This here's capitalism in the good old USA, as you know; everybody has the God-given right to go out and make as much money as they want. And that's what most people do. We believe it's a pretty good system, with certain limitations.
One person that we can think of that doesn't is the guy who owns Chick-fil-A, who keeps his restaurants closed because he's religious and wants to honor the Sabbath rather than make a bunch more money selling chicken sandwiches and tic-tac-toe-board-shaped potato thingees.
We find that interesting, even though you wouldn't call us religious or pious or not-hellbound. Leaving money on the table is a lot more interesting than making it sometimes, because so few people do it (on purpose).
Opening on Sunday might cost Chick-fil-A some fans, because some churchgoers probably appreciate the policy and see it as an extension of his (and their) faith. But the cost of being closed is far greater than the money that it stops at the locked door. Any day you're closed and your competitor is open is a day that the consumer can fall in love with the other guy's chicken. (Sorry, that doesn't sound very savory.)
Now we're hungry. Good thing it's not Sunday. What were we talking about again?
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