Originally Posted By: supton
Originally Posted By: javacontour
Originally Posted By: Ducked
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Taiwan retail auto parts market.
http://www.thedrive.com/there-isn't-one
A few of you may feel a bit better about yours now, better-than-nothing stylee.
Many here have never lived outside the US, so don't understand the blessing (and the curse) of being able to buy a lawn mower at 3am Sunday morning at Kroger.
That was my story. After my first year to 18 months in Germany for Uncle Sam, I was home on leave and awake at 3am. Mom lived within a block or two of a Kroger that was open 24x7 and they had lawnmowers on display as a seasonal item for sale.
In Germany, most places were closed (early or never opened) on Saturdays and Sundays except for lange Samstag or "Long Saturday"
https://www.german-way.com/travel-and-to...urs-in-germany/
Looks like it has changed since I left in 1991, but the idea is still there. There are few places to buy things.
Imagine a world where the long Saturday was until 6 or 8pm and on most weekends, if you didn't have what you needed by 2pm on Saturday, you were not going to get it until Monday.
Different kind of life, for sure. Not sure if I'd like it or not. I mean: let's say I can't finish a project, for the lack of a washer. I have to wait until Monday--except now the project has to wait until next weekend. Any delay now turns into units of weeks.
Then again, all my buddies are... home also, since none of them is working, either. So maybe they'll have what I need. Which means I might socialize more.
Not sure why I'm being quoted in a discussion about opening hours, though that's a valid enough topic.
The fairly simple point (for comparison) that I was making in my rather short article was that there is NO autoparts retail market here, at all, at any hour.
In general, you cannot buy autoparts unless you are in the trade, probably because there is absolutely no demand for them.