Michigan mall threatens fines for retailers that didn't start Black Friday hours on Thanksgiving

[UrbScotty]

Source: MLive

If the Regis salon had its choice, the store in the Grand Traverse Mall would not have opened its doors on Thanksgiving.

But the alternative was to pay the mall a fine of around $500, the salon's manager told MLive and The Grand Rapids Press.

"We had to be open all the required hours," said the woman, who declined to give her name.

During those required hours from 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving to 1 a.m. Friday, the salon didn't do much business.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2014/11/michigan_mall_threatens_fines.html

[msongs]

1. they should have played the religion card. too late now nt

[louis-t]

2. At least it wasn't the 'evil government'

telling them what to do. Our overlords are really ramping it up.

[SoapBox]

6. Benghazi!

Uh...no...wait...O-bama's fault!



This mandatory opening for such businesses, seems fuck up...maybe they should get out of the Iron Fist Mall.

[christx30]

16. I guess the difference is that

if I am a store owner and I don't like the rules of the mall I'm in, I can walk away and go somewhere else very easily. With the government, if I'm unhappy there, I can vote every 2 to 4 years and hope something better comes along. Or I just have to live with it. People are pretty much helpless when it comes to bad government.

[louis-t]

17. If the Koch Bros. run the government and every aspect of your life

what you eat, breathe, see on tv, what you wear, how much you make, and you don't like it, what are you going to do? True, representative government will listen to what the majority of people want. The United Koch States of America will not. People are not helpless when it comes to bad government.

[christx30]

18. And what we have is not a true

representative government. They don't give a shit what we want. And it's always based on who can get out the vote, and laws that are in place to stop certain "undesirables" (like minorities, women, the poor) from voting. No change is actually possible. But I can sure decide to go to Pizza Hut if Dominos forgets my pineapple next time. But when Texas decides to impose voter ID laws or severe restrictions on abortions, and if they can get the Supreme Court to agree, we can't do anything about it.

[louis-t]

21. Look at every third post on this site.

It's about getting off your ass, organizing, protesting, voting, letting your Congress people know what you want. I never said it was easy, but your voice matters. Change IS possible. Walmart may not ever change, but your government will, with the right prodding.

[Faryn Balyncd]

3. Grand Traverse Mall royally deserves a boycott.

[Omaha Steve]

4. Stores in malls can be fined for several things

Not opened the doors on time anytime the mall is open is a fine. It can vary from management companies to company. But restrooms, cleanliness, health dept for restaurants etc. comes to mind.

[groundloop]

8. Yes, but they should at least use just a tiny bit of common sense

Who's gonna' go to a salon in the middle of the night? I can understand where the mall is coming from as far as wanting to have all stores open for customers, but IMO nobody goes to black Friday midnight sales to have their hair done.

[Stargazer09]

11. Agreed

Nobody going to the mall on a holiday is expecting every single store to be open.

Chick-fila locations in malls are closed every Sunday, and I doubt the malls fine them for that.

[Stargazer09]

10. I can understand that, to a point

But honestly, shopping malls are not doing very well right now, and threatening to fine a retailer like that is risky. Any given retailer may decide that it's no longer worth staying at that location, and once storefronts start emptying out, the mall starts going downhill.

[NoJusticeNoPeace]

5. Given the true meaning of this alleged holiday, maybe we should crassly commercialize it even

more.

Thanksgiving my ass

[drm604]

7. Who gets a haircut at 1:00 a.m.?

This would be silly any day let alone Thanksgiving.

[Bluenorthwest]

14. Edie Sedgwick?

Lindsay Lohan?

[olddots]

9. most malls should become homeless shelters

America worships greed and ignorance,vulgarity and violence and then disbelieves history and science .

[PeoViejo]

12. And you thought your HOA was a pain in the Ass

[JDPriestly]

13. Are the store hours written into the contract with the shopping center?

[jmowreader]

15. They are

The minimum hours you must be open are the published operating hours of the mall - if the center is open from 9 am to 9 pm, then so must be your store. You can be open longer than that - the Southcenter mall in Seattle officially opens at 10 am, but three of its anchors are open earlier. You can never be open less or you'll be in breach of your lease.

[dembotoz]

19. when you move into a mall you give up a lot of rights

such as hours.

it is what makes a mall a mall
all for the greater good and all that stuff
its not in the fine print--this is in pretty big print.

hmmmmmmmmm are malls socialist?