Why do stores close at 6pm in Sydney?

Question

I understand that latenight shopping is on Thursday, and it closes even earlier on weekends, but why does everything close so early during the week? Furthermore, why do things close even earlier on weekends?

Answer 1

That's happy hour, mate...

     It's all apples!

Answer 2

As a retaill employee for many years I wish they would close early in the USA.  No one cares about the employee.  If it was up to the retailers they would force every employee to work 12 hour days 7 days a week.  NEVER WORK IN RETIAL in the USA.

Answer 3

That's wat I call Citizen's right to live comfort luxuries and not work like a slave doggies with craps of **** human rights.

Asia countries people alway works like h**l with little pays only while the governments and dogs alway loaded with pocket of monies. Check it out!

Answer 4

Hey retail staff have a life too!

Would you work after 6pm if you had a one to  two hour trip to get home from the CBD to the "dormitory" suburbs?

There are a variety of opening hours in Sydney.

Most shops close about 6 pm on weekdays and 5pm on weekends.

A lot of shops only open on a Sunday cos they need to compete with the large stores that stay open or cos the rest of the mall is open.

You may live to shop but other people need a home life!

Answer 5

Closes because  that's  when the  employee  locks the door,  because   the employee was told to do that by the Boss.  

  Boss closes  at  a certain time because  Boss has found that  after that time it is unprofitable to  keep the store open.

Answer 6

Well traditionally they close at 5:30pm, pretty much everywhere here, not just Sydney. I do believe that there are trading laws and such that are in place. I remember growing up in a rural town in NSW, and there was a public meeting regarding later trading hours, and it was the domain of the local council to change them. It was voted down and as such, Sunday trading wasn't passed and later hours on weekends/weekdays other than Thursday didn't happen either.

I guess generally if those traditional laws are no longer applicable, it comes down to business cost to run vs likelihood of profit. It would depend on whether the business owner thinks that paying a staff member to remain in the store at those times would be covered and worthwhile in profit. If there are no people around, then it would be wasted money.

Answer 7

because its time to drink after 6