Will the Dépanneur Ultra, like this one in Montréal’s NDG region, be cutting back to 24 hours?
With Stéphane Dion’s carbon plan accidentally leaking into our ozone layer
yesterday (thanks for adding to all the hot air) and companies like Magna, Air Canada, GM and such, suddenly realizing that they’re ‘way big’ in a world of oil approaching $200 a barrel, it has lead to the inevitable thoughts of how industries in the smaller service sector might cut back, and how we might all ’pull together’ and lower our own carbon emissions (and I’m not just talking about easing up on the bean dip).
We might want to take an eco-friendly, soy-ink page from Japan’s idea for curtailing this whole: “I’ve gotta have it now” attitude in our consumerist society and making our convenience stores a little less convenient.
The government no longer want its carbon footprint to be quite as ’Big In Japan’ as say Alphaville’s once was.
24 hour convenience stores, a fixture of the hip and happening scene in Japan’s city nightlife, may be forced to shorten their hours of operation in an effort to help reduce the effects of carbon dioxide emissions. More and more cities in Japan are looking at having their convenience stores open at 7 am and then close at 11 pm. …7 to 11, – what a novel idea!!
Unfortunately, you just know where this will lead. Whenever there is a ‘percieved need’ and nobody is servicing it, the ’criminal element’ is always there to step up to the plate and take up the slack.
I foresee furtive yuppies having clandestine meetings in dank, ‘Blade Runner-esque‘ back alleys, negotiating the street-price for Häagen-Dazs®, S.Pellegrino® and blackmarket black bean dip with their ‘dealers’, as their Bimmers idle a few feet away with their dual-zone climate controls set to high.
- Steve Steinbach
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