tradional shopping hours

A store that is opened at all hours, only a few people can imagine this. But if you have been once to the States or to Britain you know how comfortable that can be.
A lot of people in Germany are against it. The majority are the elderly people, who are used to opening hours from 8am till 6pm. They are shocked when they hear that some stores are planning to be opened 24 hours. Most of them think it is crazy and it´s asking a bit too much for the checkout assistants. The employees would have to work at unsocial hours, especially on the weekends. They would find no time for their family and they would have no freetime. They employees might suffer under a lot of pressure, because they always have to be...