Sunday Trading Laws & Toys R Us !

nicknak123

I decided to go & get a childs car booster seat @10:15 on a Sunday - big mistake ! >:(

There was a queue of people waiting to get in the shop - it doesn't open until 10:30 so all stood around checking our watches.

10:30 the store opened & everybody shuffled in.
I got my item straight away & went to pay - nobody at the till ! When I asked why I was told the store can't sell until 11:00 ! So I stood there with the other 30 disgruntled shoppers waiting to pay until 11:00.

Apparently this happens every Sunday - Toys R Us opens @10:30 (for viewing only !) you can't buy anything until 11:00 !!

What is the point of opening the store if you can't buy anything I asked ? I found out rather than open @10-16:30 (like Homebase for example) & allow you to actually buy things they prefer to open 10:30-17:00 (with 1/2 hour viewing time - Aren't we lucky)

I appreciate there are Sunday shopping laws but if I want to shop on a Sunday & the people serving me choose to work on a Sunday then why not ??

Maybe this was my penance for not being at Church !

Spendless

Several stores do this - they are only allowed to sell for 6 hours - but they get round it by opening early for viewing purposes - so you can look round the store and put your stuff in the trolley but you can't actually buy it till the stores 'correct' time.

It must drive the staff nuts.

I worked in a large DIY store during the late 80s and we were illegally open - from 9am - 6pm. I'd left by the time Sunday hours were made legal and was pleased to see that they had limited the amount of hours a store could open - but as you see if there's a loophole it'll be found.

Bossyboots

Its actually more than just not being able to sell you anything.

My daughter works in a store that opens on Sunday with a half hour "preview" time. In that time, not only are they not allowed to sell anything but they also cannot serve/advise customers.

Robert_Sterling_3

Like a lot of laws the sunday shopping laws are a compromise. Shops can sell goods for six hours.
As long as they are not selling good they may be open outside the six hours.

bridiej

I think this country should get with it and just let the shops be open all day on a Sunday.

If, like us, you work all week and most of Saturday there is little time to get the shopping done, plus it's always packed during the 10-4 slot on a Sunday.

Seems crazy in this day and age...

16011996

our local supermarket does this, you can go in at 10:30 but can't buy till 11am, does my head in, by 11 the tills are 6 deep. >:(

Matt_Nixon

The Sunday Trading Laws are from a bygone age, where we were all supposed to go to Church, then have a huge sunday lunch, then fall asleep in front of the wireless

Scrap em thats what I say!

16011996

but do we really need shops open on a sunday. i think its time all but corner shops and newsagents shut, and we got back to normal sundays, rather than all this shopping. maybe its this all week spending thats putting the country into debt.

nicknak123

but do we really need shops open on a sunday. i think its time all but corner shops and newsagents shut, and we got back to normal sundays, rather than all this shopping. maybe its this all week spending thats putting the country into debt.

Again I say if people want to shop on a Sunday & the staff working in the shops agree to work on a Sunday then let them do it.

I do not particularly want all the shops to open on Sunday - The point of my vent was to highlight the stupidity of opening a store then not allowing you to buy anything ! (Whilst I was in Toys R Us a man who had paid for an item the day before was not even allowed to collect the item until the store was officially 'open' this is RIDICULOUS.

The problem is when & if the Sunday Trading Law is abolished Sunday then becomes a normal banking day & then every store will open - business as usual.    

I think it makes no difference to the country if I spend my money on a Sunday or a Monday either way tax has 1) been paid on my money being spent, 2) tax will be paid on the money taken by the store, 3) tax will be deducted on the money earned by the Sunday workers, 4) tax will be paid on the money spent by the Sunday workers, 5) tax will then be deducted on the money earned taken by the store by the money spent by the Sunday workers.......& on & on & on.

How all this additional tax earned 'puts the country into debt' (supposedly) escapes me !

16011996

sorry, what i meant was off topic, but i meant do we spend too much time going round the shops now on a sunday, rather than it being a family day the way it used to be. when i was young, (before shops really opened on a sunday) we'd go out for walks, to the park, or whatever, but now you see oodles of kids going round towns and supermarkets on a sunday instead.

just an observation really.

160.

Spendless

i'd actually like to see it all or nothing -why should it be just shops that are open on Sundays what about doctors,dentists,solicitors etc?