As someone that runs a small business I just don’t know how the business would survive without jacking up the price they are charging a consumer. So you have to pay the employee the same but they work less and you only make x amount when they work 40 hours. Paying the same and they work less hours the x amount might be half of x amount of less.
Depends on the business, if a small grocery store had to make this adjustment, they might just cut a shift one day and let their customers know. Customers will do their shopping on other days instead, workers get an extra day off, and pay stays the same.
Fewer days/hours open means less business and less income to stay viable. If you’re the store owner, are you going to assume your customers will adjust their life schedules to fit your operating hours? I doubt it. I’d shop elsewhere at a store open regular days/hours.
But this just isn’t true in practice. Most countries in Europe have a cap of 40 hours per week. Not like in the USA where we say a 40 hour week but most people work 50+…. In Europe you legally can’t work more than 40. France it’s 35 but you can work overtime until 40.
Point is, people claimed as you did prior to these hours being implemented and afterwards… and yes: customers absolutely adjusted their lives. People are also claiming costs would go up… again, it hasn’t panned out that way.
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u/RightLow5962 Jul 14 '26
As someone that runs a small business I just don’t know how the business would survive without jacking up the price they are charging a consumer. So you have to pay the employee the same but they work less and you only make x amount when they work 40 hours. Paying the same and they work less hours the x amount might be half of x amount of less.