To think most shops should be shut on Sundays

[withthefeelignofgreece]

I have family in Jersey and over there most shops are shut on a Sunday.
AIBU to think this could be a good idea to introduce here in the UK?
It would give retail workers a Sunday off every week from having to work.

Oh, what a good idea , let's completely kill the high street off.

That works absolutely fine if you work a standard Monday to Friday 9-5 but for us shift workers, sometimes Sunday is the only day we get a chance to get to the shop.

Nonsense. It was like this was I was younger, wasn’t good.

Why do people fixate know retail like this? Do you want all the hospitality venues to close too? What about theme parks, museums, all visitor attractions? Cinemas?

I mean they’re all unnecessary too. Why should people have to work on a Sunday so people can wander round a national trust site and have a cake in the cafe?

*when

I have sympathy for anyone who doesn't want to work weekends but has to in order to make ends meet, but I remember the 80's when the entire town centre was closed on a Sunday bar a few pubs, arcades, burger joints and the like, and it was dreary, depressing, and monotonous as hell. It's not like going shopping is the only thing to do on a Sunday in current times, but when you are a teenager and not able to just jump in the car and drive anywhere, getting out of the house, away from the parents, and going into town with your friends was pretty much the entirety of your social life, so having next to nothing to do on one of the two days of the week you were entirely free was an absolute drag.

I used to hate Sundays, still do to be honest, because the genuinely used to depress me they were so dull and full of forboding.

Do you work full time OP (by full time, I do mean leaving home around 7am and getting back also around 7pm, 5 days a week...not the MN version of 'full time' which appears to be a job that fits inbetween school drop off/pick up!!)

I do...and have work to do at home too (when I eventually get there!) Some weeks I struggle to even get to Tesco on a Sunday...and I find myself scrapping around the bottom of my fridge for something to make a meal out of...I'm single so nobody to share the load of weekend jobs (that I have no time to do during the week!!!)

So NO...sod off with your notion of closing shops on a Sunday!!

It’s annoying how people decide ‘shopping’ is just frivolous consumerism so they decide no one needs to do it on a Sunday.

surely all the people working on a Sunday so others can watch tv, drive somewhere for a day out or to visit people, eat out, play golf, your kids can play football or do swimming lessons, and so on deserve a day off too. After all, there’s no need to be doing that on a Sunday either. A desire to watch some televised sport isn’t actually superior to someone who wants to buy a dress, is it?

What about hotel staff?

Hotel staff in places you want to go on holiday? Let’s give them all Sunday off too.

That's true, but I was making a tongue in cheek comment about how it works in retail - and afaik, all shop workers can opt out of working on a Sunday.

This. It is an old religious view and that doesn't need pushed onto others who aren't interested. Faith is dying out anyway, most people who actually go to church now are over 50. It's not something the new generations bother doing anymore.

Genie is out of the bottle.

We live differently and have different expectations.

I don’t think most who argue for it now are actually religious. They seem to be saying workers need a break.

But they do get a break. Niece used to work full-time for Sainsburys. She had 2 days off a week. Just not necessarily Sunday.

We live in Scotland where there are not the Sunday restrictions there are in England. When we travel south of the border over the weekend it takes a lot of adjusting to.

No thanks. Retail workers, like all workers, should have a right to maximum hours, though.

Why does the break have to be on a Sunday though? There seems to be a misconception that retail workers work 7 days a week. They don't. I get the same days off every week, and it's actually pretty great to have weekdays off work. Shops are quieter, and I have time to deal with stuff where the offices do open Mon - Fri 9-5.

Alot of people work on Sundays as they're not in 9-5 Mon-Fri operating businesses.
24/7 is normal in Hospitals, many production facilities, shipping, etc.
I don't see why the retail industry should be singled out.
Working weekends suits many peoples lifestyles.

Just been in Berlin, shops shut on Sunday and it reminded me how nice that was!

You really don’t like physical retail, do you? You want it wiped it altogether.

These people usually tend to be the progressive, middle class types, living in leafy towns with all the time in the world on their hands to go to ‘artisan’ shops and pay over the odds. Being all virtuous and telling others how horrible they are for wanting the shops to be open on sundays and engaging in mindless consumerism.

Its like they just stepped out of a satire sketch and don’t realize that everyone is laughing at them.

No they can’t

and they don’t get paid extra like they used to 😩

i think that for some retails staff it can absolutely work but i also know a few shops that struggle to get people ‘happy’ to work weekends and i think that can probably be extrapolated out

i think its too late to get the genie back in the bottle

I did not see sunglasses post

too many genies 🧞‍♀️

Oh no I think shops should open Sunday and normal hours..

Hilarious 😆

not seen an answer as to why shop workers are so special and indeed why Sunday is so special on our secular society

i am so fed up with people wanting the country run to suit themselves. If you don’t want to go shopping on a Sunday, don’t go. Leave the rest of us to if

*No they can’t

and they don’t get paid extra like they used to*

a) who can't? And why not?

b) I get paid extra, and I only started working in retail a few months ago. There are places that still pay extra if people look around. And honestly, we've struggled to get staff recently and I don't think we are alone in that, so it's not like the jobs aren't available.