Morrisons and Christmas Day

Snakeeyes21

cuddlymarm wrote: »

The problem is that if they do manage to get permission to open on Xmas Day the other supermarkets will follow suit. Which then means some poor people have got to work on Xmas Day (and funnily enough it won't be the senior staff)

Not everybody celebrates christmas, why should people who dont have to work their lives around it?
I work in catering and working xmas, new years etc is part of the job, times are changing, to close shops, banks etc on certain days is just laughable.

geordie_joe

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

Not everybody celebrates christmas, why should people who dont have to work their lives around it?

Because other people do. It would be nice if only those people who don't celebrate christmas had to work that day, but the reality is that people who don't want to work that day would also have to work it. Why should they disrupt their holiday for you?

Snakeeyes21 wrote: »

I work in catering and working xmas, new years etc is part of the job, times are changing, to close shops, banks etc on certain days is just laughable.

Only if you want them open on these days. If you don't want them open, or don't want your boss putting pressure on you to work those days, then it's not laughable.

I remember getting the bus to my nans on xmas day when I was young, and being sent to the shops on xmas day. They stopped the buses running, and the shops opening for a reason, it was what the public wanted. They didn't want to be pressured into working xmas day just so their bosses could make more money.

I don't celebrate xmas, haven't done for 13 years, but that DOES NOT mean I want to work on xmas day. I look forward to xmas, it is the one time when I can do exactly what I want. Nobody is going to ask me to work, or do the shopping, or anything else, I am free to do just what I like.

Please don't think that everyone who does not celebrate xmas wants to work on that day, they don't. Most of them enjoy the holiday, even if they don't eat turkey, go to church and watch the queens speech.

DaisyFlower

A BP garage near us has a huge wine counter and freely advertises this outside.

Barneysmom

I think it would be wrong to open on Christmas Day. There'd be no going back from that.
This country of ours is too busy anyway, people need a break and to let their hair down.

Storck

Think it depends on the definition of a garage. It has to be primarily used as a garage so if they can show that it is used for general sale of other stuff, eg food, then it could hold a license. There are loads and loads of petrol stations around the country that sell alcohol.

We stayed at a Travel Lodge on the A1 about three years ago and we bought a bottle of wine from the BP garage next to it so there must be a lot of give in the definition.

This is a quote from Guidance issued under section 182 of the Licensing Act 2003,
http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:-_lEImE2kS8J:www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/Chapter5PremisesLicences.pdf+licensing+act+2003+176&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShugf2-mlLSUG1mbBnAj2xFMXYNkBVTrI_I8JCESYIw-4qzWrQygcDgbBZUdFuWL4kCmjyaEfx17Xt7X69pBCqN7SHAMj2IW5mpjsXDJ7H4ZlF5DG_Qhvs4_Aqxhv6z-4r9_jLM&sig=AHIEtbQbuqcYZY3TF_O3aABuopPy5S5wVw

The 2003 Act therefore largely maintains the position which existed under the Licensing Act
1964. It is for the licensing authority to decide in the light of the facts whether or not any
premises is used primarily as a garage. Such decisions under the 1964 Act have most recently
not been based on an examination of the gross or net turnover of income from non-qualifying
products and other products. The approach to establishing primary use so far approved by the
courts has been based on an examination of the intensity of use by customers of the premises.
For example, if a garage shop in any rural area is used more intensely by customers
purchasing other products than by customers purchasing non-qualifying products or services,
it may be eligible to seek authority to sell or supply alcohol.

Kirri

mackemdave wrote: »

Signs in the carpark at my local Morrisons in Northampton are advising people that they intend to go to court to have the restriction of selling alcohol on Christmas Day lifted......Does this mean that we can expect Morrisons to start opening on Christmas Day....Out of the big four Supermarkets,Morrisons would be the last one I would have thought to want to open on Christmas Day.

Surely people could refrain from shopping for one day... I really hope they don't start opening, things are bad enough as they are!

Barneysmom

I remember how lovely and peaceful Sundays used to be, with hardly any traffic on the roads. We'd all sit down to Sunday lunch together

COOLTRIKERCHICK

this could be their game plan, to 'test' the water so to speak.

If this gets refused or if they apply for the store to open for x amount of hours on christmas day, and this gets refused too, they then could say that not all people celebrate christmas, and then start argueing the toss about we have the right to shop whenever we want...

I personally opinion is..... all major shops should and stay closed on christmas and easter sunday.. in fact i wouldnt mind then going back to being closed on sunday's too.

The government and everyone is harping on about working to much, and not having quality family time. together ... then the time you have got. doesnt mean you got to go shopping....lol...just because the shops are open...

Kirri

I'd also like them to close again on Sundays and have some peaceful time back, roads are also a nightmare now when actually trying to get across to visit family..

I've actually started avoiding the town centre on a Sunday now for non food and this week I decided to go back to shopping once a week for food to give myself some time back (albeit now I have to drive) instead of popping in every day or so on foot and spending more time in the actual shops..

geordie_joe

I also think shops should be closed on xmas, easter and all Sundays. Just because shops are open more days, it doesn't mean we have more money to spend. We still have the same amount of money to spend, but spend it over 7 days instead of 6.