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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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PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 22:53

It’s an archaic law within an ever changing busy modern world.

Happyland8 · 15/04/2018 22:54

Religion, should of known

Grin
PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 22:55

If Sunday is a day of rest for some people that’s fine, stay in and rest. Let the rest of us shop after 4pm if we should need to due to what ever shit has happened the week before as to why we couldn’t get the shopping in earlier!

TinkyWinky40 · 15/04/2018 22:56

Wow.
So you think the supermarkets should close during the week and open on Sundays just to suit you?
Sunday trading laws prohibit more than 6 hours opening on a Sunday and rightly so, they used to be closed on Sundays full-stop. If you can’t fit your food shop during the 24 hours Monday morning until Saturday evening then that is entirely your fault.

Try standing up 6 days in a row, sometimes 12 hours a day, then tell retail workers they don’t deserve a break. I’ve been there and it was bloody hard on feet, ankles and back, I luckily left but have a lot of sympathy for those who continue to work in retail for low pay.
YABU.

CadyHeron · 15/04/2018 22:56

I didn't actually know this. Do pubs shut early in England too?

Yes, a lot of pubs still have the last order bell at 11pm.

Andrewofgg · 15/04/2018 22:56

notmypropername It’s a compromise from 1994, when there was no online trading, and it should be repealed in favour of retailers fixing their own hours.

Original poster
jnfrrss · 15/04/2018 22:57

It's staggering the amount of people that claim to not understand wanting to do a big shop on a Sunday night. It's the only evening I don't have something on and doing multiple shops is manjory annoying. Its enough of an effort to drive 4 hours home on a Sunday without taking some detour to do a mad rush just before 4pm to get shopping.

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PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 22:58

‘So you think the supermarkets should close during the week and open on Sundays just to suit you?’

No they should stay open during the week too. Retail workers won’t be working 7 days a week. That’s what shifts and a rota is for Hmm

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jnfrrss · 15/04/2018 22:59

Try standing up 6 days in a row, sometimes 12 hours a day, then tell retail workers they don’t deserve a break

You're being stupid.

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Happyland8 · 15/04/2018 22:59

Try standing up 6 days in a row, sometimes 12 hours a day, then tell retail workers they don’t deserve a break.

You do realise that the staff would still get their time off, just as they do now? This would most likely mean the stores would hire more Sunday staff. I've a lot of retail experience of working in Scotland and in England. I also worked in retail throughout my first pregnancy. No one is saying the staff shouldn't get time off 🙄

notmypropername · 15/04/2018 23:00

And for all those saying you deserve a break. I totally agree and that's why there is a big group of you working there so you all do differing shifts

Ladiva1971 · 15/04/2018 23:01

I work for a retail company and I cannot believe the people that bang on the door to buy kitchen roll??? Seriously?? That is not even a necessity

PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 23:03

Exactly some of the comments would suggest there is just one stress crazed retail worked manning an entire store day and night 6 and a half days a week yelling no don’t make me work a full Sunday!?! Angry

BonnieF · 15/04/2018 23:03

If I remember correctly, John Major’s government reformed the Sunday trading laws and the current restrictions came about as a typical British fudge. The government and big business wanted deregulation, but the churches (on the right) and unions (on the left) both lobbied against. Hence the current mess, when some shops are allowed to trade whatever hours they want, but others are not.

PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 23:03

worker*

RavenWings · 15/04/2018 23:03

Yanbu, I would hate to live with that system. Tbh, I worked in a supermarket during college and if we had had to have this imposed on us, I'd rather have had us close on a mid week day. Would have suited my student life much better.

And when I worked in the supermarket, I still mysteriously managed to get days off instead of being chained to a till. There is such a thing as a rota, after all.

Happyland8 · 15/04/2018 23:04

PassTheStarmix you're bang on Grin

PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 23:04

Ladiva kitchen roll is such a necessity when you have dc Hmm

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jnfrrss · 15/04/2018 23:08

Great posts! Just hilighting the disingenuous arguments as to not modernising shop hours. We aren't a religious country.

Sadly this government won't make any changes so it's going to be a long time before changing.

It didn't even cross my mind before moving here but it's really making my life alot more difficult than it needs to be.

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lardymclardy · 15/04/2018 23:12

I miss the days when everything was shut on a Sunday apart from the 'paper shop' which closed at 12 once you'd got your sweeties and a newspaper. The incessant need to buy buy buy drives me mad. Why would you want to trawl round town and the shops on a Sunday? What is wrong with just one chill out, cut off day at home? The January sales are now the Boxing Day sales - why would you want to be out shopping, after weeks of shopping for Christmas. It honestly does not equate with me. I feel sorry for those that work in retail and never get a decent break.

Mammyloveswine · 15/04/2018 23:14

With a husband who has worked in retail and me working mon-fri it was always nice knowing he was finished at 4 on Sunday. He worked 2-10 on a sat and 10-4 on a Sunday so that was our only weekend.

Yabvu. . Do your weekly shop on a different day? Also there are plenty of little shops open late into Sunday evening!

PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 23:15

‘What is wrong with just one chill out, cut off day at home? ’

Nothing but why does my chill out day have to be the same as yours? What if I want a Monday? Those that want to rest on a Sunday are perfectly free to baracade themselves indoors while the rest of us shop.

PasstheStarmix · 15/04/2018 23:18

‘With a husband who has worked in retail and me working mon-fri it was always nice knowing he was finished at 4 on Sunday. He worked 2-10 on a sat and 10-4 on a Sunday so that was our only weekend.’

That’s what they have shifts and a rota for and staff that only work weekdays or specific days a week. I’m pretty sure it would be illegal to have somebody working 24 hours. I’m also sure staff will finish their shift and new staff will replace them.

Original poster
jnfrrss · 15/04/2018 23:20

So all these shop workers don't get a decent rest? Hmm funny how in Scotland I've never heard anyone complain about it. It's just all bullshit arguments.

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blackteasplease · 15/04/2018 23:24

Yabu

There are supermarkets open 24 hours every other day! And long hours for those that don't. They are open on Sunday and give plenty of time to so shopping. You just need to organise yourself into any other part of the week!

And it gives employees a guaranteed bit of time off that supermarkets can't screw them out of.

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