Sunday Trading Laws?

How can you relax a law temporarily??

The law is either needed or not, you can’t chop and change to suit business.

If they want to get the country out of the crises, make the bankers who caused it pay instead of them getting big bonuses for helping get out of the mess they caused.

Leave the ordinary working folk alone

Personally I think it should be left in place for the reasons of leaving Sunday special weather for religious reasons or just family time.

As for Sunday trading, does anyone spend more because the shops are open

I, like most spent all my disposable income on living. This is divided over 6 days, divide it into seven gives an extra days trading but no increase in spending power

The shops lose because they open at a cost to take money they would be taking on the other six day if they were not open on Sunday.

This only works if all shops are shut…there is no reason why they can’t be.

Garages could be open, only to sell petrol and chemist only to sell certain items, but general shopping can wait.

i honestly believe it is partly why society is as it is now people are conditioned that life is a 24/7 365 money earning averice machine with no break to understand what has gone on the previous week !

Yep, I think that is exactly what the problem is.
Our local small tesco shop was open yesterday, easter sunday!
We went to do our weekly food shop today to find that the asda carpark was pretty much full. We decided we’ll do it tomorrow (we normally do ours every monday)
It’s as if people can’t function if a shop is closed for 1 day.

@lincoln7
What about security guards, warehouse workers etc who work nights and get far lower wages too?…

ppp.Ben, when I was on the Force and had 3 young kids and wife to support, and at a time when Coppers were leaving the job in droves because of low pay, I had to moonlight just to make ends meet.
Now I am lead to believe the starting point is something like 23,000 grand a year.
I left the job, via retirement 18 yrs ago.When on the job, together with 250 per month for housing allowance I was taking home under a grand a month.

And this as you will know included a 7 day week 2 days off then further 7 days, with quick turnrounds thrown in, holidays cancelled due to some scrote pleading not guilty, then turning up at Court on the day and pleading guilty, but s*d me having lost a weeks annual leave because of the scrote.
If employers want you to work on a bank holiday, you should be paid a rate accordingly.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

If that is the case, it is rather unfortunate that the Chancellor has chosen to relax the Laws for the Olympics period when smaller businesses may have appreciated the extra custom.

I don’t see large stores taking much of the market the small stores would be attracting over the Olympic period.

@lincoln7
What about security guards, warehouse workers etc who work nights and get far lower wages too?…

plus today it is fairer than ever to close on a sunday as most peoples work paterns nowadays see them having a free day or later opening during the week plus like rats you are never too far away from a tesco !!

i think everywhere should be closed on sunday !! not because i’m religious but because i remmember the days when they were ( appart from tourist spots and petrol stations ) for those that can remmember it was a fantastic day to relax and wind down

i honestly believe it is partly why society is as it is now people are conditioned that life is a 24/7 365 money earning averice machine with no break to understand what has gone on the previous week !

to demonstrate it is a money making machine life most peoples first thaughts on a sunday morning will be ” what am i buying from tescos today !!”

Personally I would love to see Sundays kept as a family/church day with most places closed.

That is however a somewhat outdated view that has no chance of becoming reality.

Says I who have worked 12 hour shifts on Good Friday, Easter Saturday and Easter Sunday…….thats aviation for you !

A non-UK perspective.

Where I live (east coast Aus) retailers can open whenever they choose; 24/7 if the want. Sunday trading is pretty much obligatory for anyone in retail who wants to survive, but Monday through Wednesday are pretty quiet days (the de facto weekend for most in the industry).

It works for us, and there are pretty much zero calls to change things.

I thought that the Sunday Trading Laws limited big stores opening times on a Sunday as a sop to the small business lobby by allowing smaller businesses to open for longer than their larger competitors.

If that is the case, it is rather unfortunate that the Chancellor has chosen to relax the Laws for the Olympics period when smaller businesses may have appreciated the extra custom.

Regarding wider changes to Sunday trading legislation, I’m fairly ambivalent. If there are arguments in favour of further deregulation, I don’t think that protecting Churches would be a valid excuse for not making changes though.

It is a wider argument, but they shouldn’t have a veto on this or other legislation.

I can only speak for my son here regarding this, however, he is a Manager(Under contract, hence NO extra for weekends), for one of the 3 large Supermarket chains, and his work schedule means he has to work mainly lates so at weekends he only sees his two young girls when they get out of bed, (Teenagers love their beds).he then has to go to work. He is in favour of Sunday closure, as he would have quality time with his wife and two children.Most of the Staff would like to have Sundays off.
Look at all the events that they, as a family miss at this time of year, eg, air shows etc.
He has his days off in the week, when his children are at school, not much of a family life.
Jim.
Lincoln .7