Sunday trading

[smurfboy]

Not sure if we've had this debate before, but...

Is anyone else a bit pissed off that in 2007, the government is still telling us what time we can go shopping on a Sunday? Shouldn't the individual stores have the freedom to open when they want - and the rest of us some freedom of choice?

[kevvosa]

How has it changed? I thought it was 11am when shops can open on Sundays.

[oldspice]

Believe it or not there were two reasons stated for making Sunday Trading limited when it was originally allowed.

1) The House of Lords wanted to be sure people had time to go to church on Sundays! Remember, many clergymen, including Bishops sit in the House of Lords.

2) The government had to be mindful of small shops who had traded quite legally for years on Sundays and who might be ruined by the pulling power of the big stores.

At the time I was passionatley against Sunday Trading because my work at the time included a lot of contact with retail groups and because i was a regular church goer.

All the shops should close and make Sunday special again and Britain a better place.

[Cherry_Ripe]

Is anyone else a bit pissed off that in 2007, the government is still telling us what time we can go shopping on a Sunday?

I can't help feeling sorry for the people working on a Sunday in the supermarket, even if they are there willingly and being paid accordingly. Personally I would hate to work at a weekend and have always chosen jobs which do not require weekends. I realise I have been lucky to be able to do that.

I regularly go to the supermarket on a Sunday. It doesn't piss me off that the supermarkets don't open until 10am on a Sunday although it is somewhat annoying that they close at 4pm and do not open again until 8am the following morning.

[Forth Bridges]

well aslo you can't buy bear/win until 12.30pm

and on a sunday we have different laws about this aswell up here big store can open unlike in England:

thats because 32 local council don;t believe in Bank hoilday and there 32 local hoildays

[loulou]

All shops should be open 24/7.

[smurfboy]

How has it changed?

That's exactly my point - it hasn't!

[Forth Bridges]

thats a good thing

[smurfboy]

All the shops should close and make Sunday special again and Britain a better place.

We don't all want religion forced on us.

[kevvosa]

All shops should be open 24/7.

It'd surely cost more to do that than the profit they would make from it?

All the shops should close and make Sunday special again and Britain a better place.

We don't all want religion forced on us.

It's not about religion.  It's about society and the community.

[kevvosa]

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[smurfboy]

All the shops should close and make Sunday special again and Britain a better place.

We don't all want religion forced on us.

It's not about religion.  It's about society and the community.

There's nothing wrong with a sense of community - I just don't see how being going shopping at 5.05pm on a Sunday would prevent that from existing.

It has degraded how people interact and undermined their leisure time.  Sunday trading is corrosive capitalism.  Yes, I do some Sunday shopping but not much.