Sunday Trading Laws – What does STW think?

I couldn’t really give a shit as I don’t really like shopping and don’t work in a shop. BUT….

People do like shopping and people do work in shops and some people like having varied part time shift patterns that can be accommodated on weekends. Young people who have school or college during the week but want to earn more money would be happy to work additional shifts at weekends etc…

Making Sundays just the same as the rest of the week opens up possibilities for changes in shifts, It doesn’t mean that if you already work 3, 4 or 5 days in Tesco, you’ll be forced to work 8 hours on a Sunday as theres plenty of other people that need jobs that would happily take up that slack.

Shops don’t really get to decide though. If their competitors are open then they don’t really have much choice.

This +1 When my son worked in co-op, the area manager insisted they stay open till 10pm on Xmas eve despite the fact that virtually no one came in after 8pm

Me I’d quite happily have stricter Sunday opening hours, just to have one day that’s a bit quieter etc

(There are cafés here that are shut Saturday afternoon and all day Sunday, their choice).

It does seem rather perverse that a leisure facility is closed at the only time that many people will be available to use it. So your primary source of revenue is those pillars of society renowned for their affluence, the unemployed and pensioners.

I’m not sure what the answer is here. If we say “close everything on Sunday bar pubs, restaurants, cinemas…” then it’s not an ideal solution as other people will still have to go to work to staff those places. And if we say blanket “close everything” – assuming that’s even possible and we don’t need things like nurses, firemen and power station workers – then you’ve got a day off and bog all to do other than talk to your family and no-one wants to be stuck with that (-: