Supermarkets and Sunday trading

[R Mac]

Imo they should go back to the way it was and close on a Sunday, give the poor buggers who work there a day off.

 

Life is getting far too busy.

 

Agree, same as stores opening late on Christmas eve so that people who always leave things to the last minute can be accommodated. The reality is that if every shop was open 24/7 there would still be someone running at the last minute. I've got to be honest and admit that I'm as guilty as the next man but if the shops were closed I'd have to deal with it.

 

Not everyone who works a Sunday does so by choice, many would prefer to be with their families as when they're off during the week the kids are at school.

 

There may well be those who are glad of the O/T if it's actually paid as O/T, they may just be contracted to work weekends, but the reality is that those who benefit most are the directors and owners and you can bet that they aren't working on Sunday (or Saturday either for that matter)

[Mesterh]

People need the OT to pay their bills!

 

Possibly but I think most dont want to be there but have no choice.

 

In my book if you 'have' to work 7 days a week then you really need to sort things out.

 

I must admit it is very convenient shops being open almost 24 hrs a day but im sure I could easily cope without it.

[Taupotreeman]

I'm old fashioned and not particularly keen on 24/7 opening. Sometimes it's nice on a Sunday just to window shop through closed doors. Even on Christmas Eve here shops are open until midnight. The almighty dollar.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

People need the OT to pay their bills!

 

All wrong innit.

 

Agree, same as stores opening late on Christmas eve so that people who always leave things to the last minute can be accommodated. The reality is that if every shop was open 24/7 there would still be someone running at the last minute. I've got to be honest and admit that I'm as guilty as the next man but if the shops were closed I'd have to deal with it.

 

Not everyone who works a Sunday does so by choice, many would prefer to be with their families as when they're off during the week the kids are at school.

 

There may well be those who are glad of the O/T if it's actually paid as O/T, they may just be contracted to work weekends, but the reality is that those who benefit most are the directors and owners and you can bet that they aren't working on Sunday (or Saturday either for that matter)

 

[peatff]

People need the OT to pay their bills!

 

It's not classed as overtime for them they only get single time for it as it's their contracted hours. You can turn overtime down it you don't want it.

[karl]

It's not classed as overtime for them they only get single time for it as it's their contracted hours. You can turn overtime down it you don't want it.

 

seriously??? sat fair enough ....but sunday as well? that seems bloody tight

[Mike Dempsey]

My son is a full time student at University and work in Morrisons on a 12 hour a week contract. Just now he is working weekends only as he has another 16 hours a week job during the week. His Sunday hours are paid at time and a half but that reverts to single time from the end of March. This is due to everyone getting a pretty good hourly wage rise. His hourly rate is pretty good and well above minimum rate just now, as his annual appraisal was very good. He works very hard for his pay and often does nightshifts as well. Morrisons pay better than any of the other supermarkets and dont have issues such as not paying suppliers, reclaiming money from suppliers, selling horsemeat as beef and closing subsidised staff canteens. They also started to sell ugly veg and fruit before asda did as well (that one didnt really hit the media though)

[harrythecat178]

Out of interest are Petrol stations exempt as they have a trading area in excess of 3000sq feet?

[djbobbins]

We live in Germany for a bit and the bigs shops over there aren't allowed to open apart from on five or so Sundays per year. (By big I mean anything bigger than a newsagents, although petrol stations and bakers were open). It felt strange at first but once you got used to doing the grocery shopping on a Saturday, it meant Sundays were much more special - for days out as a family etc. This was helped by the fact that you're not allowed to mow lawns on a Sunday (so I was told) meaning that it really is leisure time.

 

Oddly enough, many of the Germans around where we lived spent their Sunday nipping over the border to Maastricht, Roermond or Venlo (the three nearest big towns over the Dutch border) all of which did a roaring Sunday trade...

[Taupotreeman]

We live in Germany for a bit and the bigs shops over there aren't allowed to open apart from on five or so Sundays per year. (By big I mean anything bigger than a newsagents, although petrol stations and bakers were open). It felt strange at first but once you got used to doing the grocery shopping on a Saturday, it meant Sundays were much more special - for days out as a family etc. This was helped by the fact that you're not allowed to mow lawns on a Sunday (so I was told) meaning that it really is leisure time.

 

Oddly enough, many of the Germans around where we lived spent their Sunday nipping over the border to Maastricht, Roermond or Venlo (the three nearest big towns over the Dutch border) all of which did a roaring Sunday trade...

 

 

 

 

 

I like the sound of that. If you want to hop over the border for the shopping you can at least make a day trip out of it. I also like the idea of the bigger shops shutting on a Sunday. Be a pain for a while until you got yourself organised.