Easter Saturday

oueyouey

Easter Saturday Evening will be the best time to go shopping at the supermarkets. As they will not be open on Easter Sunday my thought is that they will have loads of foods reduced

Curry_Queen

According to my son they are reducing everything this morning at our local supermarket and he brought me back a tub of pears for 20p, two cartons of soup for 10p each (usually £1.97 each), a bag of baby salad potatoes 20p, 4 bags of fresh pasta at 10p each and 2 tubs of cheese sauce for pasta at 10p each.

Bless his little cotton socks, he'd only gone out to get some "munchies" to take on his trip away this weekend

Ticklemouse

Are the shops open today? I thought that they'd be closed today, but then I suppose Good Friday is only one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, so why not spend it shopping Mind you, DS1 asked for hot cross buns, which we don't have.:o

oueyouey

I thinks it's just Easter Sunday that the shops arenot allowed to open

JCL

They'll be open up here.

oueyouey

Yes i was slightly wrong. Under the Sunday Trading Act 1994 Small shops (under 280 sq m/3,000 sq ft) have no restrictions on opening on Easter Sunday. Larger shops are not allowed to open on Easter Sunday

Edinburghlass_2

All open in Scotland, all weekend :beer:

filigree_2

Ticklemouse wrote:

Are the shops open today? I thought that they'd be closed today, but then I suppose Good Friday is only one of the most important days in the Christian calendar, so why not spend it shopping Mind you, DS1 asked for hot cross buns, which we don't have.:o

Doesn't bother us non-Christians

I have found in the past that it's worth checking the supermarkets first thing Tuesday morning after Easter. They need to sell off all those "celebration" joints of meat like turkey and duck, because they don't sell well outside of big holidays. I got the most enormous turkey for £2 a couple of years ago, fed us for days.

JCL

filigree wrote:

Doesn't bother us non-Christians

I don't have much time for any kind of religion but I do think it would be nice if all the shops (apart from maybe petrol stations or pharmacy) closed for a day to give the staff some time off. We should be able to do without them for a day.

I used to work at Safeway in my student days and worked one Boxing Day to do some admin stuff. The number of people calling in to check if we were open was incredible. They went bonkers was told that the store wasn't open. Pretty sad that some people can't do without a supermarket for a couple of days.

Big_Nige

Doesn't it make you laugh at the likes of easter christmas etc, that people shop as if the shops are shutting for 2 weeks & not 2 days

Xbigman

I work in a major supermarkets warehouse and this easter has been very poor. Holidays are banned because it is supposed to be busy but the ban has been lifted and regular agency staff are being sent home early.
Roll on monday and the big reductions.

I just bought some easter eggs 3 for 1. Is that a reduction or what.
Regards



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