If John Elway Toyota doesn't want to open on Sunday then don't open, but how does it make sense to force everyone else to follow this rule if they don't want to?
Hello? He makes more money this way. That makes considerable sense to him. Did you miss the first sentence of my original post?
In Wisconsin they sell liquor in grocery stores. If the checkout clerk is underage, he can't sell it to you...so you have to move it across the scanner and bag it without his touching it. That protects his soul from Satan.
If you ask me, it's an anachronism when many liquor stores are huge warehouses staffed by ten people.
Quite right. One of the biggest stores in the Denver area is near me, and it works an interesting deal on Sunday. If you're holding a party on Sunday and don't know if you need one keg of beer or two, you can buy two and leave one in the warehouse. If you run out, the janitor can turn your previously-purchased keg over to you; if not, you can "return" the keg Monday and get a refund.
The overhead for a 6-day store is in turn higher than for a 5-day store,
Not on a per-hour basis. 7 days means lots of overtime, or a larger staff some of whom are willing to work Sundays...either way, it costs more per hour.
Who's forcing you to stay open all 7 days?
The other liquor stores. If your competitor on the next block is open on Sunday, folks will buy there instead of waiting until Monday to buy from you.
It has nothing to do with making decisions for you, and everything to do with collecting money. California has loads of small wineries that market their goods online. If you're a distributor in, say, Ohio, you could distribute their product, but for the small number of cases they ship, it wouldn't be worth the effort -- it's much more efficient to distribute wine that comes in trainloads. But every case the indies ship to Ohio is a case you don't sell -- so it's in your interest to stop those cases at the Indiana line. And it's in the state's interest too, because liquor taxes are big and it's difficult to collect them on online sales.
There's an analogous situation here in Colorado: you can't buy a bottle of liquor on Sunday. The state isn't banning it to save your soul; you're welcome to drink your way to perdition in a bar. The reason? Sunday closing is much more harmful to total by-the-drink sales than it is to total package sales, and business overhead is substantially higher for a 7-day store than for a 6-day store. So bars stay open on Sunday, liquor stores close, and they're both happy. Every attempt to repeal the Sunday-closing law is shot down by the liquor business.
Same deal on cars, by the way...you can't buy a car on Sunday, and John Elway Toyota wouldn't have it any other way.
Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.
Going into the American Revolution without a million livres of French money, Lafayette, Rochambeau, the Comte de Grasse, 30-odd French ships of the line in Chesapeake Bay and several thousand French troops marching on Philadelphia might have been a good way to test that thesis...
If I came home one evening and really wanted to switch my brain off and rest, without a people-meter box I might... conceivably...
And if you were keeping a manual log, you just might...conceivably...lie about it. (In fact, I'll bet PBS would give plenty to be watched by as many people as claim they do.) The People Meter would record you as a viewer who watches crap TV sometimes, and that is --guess what?-- just what you would be.
Then after a while the old coin ceases to be legal tender, although it can still be exchanged at banks.
I'm told the B of E will even redeem the phony fivers left over from the failed German counterfeiting operation of WW2...though I imagine they'd be worth more than £5 as collector's items.
I was standing outside Buckingham Palace waiting to see the Changing of the Guard, when a mounted cop rode over and herded us away from the gate to make way for a royal coach carrying a man in a Nehru hat. A lady next to me, obviously a fellow Yank, asked him "Who's the guy in the funny hat?" This dialogue ensued:
"That's the Ambassador from Mali, ma'am." "What country is that?" "Well, it's...Mali, ma'am." "Well, where the hell is that?"
Whereupon the cop remembered urgent business elsewhere. I leaned over and said "It's on the Canadian border between Vermont and Manitoba. We depend on them for ball bearings."
[pedantry]Jet engines are internal combustion engines. The Rutan/Yeager flight was powered by two piston engines.
The little thing lost off the wingtip was not a stabilizer, but a winglet. Its only function is to modify the airflow around the wingtip in a subtle way that decreases the drag slightly, and the impact of losing it was a decrease in gas mileage.[/pedantry]
I bought into BB's "Movie Pass" deal, $25/mo for unlimited rentals two at a time. It was a very neat deal for the three or four months it took to become widespread, but now it's collapsed into uselessness because they don't stock as many copies as before. By the time I get off work on Tuesday, the new releases are rented out and they stay that way for weeks. I'm going to check out Netflix, and if it works OK, Blockbuster is history.
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Hello? He makes more money this way. That makes considerable sense to him. Did you miss the first sentence of my original post?
rj
A free market is great. Control of the legislature is even better.
rj
In Wisconsin they sell liquor in grocery stores. If the checkout clerk is underage, he can't sell it to you...so you have to move it across the scanner and bag it without his touching it. That protects his soul from Satan.
rj
Ummm, no..."*I* already know what's good for *my* business, so please force *them* to do it *my* way."
