Sunday opening hours

Golden_Anemone

drew2k9 wrote: »

you choose to live where you live, so its a consequence of your choice.

That is plain daft. You stated that nobody needs to shop on a Sunday morning because they can use Internet shopping. Northern Ireland has many rural communities outside of the reach of Internet shopping. Are you suggesting it would be more practical and equitable for all of them to move than for the shops to be allowed to open earlier on a Sunday? :rotfl:

Golden_Anemone

moonpie wrote: »

Golden_Anemone wrote: »

drew2k9 wrote: »

We'll just have to agree that some people can work 5 days a week, do their shopping, help the kids with their homework every evening (thank goodness the AQE's are over), clean their house and car, do the laundry, have a day for some therapetic spending, and still have a day to chill out before starting it all over again, and some people just spend time complaining they don't have time.

I'll have to give you that one moonpie. Maybe if you could tell me where you got your crystal ball - the one that allows you to compare your life to that of a complete stranger and assume you are harder working and generally more superior to her - I could get one too and be as clever and accomplished as you clearly are. :cool:

Girlzmum

lazer wrote: »

As for people queuing at the supermarkets at 1pm, how often do you really see that, personally i've never seen it!

I worked in a shopping centre every Sunday for years and we had a queue standing at the door every week waiting for the doors to open. Some of them were in their pj's as well.....

Personally I think 10 - 4 is much better.

drew2k9

now talk about taking it out of context.

no it obviously wouldnt be practical for people to all move rather than open the shops on a sunday, but thats not what im getting at, all im saying is that with prior planning and making time management a bit more of a priority then the need to shop on any certain day of the week could be avoided completely, and you could have planned in advance for which day suits you best given the timeframe you have to work in.

and i apologise for being a bit snappy with the just move type reply. i just dont understand how people complaining that they cant get to a shop on a sunday will change anything. you all obviously get your shopping now on other days or in that timeframe without running out every week on a sunday morning, yes it may be inconvenient, but in my opinion, it wont be too long until you will have more freedom to shop on a sunday.

also if it were put to a vote i think the majority would be for shops opening longer on a sunday, i know i wouldnt object.

Pretani

drew2k9 wrote: »

that was so disrepectful.

you could have waited no problem, or if it was such a problem, a matter of life and death then go to a hospital, last time i checked the "pharisees" havent closed them on a sunday yet, and they will give you the prescription you so desperately needed.

Now now drew, you know the hospital argument for getting antibiotics on a Sunday morning is silly. How am I supposed to get there, call an Ambulance for a bout of chest flu? Much easier to open the Chemist on a Sunday morning, ya think;)

As for being disrespectful to the pharisees in N.Ireland, I'm sure they'll be the ones asking Christ at the judgement, "Why am i not included Lord, look at all the things I did for you, I kept all Moses's commandments, chastised the law-breakers and I'm not even Jewish"

....and just to round it all off, Sunday isn't even the Sabbath. Rome changed it from the last day of the week to the first, just to annoy the Jews

suki1964

As an ex londoner living up in here Ballymoney, its been a bit of a culture shock getting used to the very archaic (to me ) Sunday trading here

Like "late night shopping" in Ballymena and Coleraine - is the chain stores only - local shops close - like why????

As for the cordoned off area for alcohol and separate tills? Pain in the bum

But then I have to say as well, that I love the fact that Sundays for us is no longer a "shopping " day. We now have Sunday Lunch at lunchtime either in or out and still have time to go make that family purchase we might be looking at - rather then spend the hour or so traipsing around the supermarket. We have time Sunday mornings for a lie in, take a good long walk, do the garden - whatever

And I love that so far the supermarkets are not yet king here. That the local shops are still just surviving. Been a godsend this cold weather that we do have such well stocked supported local shops - I couldnt have got into town this week but still managed to get the essentials just three miles up the road

So I am now swinging towards the keep Sunday special way of thinking

When I started working in supermarkets back in the 70's, there was no late night shopping, no Sunday trading, you never got fresh deliveries on a Saturday or Monday so milk and bread sold out by mid morning and the meat and fruit and veg would have emptied by lunch. Sainsburys opened mid morning on Mondays as there was only the grocery dept that had full shelves. no one in their right mid would buy any meat or fish on a Monday ( neither butchers nor fishmongers opened) as there was no fresh supplies till a Tuesday from the Friday before

We always seemed to get time to get our shopping then, but then high streets close to our work places had real shops. Back in London you dont have local shops anymore and you have to drive to retail parks - not something you can do in a lunch break

mia1830

The placement of off licences as cordoned off areas within supermarkets is also a bit irritating, and I really don't understand the logic or sense of having some tills through which you can purchase alcohol and others through which you can't. I don't understand how these rules could possibly achieve anything.[/QUOTE]


I work in a supermarket and there is some rule about not being allowed to serve under 18 years olds at a licensed till. The same rule apply's in an off sales, you are not allowed to sell a child sweets etc unless there with an adult. I can maybe understand it in and off sales but not sure with the supermarkets. They are also cordoned off as I think its from 11pm till 8am you are not allowed to sell alcohol so this makes it easier to cordon of,Strange wee country we live in :rotfl:

Pretani

They also cordoned off as I think its from 11pm till 8am you are not allowed to sell alcohol so this makes it easier to cordon of,Strange wee country we live in :rotfl:

Noticed that too. The pubs aren't allowed to sell booze after 11pm, I think:think:

blueberrypie

drew2k9 wrote: »

you choose to live where you live, so its a consequence of your choice.

Thinking of some of my best friends:

One is a farmer - farm has been in the family for generations. Moving would mean huge upheaval, massive costs, and major ructions within extended family.

One lives in the house her ex chose. Ex is gone, leaving her with 3 children, including one who is fairly seriously disabled. She'd prefer to live closer to her family, but can't afford to move.

One lives with her children and her elderly (and slightly batty) mother-in-law, in the same house the mother-in-law has had for 40ish years. The family wouldn't be living there if the mother-in-law didn't need them.

And one lives in a house that came with the job, in an area that came with the job - she's married to a minister!

Pretani

blueberrypie wrote: »

And one lives in a house that came with the job, in an area that came with the job - she's married to a minister!

God forbid the practice of intercourse. Maybe we should all become nuns and Priests