The practice of shutting business premises on a particular afternoon every week.
〈英〉（在每周某天下午的）提早打烊
as modifierit's early-closing day
Example sentencesExamples
News cinemas, like early closing days, may still exist somewhere but I rather doubt it.
You'd think the absence of early closing in the supermarket's opening times might have suggested to me that such a theory is not true, but somehow it never quite sinks in.
For some time most of the big stores and a number of other shops have remained open on Wednesdays, the traditional early closing day.