to hope they keep the extended shopping hours on a sunday

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I am a bit of a loser shopaholic and I love the current extended shopping hours on s Sunday, my local town centre shops are now open 10-6. I love drive,but it seems to help traffic congestion too, as shoppers are less concentrated.

Aibu to wonder why there is a restriction in the first place?

agree with LadyBeagle and Hecate

actually Lady beagle just realised we wrote very similar post earlier but I missed yours first time

For me it would be excellent to have everywhere open longer on a Sunday. I don't work in a shop though and neither does DH. People deserve a break. When Sunday trading for supermarkets started people used to get paid extra for working Sundays. Now they don't. If they extend hours it will be another step towards full time opening. I'd actually like them to cut Sunday hours back to 10am-2pm [awkward]

Id much prefer longer hours during the week.

I travel by train to work, as do a lot of my colleagues, the station is in a medium shopping centre you have to walk through. My work give a ?bonus? payment if you use public transport so I know that several hundred people pass through this centre where most of the shops close at 5. And morst of us finish at and around 5.

So if I need to pick up a birthday card, or milk etc., I have to go to Tesco?s or Sainsbury?s.
And surely longer opening hours would benefit women more? job shares etc. more part-time work etc?

Even if it was only till 7, which is the norm where I used to live

I have 3 retail workers and an emergency services worker here. Trying to get a day off together is like pissing in the wind.

You make it sound like you have them in a cupboard under the stairs

That's the only way I can get to see them all at once

MrsLocog

"YANBU - as long as shop workers have at least one of the two weekend days off to spend with family (which would have to be a legal requirement to make sure it happened)."

This is hillarious! This will never be a legal requirement, all days of the week are considered the same in nearly ALL retail job contracts.

And to those who have said you can 'opt out' of working on a Sunday - also another MYTH.

Well it could be a legal requirement if Sunday trading laws are reviewed - I understand it isn't currently but there is no reason not to (albeit widly optimistically) dream that there could be different terms and conditions.

There's no need to tell me that my theorising is hilarious - in fact, did you mean to be so rude?

I'm in England and both my local supermarkets (Tesco and Sainsburys) are open 6am-11pm every day, including Sunday. I imagine this is legal? So how come none of you seem to have this?

MrsLocog

the problem is you could NEVER pass a law saying people can't work both Saturday and Sunday. What if they want to?

I think Mon-Sat opening is sufficient. If you need to shop on a Sunday, do it online :)

Cumbria
The small one can because they are classed as convenience stores.

In Scotland here too, where our shops are always open on Sundays with the only thing being a 10am opening, other than that they do the same hours?

Putri

Do you ever dine out on a Sunday?

YANBU. I think it's shite that a smaller convenience store can be open til ten pm on a Sunday but someone decided that supermarkets have to adhere to an outdated idea that Sunday is sacrosanct.

The impact on me of extended trading hours is that we are expected to trade longer-great for me as we are smashing our targets so bonusses all round-but we have no extra payroll to accommodate this extra working hours.
So I suddenly have to stretch my already limited money to go further,and am having to rota staff to work until 11pm,not something I'm always comfortable with when I know my young female staff are travelling across London past midnight.

Why is it an outdated idea?

YABU

Firstly, as many retail workers have noted because they will bear the brunt of the rubbish shifts. It also makes it even harder for single parents to find work in retail if they have to work Sundays.

Secondly, I would hate it, because shopping is not my idea of a leisure activity. I used to go running in these lovely woods on a Saturday afternoon, and they were always deserted because everyone was in town spending more money they didn't have on crap they didn't need. We don't need more of that culture.
What's wrong with having just one day a week when we try not to consume?

Thirdly, all these things which are supposed to make our lives more "convenient" rarely do. They just stop people from planning properly. See mobile phones.

Lastly, ever heard of corner shops? They used to be where you would nip into if you suddenly needed tea/tinned tomatoes/bog roll on a Sunday evening.
They are already dying at a rate of of knots due to the big 3 opening their own convenience stores and undercutting them.
We still have a few here, and I would so much rather use them on a Sunday evening if I needed (and pick up a paper, some samosas, and have a chat to the shopkeeper while I am at it) than go to fucking Tesco.

Baygreen
Could you not have got some temporary staff in for the Olympic weeks? Just like you might at Christmas?

Nowthenwreck

I think you are looking through rose tinted glasses. Having lived in London prior to supermarkets being here I can't tell you how limiting, expensive and vile some of the local convenience store food was. There was nowhere else to shop though so we made do. It certainly wasn't great though.

Nitty,no we are only allowed to recruit temp staff at Xmas,we have just had to stretch out our usual team.it just means longer periods when we have minimal staff,when the late team come on the crossover of the two teams is much shorter IYSWIM?

Yes I understand Baygreen, didn't realise you had no authority on the matter. I would have taken it up with HQ though about leaving after midnight and cabs.

But Nowthenwreck, if you work on weekends you get all the other days of the week to run in the lovely woods, when the majority of the population is working.
And as you're online at the moment then you are using something that was not available in your 'rose tinted' world. (thanks for that nittyclitty )
Can I just ask if you have a mobile phone?