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.

No thank you very much. I'm a single mother and it would make my life exponentially harder if I couldn't shop on one weekend day.

I moved to London to get away from nonsense like this and I don't want it reinstated.

I grew up in a one parent family in the 1970s and 80s, supermarkets opened late. Now with deliveries even less of an issue. Why do people always use these spurious factors as clinchers. No single parents in Germany, they seem
To manage quite well!

I vote no and I assume the owners and shareholders of retail business wouldn't be that keen on losing a 7th of their trade

Agree. I was once told by a CEO of a Furniture Company that a lot of 'big purchases' are made on a Sunday when both partners in a household can be available.

No. There's a reason it was changed, and judging by how busy they can get on a Sunday it's needed.

Sunday is a very arbitrary day! Why not say a weds? Better for those who work all week so they can access shops on sunday and allows retail staff a midweek break.

I work I home delivery so we don't do Christmas Eve Boxing Day or New Years Day. We are envied by the rest of the staff every year 🤣🤣

Yabu. My dh is from Western Isles and when we go visit and everything is shut on a Sunday its pretty annoying and inconvenient. It's mainly for religious views up there and I don't think they should be pushed on everyone.

If retail staff deserve Sunday off, what about hospitality staff? Surely all the cafes, restaurants and pubs should shut too. And anything like the cinema or theatre. It isn't fair they should have to work Sundays if retail staff don't.

Essential services are essential but I think it'd be great for families that all eateries, shops, supermarkets are closed one day a week!!

Or not...

Shops in Germany are open much longer these days.

And no, shops were not open longer in the 70s and 80s, they closed at 5.30. What you did have was lots of corner shops which opened long hours.

I’ll bet you are

i did get get cheesed offby people shopping on boxing day and telling me how sorry they were that i was working on boxing day

i wasn’t particularly tactful when I replied…polite obviously but not tactful 😀

once when there was a red alert for snow and all the offices were ‘evacuated’ in effect, a number of people decided to pop to the shops and tell the people working in the store i worked in that they had been sent home because of the dangerous weather but had gone shopping instead

probably just as well i wasnt working that day 😀

Sunday should be repackaged as the "secular sabbath". A day of rest and reflection for everyone. All shops should be closed including online shopping.

I worked in retail when I was at school and uni. It would have screwed me up to have only been able to work Saturday.
Now I work full time Monday-Friday so the only chance I get to shop is at the weekend. If I couldn't go on Sunday I'd have to buy online more, which I'm trying to get away from.

I lived in Berlin and a few supermarkets do open on a Sunday. They all have ginormous queues outside them the entire day, so clearly there's a market for Sunday opening.

Why? Why can't some people rest on other days? I've just had a very lazy day today.

What about essential workers - emergency services, hospital staff, care workers, cleaners and kitchen staff in hospitals and care homes - are they not included in 'everyone' or do we just leave those services unstaffed once a week?

Saturdays in supermarkets will be a total nightmare, as loads of Monday to Friday workers will be doing their shopping on one day instead of spread over two.

@user143677433 God no! Do you have any idea how mind-numbingly boring the 80s were? you use shops for entertainment?

People can rest on Sunday and the other day of the week which they have off.

Essential workers would still have to work sunday where deemed necessary. Because they are essential. Shopping on sunday is not essential.

More people will go shopping in the evening as shops will open longer.

Yes, I get that they can rest on Sunday. But why does it have to be Sunday? Why can't it be Tuesday or Friday for some people?

Why do you want to force 'everyone' into having the same day off?

This!!!

Shopping on Sunday is essential if it's the only day off you have, and you work evenings.

You do realise not everyone works some cushy Mon-Fri 9-5 job or is a SAHM.

Ha, are you the person that flamed my gran years back for putting her washing out on a Sunday?

Ha, are you the person that flamed my gran years back for putting her washing out on a Sunday?

I've never had a 'laundry day' but if I had come across that person, I'm pretty sure I would be doing my washing and hanging it out every Sunday. Even if it was raining. So funny how some people think that how they live their life should be how everyone else lives theirs!

Why does it bother you that shops are open on a Sunday?

I had my first job as a sales assistant working only on Sundays. I remember when Sundays were everything shut days.

if you don’t want to shop on a Sunday, don’t.

why do you need everyone else to be unable to shop on a Sunday?

Sundays are when we race around getting bits that the DC have forgotten to tell us they need for the week, or do our top up shops or the monthly shop. The weekdays are filled with work and school. I am very very glad shops are open on a Sunday.

@HouseofHolbein I'd have Boxing Day closures of non-food stores as the first change above all others.

Retail staff are treated terribly by far too many customers, the least they deserve is a bit of a break over Christmas.

Ours didn't open Boxing Day last year as a thank you to all staff which was nice. Would be lovely if it happened every year.

Tbh I miss limited opening on bank holidays. Again quite a treat to get mostly done before customers come in. Plus staff could enjoy at least part of the day with family or friends. But no they're the same as every other day now.