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Stop scratching on holidays
Published: June 1, 2012
Off Track Betting in New York State has been racing into a crisis called shrinking revenue. Some people have spitballed a solution: Don’t close on holidays.
New York State Racing Law bars racing on Christmas, Easter and Palm Sunday, and the state has ruled OTBs can’t handle action on those days, even though they could easily broadcast races from out of state.
“You should be able to bet whenever you want,” said Jackson Leeds, a Nassau OTB employee who makes an occasional bet. He added some irrefutable logic: “How is the business going to make money if you’re not open to take people’s bets?”
Elias Tsekerides, president of the Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York, said OTB is open on Greek Orthodox Easter and Palm Sunday.
“I don’t want discrimination,” Tsekerides said. “They close for the Catholics, but open for the Greek Orthodox? It’s either open for all or not open.”
OTB officials have said they lose millions by closing on Palm Sunday alone, with tracks such as Gulfstream, Santa Anita, Turf Paradise and Hawthorne running.
One option: OTBs could just stay open and face the consequences. New York City OTB did just that back in 2003. The handle was about $1.5 million – and OTB was fined $5,000.
Easy money.
Starbucks’ new bathroom policy is utterly ridiculous
What could be a worse business decision than Starbucks inviting everyone to come into its stores to use the bathroom — thus opening its doors to loiterers, the ne’er-do-wells and, of course, those who want to stay put and read a lengthy novel on the porcelain throne.
How about JCPenney, or any retailer, doing the same: an Annual Loafers Day, say?
Or, supermarkets inviting people to come in, open boxes of food on the shelves and have themselves a taste?
Or “Shout Out Day” at the library?
What could be a worse business decision than Starbucks inviting everyone to come into its stores to use the bathroom — thus opening its doors to loiterers, the ne’er-do-wells and, of course, those who want to stay put and read a lengthy novel on the porcelain throne.
How about JCPenney, or any retailer, doing the same: an Annual Loafers Day, say?
Or, supermarkets inviting people to come in, open boxes of food on the shelves and have themselves a taste?
Or “Shout Out Day” at the library?
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