I said many shops wouldn't open 24/7, but. Those who want to should be allowed. Currently they are not due to Sunday trading laws.
 
It's nice to have a supermarket open 24/7 as previously said they're usually stocking shelves any way but having them all open 24/7 is a waste of resources as the majority probably wouldn't get any customers at all.

MW
 
Glaucus said:
If you read my first reply, I said many shops wouldn't open 24/7, but. Those who want to should be allowed. Currently they are not due to Sunday trading laws.
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So your problem is with Sunday Trading laws and not the general availability of shops that are open 24 hours a day (for the rest of the week anyway)?
 
PMKeates said:
I wouldn't be surprised if people who work night shifts have a tendency to die earlier for various reasons.
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The issue is its epidemology, which doesn't actually look for facts or solid links, it's just statistically.

Statistically, us night workers do have many downsides, but a lot of this can be explained. There are far more of us who do shifts on nights than on days. Meaning we don't have a fixed sleep pattern, which plays havoc with our bodies.
We are also more likely to have a poor diet.
It doesn't mean we will have a higher risk if we counter this stuff.
The new light technology is also interesting and I do want to get a setup when one is available.
 
estebanrey said:
So your problem is with Sunday Trading laws and not the general availability of shops that are open 24 hours a day (for the rest of the week anyway)?
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As I said in first post.
Old be nicer if more wee open, but I don't want a law forcing companies to open when they don't make enough profit. It should be down to the company what they do.

A more and more people work night, I expect more things to stay open. Just like we've seen already.
 
Tbh I would be happy if the things I wanted opened for just a bit longer outside my working hours. Its all great working 9-5 until you realise everything you want to do/go to/call up also works 9-5!

Also, deliveries! Grr!! I wonder what the maths would be comparing the cost of multiple failed delivery attemps between 9 and 5 to just offering a delivery service that delivers later? Trying to deliver to me 3 times must be more expensive than delivering once at 7pm?
 
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i did nights at tesco last for a while, it was dead, apart from the few crazy people and the people that arent all there....

it was extremely draining! you still sleep the same amount the next day as you would if you did a day shift, its just something about nights that are more draining.

there was only 1 person on the checkouts/self service, and to be honest they did more talking than anything!

think the only reason places like tesco, asda etc.... open for 24 hours is that they are going to be running anyway cause of the sheer amount of stock that that has to go out, that they might aswell spend say £120~ to put one/two people on the checkouts to make say £300~ (xmas it was a lot more, due to people doing their xmas shops at 12pm and 4-5am) from people doing late night shopping.

they "open for business" at night more for convinience than to make money....
 
kegz665 said:
i did nights at tesco last for a while, it was dead, apart from the few crazy people and the people that arent all there....

it was extremely draining! you still sleep the same amount the next day as you would if you did a day shift, its just something about nights that are more draining.

there was only 1 person on the checkouts/self service, and to be honest they did more talking than anything!

think the only reason places like tesco, asda etc.... open for 24 hours is that they are going to be running anyway cause of the sheer amount of stock that that has to go out, that they might aswell spend say £120~ to put one/two people on the checkouts to make say £300~ (xmas it was a lot more, due to people doing their xmas shops at 12pm and 4-5am) from people doing late night shopping.

they "open for business" at night more for convinience than to make money....
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What about security staff? Or are thieves free to nick what they want in the small hours of the morning?
 
we had one security member on the door console (im sure youve seen them) and sometimes one in an office (ctv and just general communication), they would be there regardless of whether the store is open are open or not so it made no difference to the company
 
Skeeter said:
If it was the norm for things to be open all night then there would be the trade to keep things open. The service industry could easily stay fully manned 24x7 if providing services to the whole globe. I expect you could justify (ignoring the hurdle of having to pay people) the financial services areas in London being open 24x7, which would then mean all services that get used by those people (shops, restaurants, etc) would be able to open all the time.
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Aspects of that industry do run 24/7 - it doesn't necessarily follow that shops, restaurants stay open just because some IT guys are working or some people are covering for guys in Asia, the US etc...
 
dazzerd said:
I disagree it may be good for you but it wouldn't be good for the people who had to work the shifts.

Did you know that you are more likely to die earlier and have medical problems working a night shift?
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I can imagine it, I done a few month of nightshifts when running some projects (nothing in the long term of things) but that seriously knacked me up and felt really unhealthy never seeing the sun.

24 hour opening on everything might help unemployment somewhat though :p isn't NYC a lot more 24/7 than the UK?
 
I went to school when I was younger - I'm sure some of you also did the same - and there was a girl whose name I think was Helen or Helene who some of the naughtier children called 'Sunday Trading'.
 
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