How absolutely capitalist of them...
How absolutely right.
rj
Quite right. One of the biggest stores in the Denver area is near me, and it works an interesting deal on Sunday. If you're holding a party on Sunday and don't know if you need one keg of beer or two, you can buy two and leave one in the warehouse. If you run out, the janitor can turn your previously-purchased keg over to you; if not, you can "return" the keg Monday and get a refund.
rj
Not on a per-hour basis. 7 days means lots of overtime, or a larger staff some of whom are willing to work Sundays...either way, it costs more per hour.
Who's forcing you to stay open all 7 days?
The other liquor stores. If your competitor on the next block is open on Sunday, folks will buy there instead of waiting until Monday to buy from you.
rj
Umm, let's see...your typical modern handgun has a trigger, thumb safety, grip safety, slide release, magazine release...
rj
There's an analogous situation here in Colorado: you can't buy a bottle of liquor on Sunday. The state isn't banning it to save your soul; you're welcome to drink your way to perdition in a bar. The reason? Sunday closing is much more harmful to total by-the-drink sales than it is to total package sales, and business overhead is substantially higher for a 7-day store than for a 6-day store. So bars stay open on Sunday, liquor stores close, and they're both happy. Every attempt to repeal the Sunday-closing law is shot down by the liquor business.
Same deal on cars, by the way...you can't buy a car on Sunday, and John Elway Toyota wouldn't have it any other way.
rj
So if it had a $50 million sack of kitty litter in the trunk...
rj
Check with your state attornety general's office...you may find you have the right to treat him to a visit from the sheriff. Tons of fun.
rj
Why yes, I do. You realize that English isn't the only language that has homonyms, right?
rj
Going into the American Revolution without a million livres of French money, Lafayette, Rochambeau, the Comte de Grasse, 30-odd French ships of the line in Chesapeake Bay and several thousand French troops marching on Philadelphia might have been a good way to test that thesis...
rj
George P. Burdell? An AC? Well, I'll be dipped.
rj
Heisenberg.
If I came home one evening and really wanted to switch my brain off and rest, without a people-meter box I might ... conceivably ...
And if you were keeping a manual log, you just might...conceivably...lie about it. (In fact, I'll bet PBS would give plenty to be watched by as many people as claim they do.) The People Meter would record you as a viewer who watches crap TV sometimes, and that is --guess what?-- just what you would be.
rj
Considering that cooking programs generally skip substantial blocks of time while something soaks, cooks or mixes, that might be a bit tricky.
rj
Yep, got that T-shirt last year....in Salzburg actually, but we saw it in Vienna too.
I liked the "Walk of Fame" stars in the Vienna sidewalk...just like the ones in Hollywood except the names are Mozart, Beethoven, von Weber, et al.
rj
I'm told the B of E will even redeem the phony fivers left over from the failed German counterfeiting operation of WW2...though I imagine they'd be worth more than £5 as collector's items.
rj
I was standing outside Buckingham Palace waiting to see the Changing of the Guard, when a mounted cop rode over and herded us away from the gate to make way for a royal coach carrying a man in a Nehru hat. A lady next to me, obviously a fellow Yank, asked him "Who's the guy in the funny hat?" This dialogue ensued:
"That's the Ambassador from Mali, ma'am."
"What country is that?"
"Well, it's...Mali, ma'am."
"Well, where the hell is that?"
Whereupon the cop remembered urgent business elsewhere. I leaned over and said "It's on the Canadian border between Vermont and Manitoba. We depend on them for ball bearings."
She went away obviously satisfied.
rj
rj
IIRC, they stopped using that thing because it had a tendency to pick up bacteria from your skin and ram them inside.
rj
The little thing lost off the wingtip was not a stabilizer, but a winglet. Its only function is to modify the airflow around the wingtip in a subtle way that decreases the drag slightly, and the impact of losing it was a decrease in gas mileage.[/pedantry]
rj
Carlson's confidence may have suffered somewhat when CNN fired him and killed the show...
rj
Arm yourself against spelling flames first, Grasshopper. Only then will your math flames stand up to the foe.
rj
I bought into BB's "Movie Pass" deal, $25/mo for unlimited rentals two at a time. It was a very neat deal for the three or four months it took to become widespread, but now it's collapsed into uselessness because they don't stock as many copies as before. By the time I get off work on Tuesday, the new releases are rented out and they stay that way for weeks. I'm going to check out Netflix, and if it works OK, Blockbuster is history.
rj
Stealing from the stupid is stealing.
rj