Agreement among retailers for uniform store hours
69 F.T.C. 1223 · May 11, 1966 · Digest No. 44
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No. 44. Agreement among retailers for uniform store hours. A retail dealers association of a certain city of substantial size has been advised that a proposed agreement among downtown retailers to establish uniform store hours would not, under the circumstances presented, be in violation of any 1aws administered by the Federal Trade Commission.
to 5: 30 The stated existing downtown shopping hours are 9 a.m. m. with Monday and some Thursday hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The proposed change wou1d make the hours from 11 a. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 5: 30 p.m. Saturday. The basic reason advanced for the proposed change in hours is to pJace the downtown retailers in a more effective competitive position with suburban shopping centers by estabJishing more convenient shopping hours for offce workers and by enabJing spouses to meet for dinner and shop. Any business estabJishment wil have the free choice as to wehther or not to conform to the proposed change in shopping hours. (File No. 633 7037, released May 11, 1966.