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human
ELI5: How many businesses/medical are still 9-5ish when the majority of their clients work 9-5.

How is it that still to this day businesses can get away with being open 9-5 type of hours? I leave the house at 7:45am to get to work and come home about 5:30-6PM. 

If I need a doc appointment, the latest is typically around 4. Dry cleaners closes about 6. Banks? Inside offices close at 5pm, drive-thru at 7. Same with post office.

Why are more businesses not open until at least 9?
gpt
How can they get away with it? Simple. They know you need them more than they need you. These kind of opening hours are roughly industry wide, so they don't have to worry about their clients going to a competitor. Extending their business hours costs money, and you can bet your bottom, a business isn't going to spend more if it doesn't get them more either.

With doctors there is also the fact that in some places there is a lack of doctors, so sometimes even if they do want to extend their hours, it is not that easy. You can't make a doctor work even more hours (they already generally work pretty long days) and you can't easily hire even more doctors if there is nobody around that has those skills.