Whats the deal with sunday trading hours?

[Gazza77]

Originally Posted by jamesterror

It doesn't open job opportunities as businesses will probably get part timers to fill in the hours. Most the part timers at where I work are students, I've done a 64 hour week that was killer.

Convience stores are there for out of hours trading, supermarkets such as Sainsbury's have the convience stores, its just whether the business has the capital to diversify into that with all the competition.

Its not finacially viable in my eyes to open longer trading hours on a Sunday, the demand isn't there. Plus try getting employees to work earlier / later on a Sunday from what there use to would be interesting

In fairness, demand may well be there. You also however start running the risk of driving competition into the ground. Tesco open 24/7, so smaller stores either have to or die out. You either end up with small family traders running themselves into the ground or no competition. i know which I'd rather have.

[Viney]

Stores under a certian Square footage are allowed to trade longer on a sunday.

Shops should open sunday hours all through the week during these difficult times. It would save businesss money etc.

Originally Posted by Gazza77

So lets say that I want to organise a rideout. I work Monday to Friday (as do the majority of people), so I plan it for a weekend. However, I now have someone with Monday and Tuesday off, someone else with Tuesday and Wednesday off, etc. You get the idea.

By getting more people working different hours, social events become more difficult to organise, and society suffers.

It's the same with technology. Computers were designed to make life easier: remember the thought of robots doing all housework in the 1950s? All that PCS/blackberries/other technological tools used by companies mean is that everything is expected quicker and quicker instead. More stressful lives, not less.

Fair point, but just get the students to fill in the hours. In my college so many people are looking for part time work and they would be very happy to have a sunday shift.
Obviously every store will vary in how busy it gets, but i can only go by the shop i work in which has a lot of business on sunday and would certainly make a lot more money if they stayed open. None of the older employees work sundays, its all the students since everyone else tends to take sunday off.

I while back I dossed down at a TA centre in Sheffield on a Saturday night after a bit of a do. Next morning I wandered over to Netto as me and Ibby were starving. I couldn't believe the number of people waiting for it to open on a Sunday morning. When the manager raised the security shutter some people couldn't even wait for it to get high enough to walk in without bending down!

Some people really do need to 'get a life'!

It's an offence for larger shops (approx > 1650m2) to open beyond those hours. It used to be an offence for them to open at all, and the current law is a fudge after years of wrangling on the issue. The 'Keep Sunday Special' campaign is a powerful lobby group. Also, stores can't sack somebody for refusing to work on Sunday.

Originally Posted by Ed

It's an offence for larger shops (approx > 1650m2) to open beyond those hours. It used to be an offence for them to open at all, and the current law is a fudge after years of wrangling on the issue. The 'Keep Sunday Special' campaign is a powerful lobby group. Also, stores can't sack somebody for refusing to work on Sunday.

In that case, people can choose to work sunday, so managers should be able to choose whether or not to open the store due to high demand.
Those that dont aggree with working sundays dont have to work, and those that dont aggree with shops opening sundays dont have to shop there (when they realise theyre out of bread and milk they may change their mind ). It should be up to the companies themselves to make the decision.

[dizzyblonde]

I wish somebody would ban working on a Sunday. I work every weekend, I'm contracted to. I work 36 hrs on nights one weekend, then 24 on days the other. As companies get greedy, and supply and demand gets bigger they have to find some way of doing it all, and unfortunately that comes down to me.
Damn unsociable, damn family crushing, and should be banned i tell yer. If everything shut on a Sunday, and got back to the day of old fashioned values things would be a whole load better in this world....just for starters...I'm also wearing rose tinted glasses too.
Because everything is so 24/7 these days nobody seems to be able to get a real life anymore...its all work work work!

P.S I work for an international confectioners that supply all those greedy supermarkets with truck loads of tinned sweets and eggs

Oops, just checked - it's 280m2, far less than I thought.

This law does not apply in Scotland, where shops can choose their own hours.

Originally Posted by dizzyblonde

I wish somebody would ban working on a Sunday. I work every weekend, I'm contracted to. I work 36 hrs on nights one weekend, then 24 on days the other. As companies get greedy, and supply and demand gets bigger they have to find some way of doing it all, and unfortunately that comes down to me.
Damn unsociable, damn family crushing, and should be banned i tell yer. If everything shut on a Sunday, and got back to the day of old fashioned values things would be a whole load better in this world....just for starters...I'm also wearing rose tinted glasses too.
Because everything is so 24/7 these days nobody seems to be able to get a real life anymore...its all work work work!

P.S I work for an international confectioners that supply all those greedy supermarkets with truck loads of tinned sweets and eggs

Like Ed said, you dont have to work sundays. Its one of those things you can get out of due to 'religious reasons'.

I make a compromise between work and social. I work friday nights and early saturday morning, so this means i cant go out friday nights unless im off. But i like the money and if i want to keep working there i have to do those hours. Sunday is optional for me and i wont be working mothers day.

[the_lone_wolf]

Person A wishes to purchase an item at 7pm on Sunday

Person B is happy to work at the shop that sells that particular item at 7pm on a Sunday

Why make it complicated when it should be so simple???

Considering the vast amount of (tax free) cash religious institutions rake in on Sundays perhaps we should ban them from "trading"