[News] Close supermarkets on Sundays?

[Bob!]

They usually are shut on Easter Sunday. It's nothing new.

Apologies, I must have missed off the smiley from my post.

 

[pearl]

Let's go further, no sport on Sundays and turn the clock back to 1950s so we can sit at home and have Sunday lunch (a roast) bang on 1pm each and every Sunday. Ensure that religious progammes fill the TV schedule, with a compulsory close down at 10.30.

Bound to be a vote winner

TV?! All round the wireless for Sing Something Simple, then bath and bed

 

[Gwylan]

In all seriousness, no.

I remember the 1970s when everything was shut, pubs opened at noon and closed at 2, then you went home to watch Southern Soccer (hello Ray Hiron, hello Albie McCann), before entering the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

You say that now, you're fully qualified. But when I was young with no shops opened and nothing good on the box, Sunday was the day for doing homework and when I was at uni, it was the time for doing essays. If places had been open, I'd never have got my degree

Don't know how the kids today manage

 

[Dick Head]

This is exactly how it is in Germany and I am a big fan.

Can you still get Carlsberg Elephant Beer from vending machines in the street?

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Can you still get Carlsberg Elephant Beer from vending machines in the street?

I can’t say I’ve ever seen them. But it’s never an issue buying a beer whatever day or time it is, there will always be a shop open.

 

[BLOCK F]

You are an accountant, a witty and bright one, I cannot win this argument but I bloody loved the late Sixties, early seventies before responsibility and mills round my neck changed things for ever. Nobody will ever convince me that it wasn’t a fantastic time to be young.

I changed my job every six months without a problem, can you do that now? I actually enjoyed all of them whilst I was doing them too but changed as the mood took me. Working in England and abroad. It was fantastic.

Yes, it was a good time to be young, but it would have been even better with more shops open on a Sunday and the pubs open all day!

 

[Guinness Boy]

In all seriousness, no.

I remember the 1970s when everything was shut, pubs opened at noon and closed at 2, then you went home to watch Southern Soccer (hello Ray Hiron, hello Albie McCann), before entering the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

No thanks.

This. Plus, when the footy starts again you need somewhere to get your TRAIN CANS from when Sky move your fixture to Sunday lunchtime.

 

[BLOCK F]

We could just go back to the days when women didn't work and had time to shop for the household during the week and half day closing and lunch hours were things that didn't inconvenience people because men were working and the little woman had all day to balance her shopping, cleaning and cooking duties.

The good old days? F**k that. The 70s were shit for half the population and, frankly, not that much better for the other half.

Have to disagree with you re the '70's, plenty of people had great times. I did and am now almost 72.
Substitute the '50's for the '70's and you may have a point; however, some people , even older than me, loved the '50's..........as a young lad, I thought they were often very boring.

 

[Lower West Stander]

I remember working in Glasgow in the early 90s and being amazed all the shops were open on Sunday. It just seemed normal and no one complained about it.

Living with someone who works shifts including weekends, it never made any sense to be to have shops closed on Sunday. To nurses in the NHS for example, it would just restrict flexibility in how they live when they aren’t working.

And it’s not like churches are closed and there are no services any other day of the week....


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[KZNSeagull]

No thanks. We get paid extra (not much mind, since the Union negotiated it away) for Sundays. Most Supermarket workers only get 20 hour a week contracts at most, so that extra on Sundays is very handy.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Shops used to close at 1pm on a Wednesday too, for half day closing.

The pharmacy and the butcher in Wolsingham still do! The pharmacy also closes for an hour for lunch on other days.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

In all seriousness, no.

I remember the 1970s when everything was shut, pubs opened at noon and closed at 2, then you went home to watch Southern Soccer (hello Ray Hiron, hello Albie McCann), before entering the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

No thanks.

Ray Pointer, George Ley anybody, John Milkins, Mike Trebilcock, Brian Bromley? It's just all wrong that Dinenage forced these names into my psyche.

 

[Notters]

This may come as a shock to you but Supermarket workers don't work 7 days a week.

Some people work on Sunday, but don't work on another day. Possibly two other days.

Not a lot of people know that.











I've been whooshed, haven't I.

You say that but my wife has to work on either saturday or Sunday and she only works three days a week (sainsbury's).

 

[Seasidesage]

It would have to be done properly to be effective. Pubs just open lunchtime and evening - and no football (apart from Sunday league local football). That might raised a few squeals though!

Madness

 

[yxee]

Exactly. So chill out, you don’t need to go to B&Q.

But sometimes I WANT to. I have two days off a week, why is someone trying to restrict what I can do for half of that time? If you don't want to go to B&Q, then don't go to B&Q

If the company wants to sell and I want to buy, I don't really get why a government needs to ban it.

It's already a right pain on Sunday trading hours because it just makes the shops busier than they need to be.

 

[LlcoolJ]

You say that but my wife has to work on either saturday or Sunday and she only works three days a week (sainsbury's).

That's what he said mate.

 

[cheshunt seagull]

In all seriousness, no.

I remember the 1970s when everything was shut, pubs opened at noon and closed at 2, then you went home to watch Southern Soccer (hello Ray Hiron, hello Albie McCann), before entering the Long Dark Teatime of the Soul.

No thanks.

I remember the sinking feeling when you tuned in expecting The Big Match maybe with Peters, Osgood, George or Bowles to find that it was going to be Southern Soccer with Hiron and Milkins. To be followed by Bernie the Bolt and God. Those afternoons seemed to last forever.

 

[METALMICKY]

I remember the sinking feeling when you tuned in expecting The Big Match maybe with Peters, Osgood, George or Bowles to find that it was going to be Southern Soccer with Hiron and Milkins. To be followed by Bernie the Bolt and God. Those afternoons seemed to last forever.

Yes pretty much my recollection but it did get better later. Ski Sunday, The World About Us and then That's Life.

Must admit I really loved the the serenity of Sundays in the 70's. The only thing I would miss is the live football.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

But sometimes I WANT to. I have two days off a week, why is someone trying to restrict what I can do for half of that time? If you don't want to go to B&Q, then don't go to B&Q

If the company wants to sell and I want to buy, I don't really get why a government needs to ban it.

It's already a right pain on Sunday trading hours because it just makes the shops busier than they need to be.

Chill my friend.

 

[The Clamp]

I personally find shops
being open on a Sunday rather helpful, being a shift worker. However, for too long big business has been held above all else in the U.K.
Greedy ********s like Green and Branson have had it all their own way. Opening almost whenever they wish, paying staff minimum wage and forcing them to do unpaid overtime every day.
Slap some restrictions on them and send a message that we value other principles other than shopping and allowing tax avoiding ******** to exploit our workforce.