Full list of shop opening hours over the world

Opening times of a supermarket in Finland: weekdays 8-21, Saturdays 8-18, to 2010 in the summer on Sundays only 12 to 21. The following country overview provides the legal closing times in different countries and draws on examples of appropriate customary lower opening times.

Several European countries, the opening hours of selected countries in other continents are included in the overview. In some countries there are also special rules for the sale of alcoholic beverages during the night time (for example, Norway, United Kingdom).

Sunday Shopping Phenomenon

Since 01 December 2009 is in Schleswig-Holstein, the new shop closing law. Accordingly, all transactions from Monday to Saturday for 24 hours fully in their opening times. A Sunday shops are generally not provided in this Act. However the local authorities identify four shopping Sundays in the year, may be open to where the business until a maximum of 18 clock. The shopping on Sunday so nothing prevents more.

In the border area to Denmark there is an advanced system to the “Sunday shopping”, so that may have opened the business Sunday from 11am to 23 clock. Florists, bakers and newsagents are allowed to open Sundays, 5 hours, travel accessories retailer consistently even. Through the scheme baths in Schleswig-Holstein, it is also traders of goods of daily consumption of durable and non-permitted in the tourist resorts, Sundays and public holidays from 11 bis 19 clock in the period of 15 December 31 to open in October. However, on 01 may May only the shop owners themselves are behind the shop counter. Thus offers a holiday destination Schleswig-Holstein virtually unlimited shopping experience.

Nevertheless, the shops are Sundays in Schleswig-Holstein are also often linked to festivals or other public attractions to enrich the shopping and the city still fun and often attract tens of thousands in the centers.

Electronic Purchasing System

E-Procurement is electronic purchasing of products or services from a decentralized point. This process runs without human intervention and without paper. With the introduction of electronic procurement is the internal organization more efficient. It saves on transaction more favorable purchase price.

E-procurement is suitable for large companies with a wide range and large office, a company with multiple locations, many different products and many must purchase is lost. Through a careful supplier selection and conclude purchase contracts with these vendors expire purchasing functions of the purchasing employee. Each employee can buy products at the lowest price. Thus there to twenty percent savings on current purchases. A good example of a company where the technology is interesting.

E-Procurement consists of three parts which eventually connect with each other:

• Sourcing Services Catalog
• Electronic procurement
• Ordering Catalog Systems.

Sourcing Catalog Services
Sourcing Catalog Services (SCS) are services where as many possible suppliers for a particular product or service can be found. This includes standard rates. With the wide range of services and products it is possible that the specific desired product or service and has found one company is about more possibilities. SCS is also a benefit to the market. Through greater choice are more likely to lower prices to suppliers as attractive as possible for the customer. A good example of SCS, the daughter pages of startpagina.

E-Procurement Components

E-Procurement has four components:

• Content management
• Requisition management
• Transaction management
• Connectivity management

Content management serves to catalog the current, accessible and user-friendly to make and keep. The information and prices are, by means of this component up to date. Requisition management ensures that any user can act on their orders. With the transaction management component can order processing to suppliers via email, fax or EDI control. It is also possible to track the status of an order to follow. Connectivity management ensures that the software can communicate with the ERP system. This is the data entered on the purchase order is automatically processed in the ERP system.

Smart Parent Company System

First, this article is not intended as complete and conclusive argument about the choice between one of the two systems. I want to briefly in the article above reflect the sounds I hear from the market, so you know roughly where you can watch and to think about it. If you are a new shop is set up, you obviously much more detailed research to find out which platform is best will contribute to the success of your new project.

The Magento platform is relatively new, has a smart parent company (Varien) and includes example why landing pages, analytics integration, more sophisticated marketing promotions, extended ACL management tools and many other standard Magento. The development is well designed and is tough, there are regular updates with new features.

However, Magento has also some disadvantages. First, it is a very serious package that allows you not shop every hoster can go (and in any case less than webhosters you with Joomla and Virtuemart can go). A common complaint is that the system (too) slowly. Because the package has many serious and extensive functionality of Magento enthusiasts I understand that for a small shop (about 50 products) can be very expensive to Magento in use.