So it's looking like the west coast is going to have the longest summer ever. This is bad for Corndog's Fish store. It is however making me revisit my hours I'm open. Usually every summer I consider it but end up making no change to my hours. I'd say most of my competitors are closed 1-2 days a week that are mom and pop stores. Where I'm open 7 days a week. Big chains like petco and petsmart obviously open 7 days a week and longer hours.
Current I'm open:
Mon-Sat: Noon till 8pm
Sunday: Noon till 6pm
It would seem on Saturdays even during my busy season, sales really drop after 6pm. On great weather days during the summer it seems like all days sales drop after 6pm. I don't know if it's due to people BBQing/wanting to eat out etc or what.
I'm interested to know what time you guys prefer to shop and what your work schedule is. My logic has been Most people get off work at 5pm. With traffic etc, they can make it to my store by 6pm. I wanted to be open later so that they could eat dinner before shopping as well. Now I'm rethinking it as maybe I'm giving them an option I don't need too.
Has anyone changed their retail hours, and have the customers just adapted to the new times? Clearly there will be some customers who just simply can't make it in those hours possibly.
I could potentially open up earlier as well, but in the store I managed, 10am till 12pm were clearly our worst sales hours.
The new schedule I'm floating is:
Noon till 6:30pm every day.
Anyone have experience with the effects of being able to say, noon till 6:30pm every day vs. Noon till 6:30 weekdays, Noon till 5 weekends or something like that? I feel like every day noon till 6:30 is easy to remember, and 2 different times will just confuse people, but I generally check hours before I go somewhere I don't know the hours too anyways.
Current I'm open:
Mon-Sat: Noon till 8pm
Sunday: Noon till 6pm
It would seem on Saturdays even during my busy season, sales really drop after 6pm. On great weather days during the summer it seems like all days sales drop after 6pm. I don't know if it's due to people BBQing/wanting to eat out etc or what.
I'm interested to know what time you guys prefer to shop and what your work schedule is. My logic has been Most people get off work at 5pm. With traffic etc, they can make it to my store by 6pm. I wanted to be open later so that they could eat dinner before shopping as well. Now I'm rethinking it as maybe I'm giving them an option I don't need too.
Has anyone changed their retail hours, and have the customers just adapted to the new times? Clearly there will be some customers who just simply can't make it in those hours possibly.
I could potentially open up earlier as well, but in the store I managed, 10am till 12pm were clearly our worst sales hours.
The new schedule I'm floating is:
Noon till 6:30pm every day.
Anyone have experience with the effects of being able to say, noon till 6:30pm every day vs. Noon till 6:30 weekdays, Noon till 5 weekends or something like that? I feel like every day noon till 6:30 is easy to remember, and 2 different times will just confuse people, but I generally check hours before I go somewhere I don't know the hours too anyways.