B&H and Adorama Closed!

"SMS" wrote in message
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Neil Harrington wrote:

Those are all national holidays. People know when the national holidays
are and on a few of them, expect at least some businesses to be closed or
be open only for shorter hours. Also, each of those holidays is ONE DAY
and therefore does not pose much of an inconvenience, compared to a
religious holiday that lasts several days or a week.

Technically, the stores could open during the time between Rosh Hashanah
and Yom Kippur, but they choose to shut down. It's almost like the forced
shutdowns many companies have between Xmas and New Years.

B&H was open between the two, I got a shipment from them in the lag...

--
Skip Middleton
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In article ,
Bill Funk wrote:

Try going to Boston to April 19th to do some business. You'd be
suprised. At least I was when I went up there to do some apartment
hunting prior to taking a job 25 years ago.

Patriot Day. Boston was shut down tight.

The Patriots have their own holiday in Boston?

Actually, it's the anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill. It's also
the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, but that's not a holiday
in the US. And, it's also the anniversary of the Branch Davidian fire
and of the OK City bombing. But Patriot Day is in commemoration of
Bunker Hill.

Oh, it was also my wedding anniversary; that's the reason I know all
that other stuff about that date.

l e o wrote:
Tony wrote:
How about telling those jerks at Home Depot to have their
non-Christian employees open the place on Christmas while we're at
it.


No comparison, many stores in the US close only 3 days in a year. (not
counting small solo proprietorships)

The furniture store down the street from me is only open three days a week.
-That means they are closed about 200 days a year.

They can do whatever they like, and it's never even ocurred to me to whine
about it...

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 10:00:16 -0400, "Bill in Alexandria"
BMcGovernWITHOUT wrote:

I am sympathetic to John's disappointment.

If New York City is, what, only 25% Jewish, you'd think a big
company like B&H would have enough trustworthy and competent staff to serve
its broader customer base.

On the other hand, B&H is not alone. My son tells me that the A&P
grocery store across the river in Hoboken closes on Saturday noon before
Easter, and doesn't open again until Monday morning. You'd think that the
only large grocery store in the little trendy town would want to better
serve its customer base.

Since I like B&H, I would be VERY disappointed if I made an effort to
go there only to find it closed--for me, sometimes it's years between visits
to NYC.
That's why God invented fax, phone and online ordering.



Bill

"carrigman" wrote in message
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I'm just back from a trip to New York City where high on my agenda was a
visit to B&H to buy a Canon lens. Off I went one morning only to find the
store closed for the week. No word of explanation. No matter, there was
always Adorama. So I hightailed it down to West 18th Street only to find
myself, together with a bunch of other bemused photographers, staring at
shuttered windows and a notice saying they too were closed for the week!

All to do with a Jewish holiday, I understand. Surely they have enough
non-Jewish employees to cater for the rest of us? I didn't see any other
major New York stores closed for religious reasons and I think it is
outrageous for these two firms to treat its customers like this.

John,
Ireland

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:41:11 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
wrote:


"Jeremy" wrote in message
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I have never heard a Jew complain about Christians that close their
businesses on Sundays.

Ever heard of Christians closing their businesses for several days or a week
at a time, for religious reasons?

Schools close for a week or two at Christmas and Easter.
Everyone knows what the deal is, but they have to call them winter and
spring holidays to keep the atheists off their asses.



And I have never heard a Gentile complain that Jews keep their businesses
open on Sundays, either.

???
Why would anyone complain that the store he wants to do business with is
OPEN?


Really, who cares about petty stuff like that.

The OP apparently wanted to buy stuff at one of the big camera stores while
he was in New York for the day, and then had to go back to Ireland. In the
same circumstances I'd be ****ed myself, and probably you would too. It
wasn't a national holiday or anything like that, and who (other than a Jew)
knows or cares when the Jewish holidays are?

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 16:41:11 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
wrote:

It
wasn't a national holiday or anything like that, and who (other than a Jew)
knows or cares when the Jewish holidays are?


Having established that you're an asshole, do you have
anything useful to say?

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 22:34:21 -0400, "Neil Harrington"
wrote:


"Nikon User" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Neil Harrington" wrote:

I have never heard a Jew complain about Christians that close their
businesses on Sundays.

Ever heard of Christians closing their businesses for several days or
a week at a time, for religious reasons?

Several days, yes; a week, no.

What sort of business would close for several days?

I am not religious and had to look this up on Google: The holiest week for
Christians, particularly Catholics, is called ahem Holy Week. It's the
last week of Lent and includes some holy days that I never heard of before
(and I was born and raised Catholic).

That only proves you're _still_ not paying attention.

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:46:10 -0400, Rich wrote:


The reason that businesses started opening on Sundays about
20 years ago was because of complaints that it was religion-based

Doyou have any proof of that. As far as I copuld see, there
were simply a lot of places that opened on Sundays to get the jump on
those who closed. Then the rest had to open on sundays just to stay
up.

and it was interferring with other people's lives.

I'm usually up until aound 4 am, but I don't spend my life
bitching that someone isn't meeting my convenience.


Who do you think did most of the complaining? It wasn't the
Catholics. Now, most people don't care, because of busy lifestyles.
-Rich

wrote:
On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 19:46:10 -0400, Rich wrote:


The reason that businesses started opening on Sundays about
20 years ago was because of complaints that it was religion-based

Doyou have any proof of that. As far as I copuld see, there
were simply a lot of places that opened on Sundays to get the jump on
those who closed. Then the rest had to open on sundays just to stay
up.

and it was interferring with other people's lives.

I'm usually up until aound 4 am, but I don't spend my life
bitching that someone isn't meeting my convenience.


Hush, man! That's when I get up, too, and it is the quietest, most
productive time of the day for me. No phones ringing. No one dropping
by. Don't let other people in on the secret!

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 08:01:33 GMT, wrote:

Since I like B&H, I would be VERY disappointed if I made an effort
to go there only to find it closed--for me, sometimes it's years between
visits to NYC.

That's why God invented fax, phone and online ordering.

True but a bit incomplete. Don't forget that God also invented
copy protection, DRM, worms, viruses, trojans, hackers, crackers,
spam and spam, spam, spam, spam and spam. Wonderful spam!