Twenty Years Of Sunday Trading

[boxtops]

I wouldn't want to go back to not being able to shop on a Sunday - would you?

http://home.bt.com/news/uknews/opinion-have-trading-laws-ruined-sundays-11363929247638

[Canary42]

Yes, I would.

[jeffa]

Of course not! Pseudo-religious clap-trap.

[boxtops]

What did you do then, canary, that you'd like back? Only having one day a week for shopping when I work full-time, I like the option to do a e range of shopping on a Sunday. I'm not a churchgoer so the significance of Sunday in that respect doesn't affect me - and those whose holy days are Friday or Saturday can shop on Sundays too, now.

[pastafreak]

Its not even about religion...its about fitting in with modern life.

[jeffa]

You're right there! My local Sainsburys is full of Jewish people on Sunday mornings, all looking very happy at their ability to do their shopping. And quite right too!

[boxtops]

I agree, pasta - if you can't go to physical shops, you can still shop on-line if the shops were to close on Sunday again.

[Canary42]

To clarify (after having seen jeffa's reply), my preference has nothing to do with religion (aka superstition and fairy tales), but I think one day a week set aside for "rest and recuperation" is life-enhancing. Maybe I'm a dreamer.

[jeffa]

LOL! So set one aside! Knock yourself out! But please don't force the whole country to feel the same...

[boxtops]

Well... I do my R&R after the shopping, or when I choose. It's about planning my life, not having it enforced upon me as to when I can or can't shop. I've been know to go to Tesco at 4am....

[jeffa]

I've never been to Tesco at 4am. But I could if I wanted to. That's the point.

[Mamyalynne]

I could cope without it, but it's nice to have the choice.

Wish they opened earlier on a Sunday for the Newspapers etc..

[Canary42]

Nowhere did I intend to suggest imposing my lifestyle on everybody else - you may have mistakenly inferred it.

But I find our modern-day 24/7 consumerism frenzy rather frightening - it's my age of course (72).

[jeffa]

Your age? You're not much older than me, yet I'm really struggling to work out how you can actually be frightened by the shops being open 24 hours a day! I'm frightened by terrorism. And cancer. But shops being open - do me a favour!

[Buenchico]

Sundays used to be boring, boring, boring!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjE5WfweIcU

[janbee]

I have no objections to Sunday trading. I hate the restricted hours though. Why 10 - 4 ? Why not normal hours.? If people don't want to shop on Sundays, for whatever reason then that's fine but the choice should be there for us all to make up our own minds on the subject.

[rockyracoon]

I like Sunday trading and would like to see the hours extended, just like when the government changed the law temporarily as they realised they wouldn't be able to open the Olympic Merchandise shops under current legislation.

I wouldn't want a whole heap of people bullied into working Sundays to accomodate it though.

[Boto]

No, I would like the opening hours extended. I don't often shop on Sundays but I want the choice and not have someone else's wishes forced on me.

[pastafreak]

@canary...re 'rest and recuperation'...for many of us shopping-inthe sense of window shopping,browsing,whatever you may call it...is a form of r&r.
Also...even with Sunday hours,our local town centre is heaving on a Saturday...that's the last time I'd choose to be there to shop. I'm sure others feel the same.