Be Excellent To Each Other

I'd be happy if the shops were free to open when they want and just let demand determine whether there's a need to be open all day on a Sunday.

I used to get annoyed when we lived in Beckenham, as nothing at all opened on Sunday. Except the pubs. Actually, it's not too different in Stroud.

So, allowing businesses to stay open all day Sunday would probably make fuck all difference if they're already not bothering to open at all.

Bingo.

What? The shops *are* allowed to open whenever they want, aren't they?

I think it was for any council visitor for any occasion, and all houses that fell under the area controlled by the councils.

They say it was a polite request, but there was a follow-up on the news where council workers were refusing to enter houses that 'smelled of smoke', which of course meant lazy gits under council contacts couldn't be bothered to do loads of jobs.

Sounds like you live in some sort of backward fundamentalist 3rd world enclave.

Around here, all the big shops, the supermarkets, DIY stores that I avoid shopping at are open on Sunday. All day.

It's the smaller shops that are closed, where it would be quite handy if they were open because otherwise, I have to actually take a day off work to buy anything.

I think you'll find that the big shops are actually only open for six hours on a Sunday.

Sounds like you live in some sort of backward fundamentalist 3rd world enclave.

Around here, all the big shops, the supermarkets, DIY stores that I avoid shopping at are open on Sunday. All day.

It's the smaller shops that are closed, where it would be quite handy if they were open because otherwise, I have to actually take a day off work to buy anything.

Possibly the law is different in Scotland? In England 6 hours is the maximum.

Must be. I'm confused now, I thought you said they couldn't open between 8AM and 8PM on a Sunday - they're hardly going to open for 6 hours outside that time are they?

Oh, fair enough. What's everyone complaining about then?

I WANT TO GO SHOPPING AT 8PM ON A SUNDAY!

Oh, fair enough. What's everyone complaining about then?

That shops are only open 10-4 on a Sunday?

or 7-11.

Shush. We're talking about the big shops to which the sunday trading laws apply. The fact there are loads of small shops open ALL DAY SUNDAY which you can go to to buy stuff is, obviously, neither here nor there when one is complaining about the non-availability of bog roll at 4.30 on Sunday.

Don't those small shops sell bog roll then?

Don't those small shops sell bog roll then?

Surely the earlier point that shop workers need to go home and see their families is more applicable to small shops that don't have multiple shifts of available staff? By that logic the small shops should be closed on Sundays and the large ones open.

Correct logic. And they are.

Don't those small shops sell bog roll then?

But not in England - because the small shops deliberately open longer hours on Sundays to take advantage of the fact that the larger shops aren't allowed to.

I want 24 hour shops all day every day, for convenience.

I expressed a theory about this to my gf a while ago. I theorised that in the future, everything, and I mean everything, will be open 24 hours . Due to population growth, eventually there will be so many people that there physically wont be enough space to accommodate them during current 'peak' times, and so the world would have to shift to two 12 hour systems where one half gets up, works, and shops, and then goes and stays at home while the other half get up and do the same. You heard it here first.