What will you be stocking up on 'Just in case ' ?

Floss

ZolaBuddy said:

I did think the larger stores would observe the usual Sunday trading hours (in England and Wales), but it seems all large shops MUST stay closed on Easter Sunday, including the usual supermarkets.

In England & Wales there are 2 days in the year when shops over 280 square metres must be closed - Easter Sunday & Christmas Day: https://www.gov.uk/trading-hours-for-retailers-the-law

No trading restrictions apply in Scotland, but alcohol licensing is different with minimum pricing & trading times.

Brambling

maryb said:

Since all the supermarkets have to close by law on Easter Sunday, I have always found the afternoon of Easter Saturday is a very good time for getting really good YS bargains on things like lamb, turkey and salmon.  High value enough to make it worth stocking up the freezer

I decided to pop to Sainsbury after lunch rather than T Express and was able to pick up £20 worth of meat and fish for £6 including two packs of sea bass fillets 😁 All divided up and put in the freezer - 15 meals for me plus I grabbed a beef joint which is currently on offer so half price 

weenancyinAmerica

Technically in the US they had to stop the Sunday restrictions because they are religion dependent - since the other religions aren't celebrating the same holidays. So the restrictions are disappearing in most areas of the country, except in really small towns. And the stores wanted to have the revenue.

wondercollie

weenancyinAmerica said:

Technically in the US they had to stop the Sunday restrictions because they are religion dependent - since the other religions aren't celebrating the same holidays. So the restrictions are disappearing in most areas of the country, except in really small towns. And the stores wanted to have the revenue.

Same in Canada.   Growing up, it was only drug stores open on Sunday.

The Maritimes are a bit more traditional but are changing 

mumf

I work in food retail,and when Sunday trading was revised in 1993, it opened the floodgates for weird working hours for everyone. Frankly,the shops should be shut  on a Sunday. 

London_1

I agree and no one cannot really do without for one day a week. Although I daresay the supermarkets would get really cross if their tills wern't ringing 7 days a week. Its weird because growing up shops not only shut on a sunday they also usually had a half day a week when they were closed. I can remember when Sainsburys never opened on a Monday back in the 1950s  Not many woen had fridges or freezers back then and yet we all seemed to survive perfectly well. Today many folk have both fridges and freezers and sometime two of the latter so could easily not need to shop on a Sunday, not for religous reasons, but just to let the poor shop workers have a day with their families.

But I suppose big business and money will win out.

JackieO x

MrsCD

Jackie, this is why The Entertainer toyshop are closed on a Sunday. The owner is a Christian,  but there's a sign in the window explaining that he wants his workers to have one day a week for their families. 

OrkneyStar

I have no issue with shops opening on a Sunday - with modern life, where people are juggling family life and work (including shift work, long hours, multiple jobs), I think it really does make life easier for a lot of people. The staff who work on a Sunday will know that they may well be expected to, with it being retail, and they will get another day off instead. If someone chooses not to shop on a Sunday, at all (so even online), for religious or other reasons, then that's up to them, but to expect everyone else to do the same isn't realistic. Yes, most shops were closed in the past, but we are not living in the past anymore. When I lived in England for a while in the 1990's it seemed so odd that so many shops were closed there but open in Scotland.

Spendless

mumf said:

I work in food retail,and when Sunday trading was revised in 1993, it opened the floodgates for weird working hours for everyone. Frankly,the shops should be shut  on a Sunday. 

I would agree with this. In the early 80s when I was at sixth form I had a Saturday job at BHS foodhall. 

Roll forward years and my own kids couldn't find the same because the grocery stores had their staff working Saturday or Sunday plus hours in the week. 

The 'Saturday job' at least in my area, disappeared. 

OrkneyStar

Spendless said:

mumf said:

I work in food retail,and when Sunday trading was revised in 1993, it opened the floodgates for weird working hours for everyone. Frankly,the shops should be shut  on a Sunday. 

I would agree with this. In the early 80s when I was at sixth form I had a Saturday job at BHS foodhall. 

Roll forward years and my own kids couldn't find the same because the grocery stores had their staff working Saturday or Sunday plus hours in the week. 

The 'Saturday job' at least in my area, disappeared. 

In my area there are still lots of younger folk working part time in shops/cafes. Local shops/cafes employ school pupils from age 14, for limited hours, and also bigger places like the Coop and Tesco offer part time contracts for over 16's.  Grocery staff will still need time off, they don't work all the weekdays, plus all the weekend days, unless they are doing overtime, so there is still room for part time jobs.