They're getting tired of just window shopping

Between 10:00 and 10:30 am on Sunday morning, I counted five buses that stopped in the Grove and dropped off tourists. They were those very big buses, and they probably came from the port, dropping people off before they have to hop on planes later in the afternoon. And the buses start coming even earlier than 10:00 am. This also does not account for the big red Gray Line buses and the smaller tour buses that come in all day, starting early. Sunday is a big day for tourists in the Grove and they start out early, it's a shame that the businesses in the Grove don't start out early to accommodate the tourists.

By 10:30 am, most of the Grove was still closed. The bored tourists wandered around and window shopped. This group, above, spent about half an hour at the Mayfair Promenade just looking. Not one business in the Promenade was open for them. These were tourists, with money, who wanted to shop. They spent about 20 minutes just coddling the peacock since there was nothing else to do.

Sure, the restaurants are open for breakfast (most anyway), but these tourists probably ate breakfast earlier and they weren't in the Grove to eat. They were here to shop. And there was nothing to buy. At 12:30 pm, one of the major galleries was still closed and people kept trying to go in and look around. Is this acceptable?

Malls have requirements that have stores open and close uniformly, maybe the BID should step in and start regulating that stores open and close at a certain time. If enough tourists complain about the boredom they face here, the bus companies are sure to take them elsewhere.

People want to complain about the poor economy, but in this case they are their own worst enemies. They lose lots of sales every Sunday morning. I counted hundreds, yes, hundreds of tourists on Sunday morning who left with their money still in their pockets because no one was here to sell to them.