Tesco Opening Hours

Morba · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:15

Wrathamon said:
I guess that's down in England? I've never understood why they bother with that rule.

Up here in Scotland my nearby Tesco Extra is 24/7... including Sundays!

Sunday trading rules are rubbish imo

Valentino · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:15

mcast said:
6am-11pm but I keep forgetting no booze until 12pm, annoying as hell

We have 24/7 booze in our one

[TW]Fox · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:16

simulatorman said:
Our mini is

Cool.

edit: you corrected it, cheat!

Cosimo · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:24

[TW]Fox;19299587 said:
Cool.

edit: you corrected it, cheat!

What me guv, never!

Wicksta · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:26

simulatorman said:
Our mini is 0700 -2300, the mega one is 1000-1600.

Ahh yeah good point, the Tesco Express near me opens until 23:00 as well - wonder how they get away with it. It used to be a Budgens which closed at 4pm.

tom_e · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:29

Wicksta said:
Ahh yeah good point, the Tesco Express near me opens until 23:00 as well - wonder how they get away with it. It used to be a Budgens which closed at 4pm.

It's down to floor space IIRC anything over a certain area has the limited opening hours

K.C. Leblanc · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:34

tom_e said:
It's down to floor space IIRC anything over a certain area has the limited opening hours

Wikipedia agrees.

Some categories of large shop are exempt from the Sunday Trading Act 1994:
Airport shops
Chemists
Goods from exhibitions stalls
Farm shops that sell their own produce
Petrol filling stations
Railway stations
Motorway service stations were excluded from the act
Small shops with a floor area of under and up to 280 square metres (3,000 square feet) may open if they wish to.

squawkBOX · 5 Jun 2011 at 12:58

As said by others, thankfully Scotland doesn't have Sunday trading laws. So our 24 hour Tesco stores open on the 3rd of Jan and shut on the 23rd of Dec.

MrMoonX · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:16

retarded sunday trading laws!!!!!!!

Pawnless Endgame · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:17

10AM-4PM here in Stafford on Sundays too, but 10AM-6PM on bank holidays. Weird.

Twentyone · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:20

DB_SamX said:
My 24h store closes at 10pm on Sat night and reopens at 10 or something on Sunday

The local store here says 10pm yet it's open until 12 every Saturday. We are never sure if it's open or not :rolleyes:

JBod · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:24

same problem for me this morning, they *just* changed it to browse from 10:30 and pay at 11am... I had managed to get in at 10am due to confusion by some staff opening doors. Then a security guard told me to leave my trolley and either get out until 10:30 or go upstairs (cafe/elec items).

Of course the problem then was trying to pay at 11am along with everyone else that had spent an hour shopping for a few items.

DanTheMan · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:28

All of the big Tesco stores around here changed to 11-5 about 3 months ago. There were big signs and leaflets throughout the car parks/stores.

Pawnless Endgame · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:33

11-5 does make sense. Sunday hangovers etc.

SideWinder · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:34

Why do we have such strict opening hours on a sunday?

DBT85 · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:52

Wife phoned me at work this morning for a chat because she went to our local Tesco that says outside "open at 10" and it doesn't open till 11. All the other people standing around outside didn't realise either.

SideWinder said:
Why do we have such strict opening hours on a sunday?

Despite what some may say its nothing to do with god or religion.

Randomface74 · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:55

Todge said:
Despite what some may say its nothing to do with god or religion.

Then what else is it? I know some people who's complained about working on a Sunday on religious grounds, so just assumed that was why.

peterattheboro · 5 Jun 2011 at 13:58

Some racetracks have a 12:00 start on a Sunday because of 'church hours'.

Absolutley pathetic.

Redrum · 5 Jun 2011 at 14:43

Haircut said:
Obviously there was a complete lack of info in the store leading up to the change so there were quite a few people standing around just waiting until it opened

I wouldn't make this assumption. I used to work in a supermarket and I often worked in the mornings on weekends. Every week, there was a small crowd of people outside waiting for the store to open.

rypt · 5 Jun 2011 at 14:44

Greenlizard0 said:
You get proper 24/7 in Scotland?

Annoying, why do we still have this stupid rule in England. Have attendances figures for church been affected in anyway? A lot of people only get the weekend to do their shopping.

Late night shopping, while great, is also annoying at times.

There shelves are all being restocked so you can barely walk due to all the restocking trolleys.
There are no checkouts open so you have to use the self-service checkout (I HATE those machines).
There is no staff around so when you buy alcohol though the self service machine you have to wait 10min for some lazy staff member to finally come and tell the machine that you are over 18.

This country needs to get with the times and have proper late night stores (what's the use of all the department stores in the centre closing at 5.30pm when I finish work at 5pm?)