They are near major cities, have long hours, and are almost all open seven days a week in countries that historically close retail operations on one or more days and often for several hours during the middle of the day.

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We essentially worked seven days a week, but most of these people either, one, they put their previous life aside and devoted 100 percent to this investigation, or, two, some of them began leading two lives and keeping two jobs, and they did the investigation in the daytime, and they did their other duties at night.

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