To make you all aware that tescos and the like are open till midnight on a Sunday until September?

[Creamtea1]

What I said in the title

All the big 24/7 shut at 4pm on a Sunday round here too.

I'm a retail worker and I and everyone I know thinks this is a terrible idea!

We don't get any extra pay for weekends, Sunday working isn't optional, we already get a raw deal with bank holidays, Christmas etc. Most large supermarkets are already open from 8am on Monday morning until 10pm on Saturday night - I find it difficult to believe that people can't get their shopping done during those hours.

It won't just be supermarkets, all retailers will be affected. Me and my DP can only afford to run 1 car so if we're both at work on a Sunday or bank holiday one of us has to pay £20 for a taxi because public transport still runs Sunday/bank holiday hours.

We only get 1 day off together at Christmas and haven't had a bank holiday together in years.

I know people will say that we should do other jobs if we don't like it, but many people I know chose a career in retail before the days of Sunday opening, extended trading etc.

Please think about it -do you really need a new pair of shoes / tv / sofa at 10pm on a Sunday?

I feel for you English but if the service is there people will use it. I do appreciate the supermarket staff. I am always polite and friendly and I think they do a fantastic job.

I remember there was a thread a few christmases ago when next opened at 6am on Boxing Day - lost of people who were Next workers who had had to stay until christ knows when on Christmas Eve to sort out the sale rails. For no extra pay I can't imagine.

It does sound shit. But - there is a huge demand for it I think, which will tip the balance with the supermarkets.

I do sympathise though for those who work in shops - English that does sound grim.

yabu i really would rather not know

It will depend where you are - Sunday Trading and licensing laws are not the same across all the home nations.

Eg my nearest Tesco is 24/7 (Aberdeen), my dad's nearest is 10-4 on sundays normally (Merseyside) but according to website is operating the extended hours.

Our huge Tesco is open 25hrs but closes on Sundays at 4pm. Will be useful for emergency packed lunch dashes

We're in Nottinghamshire and Tesco are doing 24 hours here.

Plenty of shelf stackers are in working overnight anyway so not sure there's going to be huge numbers of staff working who weren't already.

Looking forward to being able to walk to Tesco on a Sunday evening after a weekend away rather than having to drive to the nearest express store

I think its customer led tbh - I remember working in a Supermarket and getting endless complaints that we weren't opening on boxing day. Because the £400 trolley of stuff you just bought clearly won't last 2 days.

I think I get a bit defensive because retail and restaurant workers are looked down on so much (see Superdrug thread}. I have a degree, I earn decent money as a shop manager but I get sworn at, patronised, threatened and looked down upon daily by people they're better than me because I work in a shop! Bar / restaurant workers get exactly the same.

If someone was to suggest all banks / insurance offices / doctors surgeries / solicitors etc. etc. should open all day on a sunday there would be outrage yet these services are surely more 'essential' than clothes shops?

Rant over - just fed up with service industries getting crap thrown at them

Don't forget online shopping too. We've never had so much choice or time to shop so I don't think it needs to change - we'll just have to be more organised

Call me dim, but I honestly don't see the relationship between longer shopping hours and the Olympics

Unless it's been pushed through by CocaCola and other sponsors to allow even more opportunities to buy their toxins products!?

Valium - 25hrs LOL!!

Oh yes, we have an extra hour in the day where I live in Valium land

tyler it would make a huge difference. In addition to manning the tills there will be fitting rooms, support staff, security, car park.

Security in particular is a concern - every drunk / shoplifter / junkie flock to the supermarkets at night. I can tell you from experience there is nothing nice about having to challenge drunk shoplifters in the middle of a bleak industrial estate with no police station for miles, or finding Syringes in the toilets, or razorblades on the shelves down the booze aisle where security tags have been cut off.

It's really grim.

Oh my lord just looked at the 'superdrug' thread....that's a half hours work gone right there..

If and when I do go to my tesco at 10pm on a Sunday I will always be polite and chatty to the staff (standard offering of 'been busy?') it's usually the other people in there who are the nutters!

Its ok creamtea - I know there are lots of nice customers too!

I have a friend online and he is a Doctor. He says that the profession is no longer respected these days and the public on the whole treat him like shyte. I was . I have 'known' him a while and he has always said this.

Ooh GetOrf me too! Where do you live?

This actually bothers me a little bit if our local supermarket is open until midnight on sundays in August - we live right next to it. How do we know what stores are doing it? I need my beauty sleep!

They don't open fitting rooms, makeup counters etc. past 10 pm round here anyway. Security are always in even when the shop not open. The two armed robberies have actually happened when the store is closed to the public.

Used to work nights in Tesco's, numbers of staff on Friday night when we were open wasn't hugely different to Saturday nights when we weren't

I live in Gloucester nini (some poor shmuck has to)

schmuck

sole when I had DS I was absolutely amazed by how rude some patients were to the midwives, HCA's etc. Some people really do think that they have the right to talk down to someone just because they are the customer

tyler I worked in Asda and it was very different on open nights to closed nights. A lot of supermarkets will see a huge difference. Also in Nottinghamshire btw so isn't a regional thing. I think it's more about where the store is located.

Oh yes indeedy - I live in Cheltenham. Actually there's very little difference between them these days, folk here just think they're better than everyone else.