What are regulations for Easter trading? [OT]

"Geronimo W. Christ Esq" wrote in message
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Who gets to say what is "religiously important" anyway ? I could set up my
Church of Arse and declare that all seven days of the week are religious
important and demand legislation to keep everyone out of the shops ?

I thought they'd already done that - except they called it the Labour Party?



--
Noel Paton

Because many of those "silly people" would have to work on a day that is
religously important to them. WTF is the problem with many shoppers? Why
can't they cope if the shops are going to be shut for twenty four hours?

Never ceases to amaze me the panic that gets into people when the big shops
shut for a day or the sheer hysterical buying if they shut for 2 days. You
would think some people are stocking up to try and see themselves through a
nuclear winter.

The intelligence of the average UK shopper seems more than a little suspect
at times. The mere hint of a possible scarcity of anything they will go and
clear the shelves regardless of wether they need it or not.

Who gets to say what is "religiously important" anyway ? I could set up
my Church of Arse and declare that all seven days of the week are
religious important and demand legislation to keep everyone out of the
shops ?

You could but England is a religious state - religion and the state have not
been separated. The state has an official religion its C of E. So your
church would not be the official religion.

It's not important to me, so why should I lose out, why shouldn't I be
allowed to work that day?


You can go and work somewhere that opens all day everyday regardless. If you
really do work for a shop that isn't allowed to trade on a couple of days a
year. Then you knew of the laws applying when you took the job, if you
didn't your ignorance of the applicable laws is not our problem.

"RiTSo" wrote in message
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Sparks wrote:

:: It's 3000 square feet, not metres!

: I did wonder where there is a shop that was 3 Kilometres wide and
: long!!
3km x 3km = 9000 square metres

(R. Mark Clayton) wrote:

however a new entrant without the sky high overheads of large
stores and just an el cheapo warehouse on an industrial estate
could undercut them savagely

I can tell you now that delivering groceries without a big increase in
delivery charges will never be profitable; it's a loss-leading service
subsidised by the main, much more cost-effective store-based operation.
The additional overheads (cost of picking, vans, fuel, drivers,
additional infrastructure & IT equipment) is all on top of the normal
costs of supplying the same products to store-based customers. The
delivery charge goes some way towards covering that, but nowhere near
all at current levels. It's all about capturing customers rather than
letting someone else have them, not about profit. We live in strange
times.

Andrew McP

me wrote:

"RiTSo" wrote in message
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Sparks wrote:

:: It's 3000 square feet, not metres!

: I did wonder where there is a shop that was 3 Kilometres wide and
: long!!
3km x 3km = 9000 square metres

Wrong again!

"SteveH" wrote in message
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David Marshall wrote:

In article ,
Richard Colton wrote:
Because many of those "silly people" would have to work on a day that is
religously important to them.

You assume that unlimited Sunday trading would mean that shopworkers were
forced to work on days that had significance to them. That is not the
case, even now:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Employment/...dTimeOff/Worki
ngHoursAndTimeOffArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10028516&chk=plRNsk

If you believe the Sunday 'opt out' actually offers some level of
protection to the average retail worker, then you're sadly mistaken.

Due to the alarmingly low rates of union membership (and a totally
spineless main union) there is, in practice, very little Sunday opt-out
protection within the industry.

FWIW, I once made noises about signing the opt-out when I was a deputy
manager for Safeway, only for my boss to tell me he'd have to reconsider
my suitability for the role.....

He would then be acting illegally had he done so. Had he not found in your
favour you would have had every right to take him and Safeway to
court/tribunal. You do not need a union for that.

MC

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:46:33 +0100, Graham Murray
wrote:

Andy writes:

ISTR that Xmas and Easter were the two days when large shops had to
close. Is this true?

ISTR that there used to be 2 days in the year when all shops,
including Newsagents (hence no newspapers on those days), were
closed. These were Christmas day and Good Friday. So why (and when)
did it change so that Easter Sunday rather then Good Friday was the
'taboo' day for opening?

Don't remember that at all. I can remember the banks opening on Good
Friday, and the supermarkets covering up all the booze after some time
in the afternoon, and I think opening it up again at 6-00 pm.

DG

wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:31:27 GMT, "me" wrote:


"RiTSo" wrote in message
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Sparks wrote:

:: It's 3000 square feet, not metres!

: I did wonder where there is a shop that was 3 Kilometres wide and
: long!!
3km x 3km = 9000 square metres

I was brought up to understanding that we used feet and inches as
units of measurement in this country not the stupid foreign units of
measurement that you use here. The more people here go with the
European units of measurement etc the sooner we shall all have to be
using the damned Euro along with the rip-off that will entail sod the
EU .

Before you complain, you should try to learn the difference between meters
and square meters, feet and square feet.