Shops not open until 11am on sunday?

Styles

Styles

Styles

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Hi,

Why are a large number of shops not open until 11am on Sunday's now? I've been into town twice recently to find a lot of people queueing outside waiting for them to open the doors?

Are there some new trading hour laws I've missed or is this due to shops finding there is no monetary benefit from opening at 10?

Thanks
 
In England and Wales your shops are resticted on the total hours they can open on a Sunday, to make sure that people go to Church, rather than shop all day.
 
Kinda dumb since i dont think anyone actually goes to church these days or believes in religion bar a minority.

And shops pff just get whatever online it beats going outside in the cold. Besides it far too expensive and tiresome going to town i dont think i have been to the town for about a year or more except the odd occasion i need somit asap like a pillow and tried some out. Only places i go is asda and corner shop anything else is online :p
 
Styles said:
Hi,

Why are a large number of shops not open until 11am on Sunday's now? I've been into town twice recently to find a lot of people queueing outside waiting for them to open the doors?

Are there some new trading hour laws I've missed or is this due to shops finding there is no monetary benefit from opening at 10?

Thanks
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It's a profit thing, there's flexibility within the trading laws and my guess is some highly paid bod has ascertained that footfall will be higher between 11-5 rather than 10-4.
 
The Halk said:
In England and Wales your shops are resticted on the total hours they can open on a Sunday, to make sure that people go to Church, rather than shop all day.
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Redz said:
Correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Trading_Act_1994

Edit: beaten like a ginger stepchild
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Nothing to do with Church attendance, everything to do with rest days for retail workers....hence the voluntary aspect and increased pay under legislation.

This only applies to retail and not other industries, if it was specifically to encourage church attendance then it would apply to everyone.
 
Castiel said:
Nothing to do with Church attendance, everything to do with rest days for retail workers....hence the voluntary aspect and increased pay under legislation.

This only applies to retail and not other industries, if it was specifically to encourage church attendance then it would apply to everyone.
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Disagree,ive always been brought up or told that Church is the reason for sunday trading laws,i thought that was common knowledge and this law goes back a long way.

A traditional English law
 
When the law came out there was huge protesting against it from the Church and their congregations. The CoE still protests loudly at any hint of changing the Sunday Trading laws.
 
kmufc77 said:
Disagree,ive always been brought up or told that Church is the reason for sunday trading laws,i thought that was common knowledge and this law goes back a long way.

A traditional English law
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The original law that no-one worked on Sunday, yes.

But current legislation was not to encourage Church attendance, but to protect retail workers after a relaxation of those laws.

If it was to encourage church attendance, then allowing stores to open at 10am would be counter-productive as 10am is when the vast majority of services begin.

So no, current legislation has nothing to do with religion per se.
 
The Halk said:
Yes, but your Church of England worries that people would rather go to Tesco than hear their sermon.
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Actually, the idea is so that staff don't have to work, as it's the working on a Sunday that is the sin. Well, ignoring the fact that the Sabbath is a Saturday, but hey ho.

Anyway. It's arguably of benefit to the workers, as it guarantees them at least some time off during the week.
 
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