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Umm... given that you're finding these stores in the yellow pages, why don't you call them up and ask? |
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Taking a bus to a store just to find out if it is open? That does not sound lazy to me. |
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Where I come from the Yellow Pages is an advertising
service. Businesses buy space and decide what goes in
that space. If they choose to list their hours they can.
Perhaps this idea should be renamed "Stores that
advertise their hours" instead.
If nick n uit only has to pay a pretty penny for his bus
fare then I can understand his not calling to ask about
hours. Phone calls are much more expensive.
Zippyanna: if they don't answer, hit the redial button. I
guarantee that after the third hour of constant phone
ringing it's not laziness preventing it being
answered.
nick : You get that feeling too? I know there's no-one
else in the room but I'm sure I'm not alone as well. My
doctor says the feeling will go away if I keep taking the
pills but he doesn't say if it will make whoever is watching
me go away too. |
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Speaking as someone in the Yellow Pages business... People don't advertise their hours because they pay for the space, and would prefer to waste it with worthless ad copy that doesn't do a bloody thing for them. |
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What would be cooler would be people all listing hours_of_op in the White Pages. |
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sirrobin: in my area, you can buy space to advertise, but if you don't, the Yellow Pages/White Pages still list you name, address, and phone. I'm suggesting they list hours as well. i wish I had a good comeback for the paranoia/schizophrenia thing. |
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In the UK Yellow Pages run a phone service called Talking Pages as well, where you get a freephone number to ring up and ask about businesses in your area. They tell you opening hours...and its free!! |
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I think a lot of companies don't put in their opening hours as they may change, and Yellow Pges adverts are around for ages, so by the time the book is 6 months old it may be wrong... |
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This is an excellent idea. I imagine that one of the reasons the info isn't in the printed yellow pages is that it would take up too much space. But on the web, this is not a problem. |
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The telephone companies seem to have no incentive to put up-to-date yellow pages on the internet. Free online listings are usually as old as the printed directories. I guess they think that if they put more recent info on the web for free, people would quit using the paper directories and use the web. Then they would have a hard time selling space in the yellow page to businesses. I understand they make a huge amount of money selling advertising space there. |
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I think the phone companies could either charge a small fee to use the real-time (or near real-time) listings, or figure out how to make money putting the same advertising on the web. The web advertising could be much more impressive. At minimum, each business could have a couple of paragraphs of info, such as their hours. |
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Since this will probably never happen, maybe somebody other than the phone company could start an online listing service. Rather than working like Yahoo, waiting for people to list themselves, they could go out into the community and obtain the information. But there has to be a way to make money doing it. |
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Sounds like a rant to me. |
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I don't think it's a rant. |
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They list the telephone numbers? Why not phone up and ask for store hours? |
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