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Original poster

To think some large supermarkets should be open until 8pm

387 replies

jnfrrss · 15/04/2018 21:34

Fed up of getting back on a Sunday after a busy hetic weekend and having to do my shop at a Tesco garage.

There's three large supermarkets in my town and all close at 4pm on a Sunday. Why can't at least one do an evening shift?

After being used to Scottish shops it really sucks in England. Sunday evening would be perfect for me to do a shop. I just dont like online shopping either, but if they have to work Sunday late evenings why is it so different for the shop workers?

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crocuspie · 16/04/2018 21:36

How does a shop not opening till ten or eleven enable shop workers to go to church? All the services I know of start at ten or at eleven.

Original poster
jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 21:36

Well if it benefits no one why do places in Scotland choose to open longer?

Are you really being serious? It's pretty obvious that longer opening hours helps compete with online.

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Original poster
jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 21:38

Catholic church capagin. So progressive and with the times Hmm

To think some large supermarkets should be open until 8pm
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iBiscuit · 16/04/2018 21:41

OP when you order groceries online, how long do they take to arrive?

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jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 21:44

Amazon prime now is two hours but can't get everything. Why?

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ICantCopeAnymore · 16/04/2018 21:46

I worked boxing day.

Asda collection lockers? LOL. I live in rural Wales. We don't have an Asda.

I'm glad you think my disabilities are ridiculous. Bye, now Smile

ICantCopeAnymore · 16/04/2018 21:47

@jnfrrss Wow, that campaign 😂 I thought I was a Mum every day, not just on a Sunday.

Religion is so absolutely ridiculous.

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jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 21:48

I know! If shops are open a few more hours on Sunday it means mums can't be mums Grin

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iBiscuit · 16/04/2018 21:49

Good luck getting much from Amazon within two hours in most of the UK, let alone Scotland, OP Grin

Coveredinbeeeeeeeeeeeees · 16/04/2018 21:52

Remember when shops didn't open on Sundays? WE MANAGED AND NO ONE DIED

Fuck off with that.

Do you still use a mangle for your washing? We didn't need any of them new fangled automatic clothes washing doodads back in my day! Nah cause you're all on the Internet - they didn't have that in your day did they, old folks?

Just because you coped back then doesn't mean it has to remain that way forever.

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jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 21:54

Amazon is rapidly expanding its food operations, will never go rural but the majority that live in cities could make sure some shop workers never have to go into work on Sunday, or any other day.

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octonaught · 16/04/2018 21:57

Unfortunately shopping has become a hobby.
Being a 24 hour society is a miserable thing
“Even” retail workers deserve a quality of life

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jnfrrss · 16/04/2018 22:01

"I think all shops should close on Sundays so that everyone has time off, you can order shopping to be delivered on a Sunday or go out to a restaurant for dinner" Hmm

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gandalf456 · 16/04/2018 22:34

I work in retail . I used to finish at 4.30 on Sundays but now it's been extended to 6. Even though we're shut, we have a 24/7 operation.

I do miss finishing earlier. I'm lucky because I am still on the old contract with premium pay but new starters don't get it as Sunday is a normal working day now.

We do have rotas but they don't have to give you 2 days off in a row every week (it's every fortnight).

Regular office workers have it far easier in terms of sociable hours and better pay and they are the ones who complain most if the shops are shut. They'd soon complain if they were asked to work.

I don't see the problem myself. You can easily pick up more than the basics at a Tesco Express. They are pretty well stocked for a small shop

mirime · 16/04/2018 22:40

DH works in retail. He's worked 11 days in a row. He's had late finishes and early starts. He often doesn't get all his breaks as there's not always enough staff in.

Retail is often a crap job where you get treated like shit by management as well as customers for minimum wage or not much more.

People can talk about how retail staff get other days off (great DH can have a weekday off - when I'm in work and DS is in school. Thanks for that.) and about shifts and rotas, but truth is often the priority of the person responsible is to have all the opening hours covered by something approaching the correct number of staff.

SpacePenguin · 16/04/2018 22:56

As an irregular visitor to the UK, I find it extremely baffling that 24 hour stores are not, in fact, open 24 hours. I've been caught out a couple of times

turnipfarmers · 16/04/2018 23:25

@icantcopeanymore no, I'm a disabled single parent without a carer.

GnotherGnu · 16/04/2018 23:33

How does a shop not opening till ten or eleven enable shop workers to go to church? All the services I know of start at ten or at eleven.

Many churches have early communion at around 8, and evensong at 5 or 6.

SemperIdem · 17/04/2018 00:50

Non 24 hour supermarkets are open about 95 hours a week. 24 hour supermarkets are open about 150 hours. How very restrictive Hmm

Coveredinbeeeeeeeeeeeees · 17/04/2018 06:01

To those whinging about working in retail - go work somewhere else if you hate it so much

falang · 17/04/2018 06:12

No. I like that fact that shops close early on a Sunday. We don't need all shops open all the time. I work full time and mange very well to fit in shopping when they are open.

S0upertrooper · 17/04/2018 07:16

I remember when I discovered this law in England. We had moved from Scotland and had returned from a weekend Home and swung into the 24hr Tesco for supplies for the week. We were totally confused how it said 24hrs but shut at 4pm.

I now do that shop at a service station on the way back.

I can still hear myself 'But it says 24 HOURS!!!!'

gandalf456 · 17/04/2018 07:55

What if we all went to work elsewhere? Anyway, I am looking. ..

jasjas1973 · 17/04/2018 08:14

To those whinging about working in retail - go work somewhere else if you hate it so much

I was at a Morrisons the other Sunday, doing some IT work, the duty manager hated his job, had little time off, worked hours that quite frankly would be classed illegal if the min wage was enforced and because of family debts (mortgage), cant retrain nor afford to take a lower paid job.
If the economic power house that is Germany can operate with supermarkets closed on a Sunday, then so should we - most of europe operates much stricter hours on a sunday than we do.

I d love to go back to pre Sunday opening hours, we ve all been conned by the big supermarkets to believe they are opening for our benefit......yeah right.

MsHopey · 17/04/2018 08:37

I gave up reading at page 5.
But Sunday evening's were the only time we could have evenings out with our work colleagues as the store was closed. Otherwise someone would obviously have been rotaed to work. Might bot seem like a big deal but it did help the team moral.
I would also like to add that the trading hours law was abolished for 8 weeks or so when the Olympics were in London to help people with their shopping. I love and work in the West Midlands (no where near london) and the Tesco I worked in stayed open 24/7 including on a Sunday. We didn't get many customers. But most shopswould stay open, so it is the law that's stopping them.