What law are you breaking?

[outsiderdealer]

You go into Sainsburys at 9.31am on a Sunday during the "browsing period" and pick up a loaf of bread for £1.25. You go to the till to pay at 9.32am and the till is obviously closed, and a supervisor says that you have to wait until 10am before you can buy the bread. You leave the £1.25 at the till in full view of the supervisor and walk out of the shop with the bread. What law have you broken, and what could be the outcome?

[RATTER15]

Possibly theft, the loaf of bread was not for sale.

[Vivkins3]

My guess would be that as Sainsburys are not permitted to sell it to you before 10.00am then you cannot buy it until that time. By taking it, you are therefore stealing it. It takes two people to agree a legal transaction and Sainsburys have not agreed to sell it to you.

[dotty.]

you will probably be banned from the store now, you could have caused them to be fined thousands of pounds. By law the staff are not allowed to give you any assitance , not even direct you to a part ot the store, they can only tell you that they will be able to serve you at 10am. If you ignored the law you will have put that supervisors job in jeopardy if anything comes back to the store. she can be instantly dismissed for groos misconduct, I hope she has reported you for the action but she could well be too scared to do that as she will know the gravity of her own situation now, it is a very very important and fundamental part of sunday trading laws, she could not even have stopped you.

[dotty.]

I certainly wouldn;t return to that particular store unless it is to apologise and get that supervisor out of a nightmare situation.

[TWR]

Theft, Prosecution a slur on your character.

[TWR]

Thanks to Bruzzels for their stupid bloody rules.

[TWR]

Brussels

[dotty.]

sunday trading is restricted by size of store, he should have gone to the local corner shop or a spar, he'd not have had an issue, even a garage sells a loaf these days without it costing their job if a customer is ignorant and selfish enough to ignore the strict trading laws people have to adhere to

[friedgreentomato]

Its nothing to do with Brussels TWR!!

I hope you are banned from the storein future outsider

[Mccracker]

breakiing in at my sainsburys as they are never open before 10.05

[Psybbo]

Sainsburys in N. Ireland are not allowed to open until 1pm

[friedgreentomato]

yup I got caught out with that when I first moved over here!! Standing outside Jollies in Bangor for catfood like a fool at 11am!!

[tonyav]

Why is that then, sibo ?.

[dzug2]

<<Thanks to Bruzzels for their stupid bloody rules. >>

It's zilch to do with Brussels. Each Eu country sets its own rules

[ChuckFickens]

"Thanks to Bruzzels for their stupid bloody rules."

Yes, damn them for allowing each member state to set their own laws for Sunday trading, glad you've decided to become a europhille TWR and think the EU should step in and standardise it.

[friedgreentomato]

tony - its a left over from the ultra religious rules over here!

[TWR]

Its a wonder they dont put a time on Love making Chuck.

[friedgreentomato]

Well 2 minutes will be an improvement for you TWR!!

[ChuckFickens]

did you just hear a strange whooshing sound a few feet above your head?

[LyndaB]

There is no set time that large shops can open on a Sunday, just the number of hours they are allowed to trade - which is 6. So most stores are open 10-4' or 11-5. Sunday trading - the work of the devil!