Opening at 11 on Sunday....

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AIBU to find the trend for 11-5 opening hours in a Sunday a real PITA?

I'm up and about trying to get stuff done and half the bloody shops aren't open until 11

11-5 is much better than 10-4. YABU.

I think some people are looking back with rose tinted glasses here. Sundays could be really boring back in the days when all shops were shut. "Family time" meant the woman was up early to prep a roast for sunday lunch, then the men could piss of down the pub for a couple of hours whilst the woman cleared away the lunch. He could come back, watch a bit of sport and have a nap whilst she was prepping a tea of sandwiches and cake etc.

Yes what lovely family time that was.

Even if they shut all the shops again now on a sunday how many would actually have "family time?"

Some places are 12-6 and I love that even more than 11-5!

golden Did you video some of my childhood weekends?

Grandstand on the telly. Mum in the kitchen making food. Me and my siblings occupying ourselves.

It wasn't bad, but it was hardly this cosy warm family time image that some are conveying.

Sundays could be really boring back in the days when all shops were shut. "Family time" meant the woman was up early to prep a roast for sunday lunch, then the men could piss of down the pub for a couple of hours whilst the woman cleared away the lunch. He could come back, watch a bit of sport and have a nap whilst she was prepping a tea of sandwiches and cake etc.

sounds like nothing has changed for some posters if you believe some of the threads on here

but that was never my mum or grandmother's life either, even back in the olden days.

I’ve never worked for an employer who shut for any bank holiday except Xmas and New Year.

all private companies I worked for and with close on bank holidays. Of course many services do need to remain open and people to work, but it's really not uncommon for businesses to be shut.
Some parts of London are absolutely dead on bank holidays, not one office opened. You can even park that's how dead it is

I hate not being able to work on bank holidays. I’d much rather decide when I have time off than the state.

It's 1pm-6pm here and I like it. Lazy morning, maybe go for brunch or footer around the house before doing whatever you need to do shopping wise. And because the shops are open to 6pm you can have a day out and stop to get stuff for tea on the way home rather than rushing back. 10am-4pm is way less convenient for us- we've been caught out with stores closing at 4pm when over at the in-laws and I've been forced to have a dessertless Sunday lunch

The Sundays of my youth sound like above.

Dad in bed till about 10, then up to fix things. Mum prepped the veg, church then straight home to cook. Me and my brother packed to Sunday school 😔 and that was bloody boring. Back to change then tea at grandparents house, full of acrid fag smoke.

Every Sunday the same. Totally boring.

Glad my kids don’t have that regime.

”Sundays could be really boring back in the days when all shops were shut. "Family time" meant the woman was up early to prep a roast for sunday lunch, then the men could piss of down the pub for a couple of hours whilst the woman cleared away the lunch. He could come back, watch a bit of sport and have a nap whilst she was prepping a tea of sandwiches and cake etc.”

”Grandstand on the telly. Mum in the kitchen making food. Me and my siblings occupying ourselves”

It wasn’t necessarily any better if dad didn’t like sport - mine didn’t - but that didn’t mean that dsis and I got to watch TV on a Sunday - for two reasons. Firstly, TV before 4pm was Forbidden by my mum (unless it was Wimbledon, which she wanted to watch), and secondly because the programmes on Sunday were beyond boring. If you didn’t like sport, you got Songs of Praise, One Man and his Dog, Antiques Roadshow, or some terribly worthy BBC adaptation of the most tedious books - usually Dickens.

My memories of Sunday’s as a child/teenager are pretty much me, in my bedroom, reading a book, or, for 26 thrilling weeks, listening to Lord of the Rings being serialised on radio 4, whilst mum and dad gardened, and dsis sat in her room, reading (she was not a Tolkien fan so was denied the thrill of those 26 weeks.

And how can I have forgotten - dad listening to The Archers omnibus on R4!

I work for the Railway and we don’t Shut ever apart from Xmas day. We don’t get uplifted pay on bank holidays either.
Before I worked I used to hate bank hols, so boring, nothing open at all if you fancied a wonder into town.
I don’t understand why certain people NEED Sunday’s and bank holidays off, I’d be willing to bet 60% of workers now just work shifts and aren’t entitled to particular days off.
No offence to retail workers but they really can be a little precious at times with their Sunday’s/bank holidays when there are restaurant/transport/pubs/leisure centre staff working all throughout the year 7 days a week

yabu
I wish shops were closed one day a week.

The company I work for is open all bank holidays except Christmas and New Year. I don’t work on a weekend in this job but I have in others.

I have seen good, convincing arguments for shops to be open all day Sunday and good, convincing arguments for them to be entirely shut. I have never seen a good, convincing argument for the weird compromise we actually have in England.

I remember when shops were closed every Sunday and we managed. I think a late opening must be nice for retail staff as it means they can go to Saturday events and have a normal social life.

I prefer working a sunday to a Saturday (I do a mix) as I get a little longer with my kids before and after work doing 10-4 rather than 9-5.30. Its handy that some of the shops here are 10.30-4.30 or 11-5 here as it means I can go to them after work and people working until 5 have an hour to come to our shop 1st.
I think I'd want to just work Saturdays if they were the same length. We dont get many perks in retail so a shorter day on a Sunday is something I'd like to keep.

I remember when shops were closed every Sunday and we managed

I remember it too. Yes, we managed, but I honestly found it a pain in the arse. I could only do my shopping on Saturday because of work in the week. I like having the choice of going on Sunday now. As do many people I know.

I remember when supermarkets and big retailers first started opening on Sunday and what a ridiculous fuss was made by the clergy, some of whom went and held services in them near to where we lived at the time, saying "If you can't come to us now, we will come to you" or that sort of bollocks. Thankfully that sort of shit soon subsided.

I'm in Ireland. Supermarkets are open until 9/10pm on Sundays but the 2 local garden centres are closed all day Sunday, which seems odd to me.
Lots of independent shops inc. estate agents close 1-2pm for lunch during the week. It can be a right pain if you're nipping out during your lunch break to discover the place you want to buy from is closed. I particularly dislike the 'closed for twenty minutes' notes on the door because they don't tell you when they plan to re-open and you can guarantee they will be closed for a lot longer than 20 mins.
I once nipped to an estate agents (auctioneers) to discover a hand written closed note on the door and a huge bunch of keys left in the door...

Kudos for getting up early on Sundays! Where I live all the large retailers observe that, but in the Malls the coffee shops are open earlier so you can go & have a relaxing coffee while you wait for larger things to open. The smaller High Street Superdrugs & Poundland etc are open at 10am too .

RaininSummer why are retail workers a special sort entitled to a "normal social life" (whatever that is)? Why not hospitality and leisure workers? Or other non vital service workers who must work Sundays? I've always found the campaign for better retail working hours bizarre. At least they don't see in midnight on Christmas and New Year's cleaning up their establishments after Christmas parties. I'm not sure why they're entitled to a better social life.

I work Sundays in retail. We open at 10am but it's a waste of time - it's absolutely deserted before lunchtime. People are around - but they're doing things like swimming, walking the dog or having brunch - not shopping!

The one saving grace of working Sundays is finishing an hour early but still getting paid for regular hours. Today is my first Sunday off in months and it makes such a difference not to have to work all weekend for a change!

I remember when shops were closed every Sunday and we managed

We also managed with the reference library before the internet. We managed with larders before fridges. We managed with candles before light bulbs. Is that the most you want from life - to manage?

I worked in a supermarket and still had to do an 8 hour shift on a Sunday was there 2 hours before opening but it always went really quickly! Didn’t make a difference to not working as much Sunday’s though, think it’s a really outdated law