Your comparison of a checker going on break and a store closing on time is apples and oranges.
If you know the store closes at 8 and you show up to shop at 7:59 (by your watch, maybe not theirs) then you are an ass.
Well, what are they open for then? Nothing? This bugs me when I show up for a last minute errand which will only take a moment and they "close" 5 minutes early. Or when I've been standing in line at the checkout and the registers are shut off.
It also bugs me when the store uses "closing time" to stop the clock on hourly employees but requires them to hang around while the store is not open.
These issues are of course mostly insignificant. But annoying.
Disagree. It’s either open at 759 or it isn’t.