Open-door policy

To the editor:

Recently, I was doing some shopping downtown and was shocked to see many of the clothing stores on Massachusetts Street with their front doors wide open despite the near 100-degree weather. I was down there again a few days later and saw the same thing. The air conditioning was blasting out the front door.

Is this is a business ploy to attract people to the stores?

Well, it had the opposite effect on me because I refuse to shop at these stores until they close the doors and stop wasting precious natural resources.

And we wonder why the rest of the world sees Americans as wasteful.

Dave Walter,

Lawrence