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Why are supermarkets allowed to open all day on Sunday now?

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Denise34 · 12/08/2012 19:40

Just been past Tesco and noticed that they are now open from 6am to midnight on sundays! Has there been a change in the law?

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ilovesooty · 12/08/2012 20:27

I don't see why shops can't open on Christmas Day to be honest.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 12/08/2012 20:29

Well, it's not essential to be able to go to the shop on Christmas day, in the same way you have to have doctors working. I think it can be tough on people working in shops (who often don't earn a huge amount).

NovackNGood · 12/08/2012 20:31

Denise34 you are normally so in favour of the free market on these threads why are you so against sunday opening?

The other thing the Olympics has proven is that 80 thousand in stadia in the UK with access to alcohol do not a riot make anymore but a brilliant atmosphere so they should relax the alcohol rules for more events.

FredFredGeorge · 12/08/2012 20:33

Wednesday should be the day of rest - much more convenient to have it in the middle of the week.

LRD Then maybe giving the people who don't earn a huge amount the chance to earn more by working more hours would be helpful to them?

Pandemoniaa · 12/08/2012 20:33

Sunday should be the day of rest. It should be a family day

If that's what you'd prefer then by all means spend your Sunday resting with your family and avoid the shops altogether. Times have moved on (thankfully) from the days when the entire country shut for the day.

McHappyPants2012 · 12/08/2012 20:34

No to opening Christmas, I am working Christmas and it sucks :( people who do not need to work on Christmas shouldn't

LST · 12/08/2012 20:36

Pande my DP would like a day of rest on a Sunday.

Sunday evening was the only night we have together all week. And now some knob has decided to open asda longer he has to work til 11!

LRDtheFeministDragon · 12/08/2012 20:37

fred - I see what you mean, I just reckon it's not a lot of money for losing out that day. IME you don't generally get given the choice - if your place works Christmas day, someone gets that day on their rota if no-one will volunteer, so it's not always a case of wanting that day's wages, but more that you'd lose your job if you didn't work it. I think that can be tough.

LST · 12/08/2012 20:38

And shops should defiantly one hundred percent not open at Christmas. Asda is starting to open on boxing day and I think that's ridiculous

Birdsgottafly · 12/08/2012 20:38

My only objection when the supermarkets first opened on a Sunday was that it was still illegal, but they did it en masse knowing that the government couldn't afford to do anything about it.

It was a clear example of the most powerful breaking the law and the law being changed to accomodate this.

It was promised that working Sundays and late nights would not become part of a normal working week, but it has.

NovackNGood · 12/08/2012 20:39

Shop workers who do not want to work Chritmas Boxing day etc should bear in mind that those trading days are the ones that make most shops profitable for the whole years trading and allow them to employ said shopworkers doing a lot less during february march etc when the stores are losing money week in week out.

comelywench · 12/08/2012 20:39

yes yes LRD !

LST · 12/08/2012 20:43

Novak people still need food the day after boxing day....

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Denise34 · 12/08/2012 20:43

Opening on Christmas day and boxing day makes the shops profitable? How do you figure that out? Hardly anyone goes shopping on Christmas day. Shops are busy on boxing day because it's when the sales start. If shops were shut all through christmas and opened again on Jan 2nd, as they used to, they'd be just as busy then as they current are on boxing day.

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germyrabbit · 12/08/2012 20:45

i really don't see why they can't be open everyday at normal times, it's a bit antiquated that they have to close early at all on sundays. not everyone wants to sit on their arses on a sunday

LRDtheFeministDragon · 12/08/2012 20:45

Oh, loads of people shop on Christmas day. Lots of big shops have to price stuff for the sales early or they'd not get it done in time, so sometimes if you take something through the till on Christmas day it already comes up reduced.

One of the busiest shopping days of the year on the net, is Christmas day.

LST · 12/08/2012 20:46

germ you sound lovely

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Denise34 · 12/08/2012 20:48

It makes me sad that for many families, a Sunday day out is a trip to the supermarket or a shopping mall.

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germyrabbit · 12/08/2012 20:48

why? just because i think shops should be open?

NovackNGood · 12/08/2012 20:49

Denise no they would not be busy if they reopened on jan 2nd as DHL and fedex woudl have delivered everything everyone wanted and those sales labels and reductions for boxing day have to all go on which is why shops have to have their workers in.

To be honest those against the sunday opening I find are really just using it as a stealth move to push their theocratic agenda.

LST · 12/08/2012 20:49

Are you affected by the shops being open on a Sunday?

LST · 12/08/2012 20:50

And novak you are mistaken.

germyrabbit · 12/08/2012 20:51

no but i don't choose to work in a shop! if i did i would expect to work sundays.

NovackNGood · 12/08/2012 20:52

LST you are so wrong.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 12/08/2012 20:52

There's not always a huge amount of choice in it, germy.

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