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06-11-2011, 18:38
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Dubious
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Sunday trading
Sorry, bit of a rant!
Does anybody else think that forcing large supermarkets to close on a Sunday night is stupid? Surely if the law was bought in as it is a 'day of rest' then everything should be forced to shut (not just large shops)? Grr. I want to go get some shopping!!  
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06-11-2011, 21:18
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I guess the days when all shops (bar the corner shop, maybe) closed on a Sunday are before your time!
The current rules seem sufficient to me. If you can't get shopping during the 140 hours some shops manage to open, you'll just have to do without during the 28 when they're not. 
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07-11-2011, 00:43
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I'm not allowed to go shopping at a supermarket but am allowed to pay over the odds at a garage, or go bowling, to the cinema, or anything else!
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07-11-2011, 08:35
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This is one of the things I've struggled to get used to since I moved to Englandshire (and I've been here for 4 1/2 years). Back home in Scotland, it's pretty much business as usual on a Sunday. I still get caught out having to get to the supermarket between 10 and 4 on a Sunday.
I also think the licensing hours are weird. All the pubs shut at 11 through the week. Back home, most pubs are open until 12 or 1 every day.
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08-11-2011, 16:11
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06-11-2011, 21:50
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Business as normal up here!
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06-11-2011, 22:10
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It is annoying tbh, totally pointless and arbitrary these days really
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07-11-2011, 15:44
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Yesssss Scotland has this right for once
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07-11-2011, 15:57
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I dunno... I kinda like that tradition. In small rural areas, and certainly in France and most definitely in Cyprus a lot of things are completely closed on Sunday and don't even open.
Though I accept that in this modern world/life it would make sense to change the laws as in general, and with chagrin I must admit that Sunday doesn't really have the same meaning as it used to (i.e. a Religious day). Still there are plenty of shops open for a decent period of the day on a Sunday. 
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07-11-2011, 17:12
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I agree Will. But then we do have a Tesco Express 7~11 on the main road less than 2 mins away & 24 hr Tesco garage within a mile the other way so it's easy for me to say!
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