I once did an internship in a small town in Germany. There were 2 bakeries in this town. One closed for all of July as vacation, the other took all of August as vacation. They had coordinated this with each other so that everyone could always buy bread and pastries, but the bakers could also get their vacations. They would even put signs on their doors letting people know that the other bakery was open during their vacation.

I feel like in the US or Asia this would never happen. In these hyper-capitalist and competitive societies, both bakeries would jump on the opportunity of extra business, sacrifice their family and fun time, and neither would take any vacation. Two bakeries in a town would see each other as mortal competitors instead of collaborators and take every opportunity to eat into the others' business.