Ok admit it, anyone else get caught out by the Easter Sunday supermarkets closing trickery?

[Pyri]

Or am I the only numpty that didn’t realise the shops would be shut and had to make a mercy dash around various local stores to get anything for today?!

It's Easter Sunday! We've known for ages. What on earth would you need apart from mint sauce lol

Haha not me! I know supermarkets are shut on Easter Sunday because as a teenager my mum invited my grandparents and her sister and family all down for dinner. At lunchtime she went to tesco and discovered it was closed. We ended up with a pizza delivery on Easter Sunday. My grandma was not amused

Supermarkets have always shut on Easter Sunday, nothing new there.

I'm sure the local garage which has a spar shop is open and has plenty of stuff in it. otherwise, yes, i hadn't realised!

Easter Sunday and Christmas Day are the only two days by law large shops have to get closed all day in England.

Every bloody year.

I’m quite stupid and disorganised though and dh usually does the weekly shop on a Sunday 🤦🏽‍♀️

Have you only just moved to this country? If not surely you have experienced an Easter Sunday before?

Big shops have to shut on two days each year, by law. Easter Sunday and Christmas Day.
It's the same every year. Always has been.

Just googled and it's shops over 280 square metres.

Two days a year the supermarkets are closed, no super memory skills needed to retain that

It's Easter Sunday. One of the 2 days a year shops close.

Our full size coop is closed. The smaller supermarkets are open. Same as every year. It shouldn't be a surprise. But I grew up with half day closing on Wednesday and Saturday and Sunday being fully closed.

In my defence though, we don’t celebrate Easter and I have so much stress going on, I couldn’t even tell you the day or date most of the time.

B&Q, other DIY sheds and garden centres are closed as well.

I feel like it’s one of those things you only have to know once then you know it forever, but if you’ve never known it you’d have no reason to if you see what I mean?!

Last 2 years have been online deliveries so I had no concept of it, before then I lived in central London where there is no mega store centrally / didn’t have a car so everything done locally

Yes, we’re not christians so we don’t celebrate easter, we managed to get an emergency prescription (we usually use a pharmacy in tesco) at boots. When we ordered it, it didn’t say the pharmacy was closed (its often open with the aisles of tesco closed off).

This has always been the case. With reduced opening hours on Good Friday and BH Monday too.
If desperate get down to a smaller shop like a Spar, or the local petrol station.

I didn't realise but I've always worked on Easter, on mat leave this year so it's only just dawned on me!

The Entertainer was founded by a Christian and they always close on a Sunday. I think if I worked there it would be something I'd appreciate, despite not being religious. I work shifts, and a working today, and tomorrow, but the place is dead! I think we should return to "ye good olde days" when people weren't forced to work on Bank Holidays.

Tesco Express is your friend. They never seem to close.

@Sparklingbrook

This has always been the case. With reduced opening hours on Good Friday and BH Monday too. If desperate get down to a smaller shop like a Spar, or the local petrol station.

Well yes, I realise this is the solution now

Not this year but one year about a decade ago after clearing my DGMs home and feeling shattered I then had to go out quite late to get supplies.

Now we eat out!

Ha, yes, just went to Waitrose with the kids 🤦🏻‍♀️

We had a Greggs sausage roll and a coffee outside instead while I listened to my 10yo tell me how everyone knows the shops are shut on Easter Sunday (so why didn’t she remind me before she left?!)

Every year. Every bloody year I get caught by this. You’d think I’d learn…

Caught me out too - was just about to pop to Ikea!

Simonjt pharmacies usually take turns to open on Easter/Christmas Day so this year it must have been your local Boots turn.
My mum used to work at Boots and she said when it was their turn to be the designated pharmacy there would always be a few customers turning up expecting to be open as normal when it would actually just be the Pharmacist and Dispensery people there and they would only open the door to hand over the meds. They weren't 'open' open.
They apparently had an unwritten rule that if someone turned up after baby formula they would let them get it but "ooh while I'm here can I grab some shampoo and put my photos in" was always a sharp "no"

Well yes, I realise this is the solution now

And actually there's no 'trickery' involved at all