interestrateripoff Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35623976 Rules on Sunday opening hours for shops in England and Wales are out of date and need to be relaxed, a group of 200 MPs and council leaders has said. In a letter to the Sunday Telegraph, they wrote that increasing spending on Sundays would boost job prospects and help shops compete with online firms. They backed government plans to devolve Sunday trading laws to local councils. However, the shopworkers' union said the majority of its members opposed extended Sunday trading hours. In the letter, the group - which includes the cross-party British Infrastructure Group (BIG) of MPs - said the world had changed "a great deal" since Sunday trading laws were last updated in 1994. This idea keeps cropping up, must be really desperate if they think this will boost the economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XswampyX Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 What can you possibly buy on a Sunday that you can't buy on any of the other 6 days of the week? They just don't want anybody to have time off together because they will start discussing how bad this country is run for 99% of the people! I would imagine most of the people alive were conceived on a Sunday morning! Why don't they just shove electrodes up our a$$es and zap us into shopping? Zaaaaap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sPinwheel Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Why don't they just shove electrodes up our a$$es and zap us into shopping? Because some of us might enjoy that a bit too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewingGrass Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 I'm struggling to think of any shops other than Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers that are actually shut on a Sunday. Are Estate agents open on a Sunday? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CentrinoDuo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 I'm struggling to think of any shops other than Butchers, Bakers and Candlestick Makers that are actually shut on a Sunday. Are Estate agents open on a Sunday? Yes Foxtons certainly do. My local butcher opens on Sunday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChewingGrass Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 So everyone is open other than the Candlestick Maker who has gone bust anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billybong Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 (edited) Coincidence it's being aired just as the referendum date is set. Is this something they'll promise to introduce if people vote eu stay - on the basis it'll be popular (likely not with shop workers though). Edited February 21, 2016 by billybong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agentimmo Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 Was in Tooting, London recently on a Sunday. Everything was open. Even the Kwik Fit garage. Nonsensical to say the law needs changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inoperational Bumblebee Posted February 21, 2016 Share Posted February 21, 2016 People aren't going to have extra money to spend just because the shops are open longer! Or want to buy any more stuff for that matter. I honestly cannot think of a single instance where I might need to suddenly go and do a big food shop or buy some shoes or whatever, at the time on a Sunday they are not open now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Skepticus Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 They want to compete with the car boots...where most of the migrants go to pick up a bargain crap, and most of the natives go to sell it back to them... clearly the economic recovery right there, now they want a bigger slice... the sheeple are screwed or not as the case may be- like robots they are indoctrinated to spend every spare minute being annoying sodding consumers of tat, clogging up the streets and supermarkets...when the continentals are all sleeping with each other spreading some love or having a good nosh up and fine wine...perhaps I'm generalising no culture, no hope here (in fact, better they arent screwing as its seems it just adds to the massive pool of genetic stupidity. Even pretending to be a bit religious might do some of these oxygen wasters some good) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spyguy Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 People aren't going to have extra money to spend just because the shops are open longer! Or want to buy any more stuff for that matter. I honestly cannot think of a single instance where I might need to suddenly go and do a big food shop or buy some shoes or whatever, at the time on a Sunday they are not open now... Sunday opening extensions is not going to help. Internet, high housing costs, loads of debt from 10 years ago. The supply fairy has well flown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 To buy in a shop on a Sunday you have to physically leave home, get on a bus, drive or get on your bike.....the walkable local shops are open on Sunday....suits me. Same money shared around different places different times..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Toast Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 This is the wrong way round. Opening hours ought to be restricted further, so millennials can start saving for a pension. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winkie Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 This is the wrong way round. Opening hours ought to be restricted further, so millennials can start saving for a pension. Quite.....spending far too much already, saving on a Sunday is what they should be doing, making their own free entertainment...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bristolhunter Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 About bloody time. My partner's Canadian. He suggests doing things (difficult, complex, like - buying food) at 3.45pm. I remind him we'd need to find somewhere open past the next 15 minutes. He replies "Right. It's Sunday [walks off muttering] and apparently it's 1743". Nobody rational would design a system were stores are open all the time most people are at work, and closed when they're available. You want a day when they're banned from pulling normal hours, fine, restrict them tuesday wednesday thursday for all I care. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bendy Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm not sure I would have picked up 2 discounted gressingham duck breasts at Sainsburys yesterday if they was allowed to open past 4. Keep the restriction I say! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The12YearWait Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Why can't the government keep out of the decision of when its ok to open and let companies do as they please. I wonder how many public sector workers are involved in this decision making and how many are needed to enforce it. Time to get the government out of peoples lives as much as we can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Errol Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Don't see how this well help. People only have a set amount to spend. If the shops are open longer the amount to spend does not magically increase. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
durhamborn Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 I'm not sure I would have picked up 2 discounted gressingham duck breasts at Sainsburys yesterday if they was allowed to open past 4. Keep the restriction I say! My spreadsheet of the times all the Supermarkets reduce would need changing.Saying that i tend to find Monday and Tuesday far superior days and if it rains heavily that day well even better.Mondays at reduction time (16.40-17.00) in my local Tesco there are more staff than customers.Im now supplying my parents and daughter as well.If they do change the sunday hours we will just have to work out the new times im afraid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon Taylor Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 How about parliament keeps it's nose out and allows shop keepers to open whenever they think they can do some business.? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sf-02 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 Don't see how this well help. People only have a set amount to spend. If the shops are open longer the amount to spend does not magically increase. Set amount to spend? Nah, borrow more. Osborne's growth figures are based on consumer borrowing increasing from 166% of GDP to 190% by 2020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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