To think Christmas day shoppers can't complain?

[HardHatOnin321]

About staff being made to work Christmas/shops being open?
Ex retail staff here - glad to be out of it. For 3yrs I continually worked every public holiday and event. On almost every one someone would come in and say
"God, I can't believe your open on x day! I don't like that... can't believe this" and so forth... or worse
"It's Christmas! Don't you have family to see"
Actually yeah I do including a young baby but unfortunately I'm stood here serving ungrateful gits was what I wanted to say, but I said nothing, smiled and wished her a merry Christmas.
Aibu to find it infuriating that every year, retail staff are confronted with this and it's widely complained about, yet a lot of these people flock to the shops between Xmas eve and Boxing Day while whining about shops being open ?
If you're one of these people who doesn't like it, bloody stay home!

I actually didn't know that there were any shops open on Christmas Day itself (apart from some petrol stations)

I can see why some people would want the shops open but I think YANBU - the sympathetic comments are rubbing it in rather!

I had the opposite experience when I used to work in a shop. The only day of the year we were closed was Christmas Day. The rest of the year,we were open from 8.30am - 10.30pm,even on a Sunday. Every year it was the same. Customers asking if we were open on Christmas Day,and expressing surprise,and even annoyance,when I said we weren't open. I felt like saying to them 'We are open for 14 hours a day every other bloody day of the year. Do you really begrudge us one day of being closed?' It was only a convenience/off licence store,so there was nothing really that they couldn't buy on Christmas Eve that they might need on Christmas day.

The tube closes Christmas Day. I am working at a station from 7am Boxing Day. My husband is whinging but I'm on a good wage. I appreciate that those in retail are on poorer conditions than me. Some rail services also have Boxing Day off too.

Shops in shopping centres are bound by the owners opening hours, it's part of the tenancy agreement

My regional manager told us to close early one Xmas Eve as he didn't want us there late, the shit storm that came after!!!
Now we open when we do no trade (as we don't have a same as such, well not one that is limited in numbers, so people are only in the clothes shops) which pisses staff off who could be home and we don't make what our pay comes to.

Last xmas day driving through Colorado I had chicken crackers for lunch and the boys had beef jerky. There was NOTHING open. What I would have given to be driving in England instead and being able to stop at a cozy pub for some food and a drink.