Well, that may be true in the city, but it isn't in rural areas. We happen to be relatively close to the one decent-sized town that has a Wally-World and there is a branch bank there. Being as I so rarely am in there, I don't know whether they have any Sunday hours or not -- I suppose they probably do since it's the most popular spot for the packing plant employees, but I'd almost wager there's nothing more than a teller window on Sunday. And, of course, anything that I needed to discuss that couldn't be done online or over the phone couldn't be handled at the branch location, anyway. Here it's still local banks, local folks, business the handshake way...
Yes. When we were in VA were much more nearly in the middle of a zone plus being in the shadow of the Blue Ridge made days there end quite early it seemed. Here and where we were in TN, we're on the very edge of the zone. As I noted in another response, many of the area counties simply swap back and forth between Central and Mountain zones and never move the clocks. Only the counties that have large enough towns that the townies can out-vote the rest do they actually change. That of course, includes our county w/ the largest town in 80 mile radius and the sizable packing plant hourly workforce.
Yeah, right... :)
It's akin to teaching -- you don't do it for the money or you're in the wrong line of work.