Suffering from a terminal case of cabin fever, I decided to go out & get some chores done. My objectives were clear: obtain a rug for the bathroom and a new welcome mat for the back door. But as I descended the escalator, a grim realization hit me.
Linnen’s & Thangs was closed :mad:
Oh well, I thought. Maybe the owner is a Millerite like the Chick-Fil-et people and doesn’t open up shop on Sundays. So off I went to Bed Bath & Beyond. They were closed too :mad:
With a casual glance around the mall, I began to collect numerous subtle clues.
Lights are all off…
Gates are all down…
EVERYTHING IS CLOSED TODAY :mad: :mad: :mad:
The mall was fairly full of potential shoppers, as if everybody fully expected everything to be open for normal business. Clearly I wasn’t the only person to be angry that every rug store & welcome mat shoppe in town decided to close in honor of some guy who was allegedly nailed to a tree two thousand years ago. I can’t ever remember so many things being closed on Easter, and I’ve seen three dozen of them.
Borders Books was open, but what the hell am I supposed to do there??
Was everything closed in your are yesterday? Do you think it was right for retail merchants to close their stores on a normally busy shopping day?
I noticed this too. I thought it was really strange as I think of Thanksgiving and Xmas as being the only times when everything is closed. (Is this new or have I just never gone out on an Easter Sunday before?) My husband needed to return some staples to a hardware store (wrong size) and needed to buy oil at Kragen. Both were closed. Target was closed so he couldn’t buy oil there. Kmart was open and JAM FREAKIN’ PACKED so he couldn’t even get to the oil. We stopped into a couple malls hoping to maybe find a Sears or something open. All closed, with people driving around the parking lots in disbelief. Very surreal!
Yeah, lots of stuff was closed in my area–grocery stores, Target, Wal-Mart–even a lot of fast food outlets were closed. This didn’t really affect me that much, but I happened to notice it as we drove by.
I would guess that, especially in predominately Christian areas, stores have trouble getting employees to work on Easter, so many of them decide to skip the hassle and close, deciding that the loss of business isn’t worth the bother of scheduling potentially disgruntled employees.
Here’s the strange thing about this year: My daughter had spring break last week. I thought that she had school today, but it turns out that she gets an extra day of break for Easter, too! It’s OK, though–it’s snowing fairly heavily now anyway.
Living here in “God’s Own Backyard” (or Outhouse, as some prefer to say) I fully expected everything to be closed. I didn’t notice anything except the smaller businesses downtown being closed.
I didn’t have a problem with Food World, and the CVS next to it was open, also. The little Dairy Kreme and the home-owned pharmacy were dark as tombs, though.
I didn’t get to WalMart yesterday, but I don’t think it was closed, either. If it was, I think it was only for half a day or something like that. It’s a SuperCenter, and I think they only close for Armegeddon or if the University of Alabama stays off probation for longer than five years…something along those lines.
I know the malls here (central IL) have been closed for Easter for at least the past 5 or 6 years. Almost everything else was closed, too, which sucked because we wanted to go to the grocery store and rent a video in the afternoon. We did find one store open and they rented movies so all was not lost.
I am surprised you even got into the mall. When I tried to go to the mall yesterday, the parking lot was chained off. There were several cars driving around in a confused fashion. I live in northern California too. It’s not exactly the Christian Center of the World. A lot of stuff was closed. Safeway was open, so at least I was able to get a deli sandwich for my sister.