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Originally Posted by
Robert Foster
How about Brentwood or Canoga Park?
Brentwood, a district in LA, has an LA city library branch not open on Sunday. No problem. Brentwood borders Westwood, separated by the 405, and UCLA in Westwood is a half mile east of the freeway. Hundreds of well-heeled UCLA students live in Brentwood, and many commute by bike. UCLA has world class libraries, including college (Powell) with over 6 million books, as well as biomedical and law, science and engineering and arts.
This thread is about bike shops. A lot of people don't mind driving 30 minutes to get to one, particularly in LA. A goodly number of LBSs in LA and OC are happy to service customers on Sundays, which is really nice. Others are closed, and nobody has any cause for complaint that their *nearest* one a mile from their home is one of these.
The needle about the library not being open Sunday 7:30 was an inane red herring. Nobody's wondering why LBSs can't be open at 7:30 Sunday evenings, are they?
Again, LBS owners can do whatever they want. It's a free country. Maybe the ones open on Sunday like the social engagement of weekend business. Others may not be enthralled dealing with newbies and leisure riders, the biggest category of Sunday customers, instead wanting to be racing their mates, and they may think they can't afford to have employees cover the shop in their absence. That's their prerogative.
Good attitude about Brentwood not being open. Just go somewhere else. Same with Canoga Park or any number of other places like Eagle Rock. And that is just what point someone was trying to make to the Librarian that wanted the LBS to be open on Sunday. You last paragraph is part of the reason people own their own business. So it is not anger that causes the responses that have been delivered it is preferences. Like it was pointed out early on, it is their business and they have put their money where their mouth is. Until someone has dug into their bank account to finance the plan to quick wealth their suggestions might be put on the back burner. If you were going to open one you would have a business plan I am sure. Unless you didn't need bank financing. Got to the NBDA site I posted in the other post and see who the best customers tend to be. See how often the Casual rider might drop in on any given day. Then when you have those numbers in your folder you could decide what the best days to be open or closed are. And maybe you might understand how in the world some silly LBS owner could decide they didn't want to be open on a particular day.
