[tshaddox]

> Businesses have customers.

This seems like a laughable reason given that traditional business hours are literally the exact same as traditional work hours, so by this argument all the supposed customers are at work anyway and thus not at your store.

[ghaff]

No. They're really not. They're later than most people go into an office and they go into the (early) evening.

[Apocryphon]

Well, then when they go shopping after work in the early evening they will be blessed with additional sunlight instead of the dismal dark.