Things that piss me off #3: German shop opening hours

Update, Update: Due to my large scale campaigning and ranting about the subject,
German shops now open until 20:00 on Saturdays!!

Want to go to buy a Pizza and a six pack at 20:15 on a Wednesday evening?
Well then son, I recommend you go to your local Pizzeria, cos you ain't going to be able to go to a Supermarket in Germany after 20:00 during the week. And because the employees in Germany aren't really motivated to sell, sell, sell - they stop letting people in in some shops @ 19:45... How modern.

Forget to buy Milk & Nappies for your baby on Friday evening and
oversleep on Saturday?
Hard luck, because in case you don't live near a large train station, petrol station or an Airport, then you are stuck until 9:00 on Monday morning. Yes, believe it or not German shops close at 16:00 20:00 (That's 8 PM for the Americans out
there) on Saturday and don't open AT ALL on Sunday!! Cool. City people have the great loophole that in the train stations & airports one can buy everything, but only "traveller's needs" - that explains why they sell things like watermelons and bottles of whisky. Oh yeah and in Germany it is illegal to offer customers discounts (sorry: only twice a year - winter sale and summer sale).

Germany - a consumer's paradise...