Easter Sunday trading
Posted by: mista h on 20 April 2014
Today being Easter Sunday all the big retailers,Tesco,Asda etc,etc by law have to remain closed.
The small corner shop however can stay open.
Can anyone using this M/B tell me where the line is drawn between those outlets that can open and those that by law must close. Just curious.
Mista h
George !.....you wouldn't make it mandadory (legal) though, would you. !!
I normally take Tuesday and Wednesday off work. We never go shopping on a Tuesday or a Wednesday. Golf - yes, hiking - yes, evening with family - yes, short break down in Cornwall - yes, but shopping - No !
Just because the shops are open for other people, doesn't mean that we HAVE to go shopping !!
But i'd still vote "Yes" to making one day a week "Special", even if that were Sunday.
Dear Don,
Even though the shops are open on Sunday, I avoid patronising them,
Everyone is free to do that!
ATB from George
Surely George you would never be patronising at all..?
Nah!
ATB from George
Bottom line is the big Supermarkets dont give a toss about anyone or anything,all they are interested in is making money.
You sound as if you are now retired,if so good luck to you Voltaire
With mista With a spoon storming the pub trade i would hate to be a pub owner with a tied house.
Mista h
Good post JN.......you are bang on.
Supermarkets opening 24 hrs a day is just plain greed. Apart from 00001 % of us we dont need to go shopping at 3 in the morning.
Mista H
It's a way of life, have a wander around T###0's in your dressing gown and slippers.
+1
Waitrose's gownless policy is quite liberating old chap!
Good post JN.......you are bang on.
Supermarkets opening 24 hrs a day is just plain greed. Apart from 00001 % of us we dont need to go shopping at 3 in the morning.
Mista H
Not greed. At the end of the day we don't buy more groceries just because of longer store hours. I suspect that the incremental costs of having the store open are trivial, given that shelf re-stocking and cleaning is going on anyway. Just a cashier who can be doing other things in the times of no customers.
Possibly competition between stores is behind a decision for 24-hour trading. People form habits and late-night run for some milk might develop into a prefernce for that store more generally. It is that competition that keeps margins small, and costs low.
Mista h
Stores open 24 hours because there are hundreds of thousands of people who work unsocial hours and they are more in number than the imaginary figure of 00001% you quoted.
Our local gym is open 24/7 and it targets workers finishing night shift and those starting the early shift. My old employer, the Post Office had a warehouse with 550 storekeepers who worked around the clock. Those workers spent their money whilst you were tucked up in bed.
You cannot blame a store for remaining open if there is business to be had.
The stores will want to open on Sunday because they do a good trade but whether the government should step in to preserve the day of rest is another topic entirely, even different from 24 hour opening during the week. There are social, religious and ethical issues to consider and the entire topic is a minefield.
Having spent the last 6 weeks in Spain where the place comes to a grinding halt on Sunday, my initial reaction was that of irritation and disbelief, but having got used to it, I can see the advantages of children actually spending a day with their parents that may not have happened if one of the parents was forced to work.
Crime levels are lower in Spain, the general standard of behaviour is better and the impact of family life is greater, possibly that may be due to more inter parent involvement on a Sunday or may be not, I just don't know.
What I will say, is that you soon get used to not being able to shop on a Sunday and it is no great hardship.
Regards
Mick
not when you work funny duty rotas, or do night shifts.