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CMV: Limiting business hours is not a reliable way to limit the number of customers and may actually be detrimental

 I've seen a lot of businesses recently shifting their hours to try to limit the number of people coming to their store. While this may be effective in shopping malls, where a lot of people wander store to store just to shop, I do not think this is effective for the huge majority of stores, and may even have negative consequences.

 If I need to go to the store (for necessities like food), I'm going to make an effort to go to the store whether they've limited their hours or not. All that limiting store hours does is take the number of people who were going to come to the store throughout the day and put them into a shorter timespan. This also has the negative effect of crowding people closer together in the store.

 Rather than having the same number of people spread throughout the day, you have put them closer together and perhaps more at risk. I fail to see a benefit to this policy, at least for a majority of stores.
gpt
So, the counter to this is that some stores are limiting hours to enable their staff to clean more than usual. 

In other cases - 24 hours stores have dropped an entire shift of workers. This is a group of people less exposed because that entire shift is not working. 

While you might be concentrating the number of people at once, if it is still below guidelines on average, cleaning surfaces may be a better option than spreading those people out.