I have no idea how these opening hours work; only that they also seem to be very typical hours for most shops in Amsterdam, and I have no idea how anyone gets anything done round here either. Only the city centre clothes shops open on a Sunday, and even then not all of them, and a lot of the places that open Saturday also close on Monday to make up for it - not even just small private shops, but large chains. I think that used to be more the case in the UK too, twenty years ago, before supermarkets started opening late, but then twenty years ago there were a lot more housewives. And in Amsterdam at least it's not like people will just go to their competitors because everywhere does it, whereas in London there's always a choice, even if it's just the supermarkets. I'd only guess they're banking on it somehow increasing their cachet - destination shopping, as it were. If they have to jump through hoops to get there at the right time, perhaps the customers will value the meat even more.
I think it's partially that, and partially just cluelessness. I get the impression that the people who run these kind of uber-trendy shops in London have friends who lead peripatetic lives & don't realise that most of us work regular hours!
E.g. there's a coffee shop near me which I would frequent more often, but they don't open until 9am. They often Tweet sadly that no-one is coming in for coffee in the mornings... but most people are halfway to work by 9am! If they're relying on the WFH/parent crowd, they're on to a loser - parents might go out for coffee locally, but not every day.
I really want Flock & Herd to survive but I need to be able to shop there. Ack. I feel like Tweeting them about it but I don't know how they'd take it!
There's a similarly trendy butcher in East Dulwich and the queues outside on a Saturday are so huge I've never bothered to visit. I'd rather go on an evening after work and know I might get decent meat, than go on a Saturday and get the scrag ends if the week (especially as they're open Tue-Sat, you'd assume by Sat they'd be furthest away from deliveries)
Also, I guess I feel it's not fair* that SAHP/retired/etc get 4 days to shop at their leisure while working people (who IME are in the vast majority) have to cram it all into one hectic day. Hence the huge queues at the East Dulwich butcher!
I was in the middle class bit of Crouch End the other day, walked past a pub and looked in to see 20 women all sitting on the floor in a circle with their babies. And this was a pub!
Can't see that that would happen so much in Peckham though(?) so maybe they haven't thought that one through.
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E.g. there's a coffee shop near me which I would frequent more often, but they don't open until 9am. They often Tweet sadly that no-one is coming in for coffee in the mornings... but most people are halfway to work by 9am! If they're relying on the WFH/parent crowd, they're on to a loser - parents might go out for coffee locally, but not every day.
I really want Flock & Herd to survive but I need to be able to shop there. Ack. I feel like Tweeting them about it but I don't know how they'd take it!
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There's a similarly trendy butcher in East Dulwich and the queues outside on a Saturday are so huge I've never bothered to visit. I'd rather go on an evening after work and know I might get decent meat, than go on a Saturday and get the scrag ends if the week (especially as they're open Tue-Sat, you'd assume by Sat they'd be furthest away from deliveries)
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Also, I guess I feel it's not fair* that SAHP/retired/etc get 4 days to shop at their leisure while working people (who IME are in the vast majority) have to cram it all into one hectic day. Hence the huge queues at the East Dulwich butcher!
*waah waah waah etc
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Can't see that that would happen so much in Peckham though(?) so maybe they haven't thought that one through.
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(And on the floor of a pub?! Eeeew!)
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