“You forget.....the world ends on the 21st so it won't matter!”

“Not really. It simply means that this year the busiest shopping day will be the 22nd of December.”

“If people have been suckered into a commercialized version of a fairy tale, then more fool them. Keep the shops open 24 hours a day for all I care.


I am a Secularist. This is a time of year I dislike intensely.”

“by dave12548
"You forget.....the world ends on the 21st so it won't matter!"


Oh good, that means I dont have to go Christmas Shopping.”

“First it was the olympics, now this, the slowly creep in the sunday trading laws.”

“Any excuse to open longer. Don't they all realise that we have a certain budget and if we don't spend it on the 23rd, we can spend it on 22nd or 24th. They'll be out of pocket paying wages.”

“@Spildabeenz
I am a Secularist.

I know of a good priest who can cure you of that!”

“No, I don't. If 10-4 on the 23rd isn't long enough I'm sure the supermarkets will stop open longer on the 24th - their closing time on Christmas Eve seems to move back each year.
As msmizzo points out - we only have so much money. Extending opening hours isn't going to conjure up any more of it.”

“dave12548

Made me chuckle.... Would have to be one wonderful motherpharkinpriest to turn a Scientist into a pixie loving story teller :-)”

“Supermarkets conduct far more research into shopping habits than the average person commenting here. Also, their staff will be offered a fair bit to work over the festive period. If the shops are open, I would expect them to be busier than the religious establishments.
If the church which cannot find the sense to approve equal opportunities for women within its own ranks, how can it expect the Christmas period to have such ancient opening hours applied to shops? Indeed, the non-Christian communities should not have to find shops closed during such time either - surely?
In recent times. shops which are open over the festive period are mobbed and there appears to be no protest from the staff who are there either.
If the law wants to curtail the sale of booze and fags to certain times then fine. But everything else should be up to the individual.”

“If people cannot plan their shopping around the fact that Sunday is not a normal day then they need to remember that the shop assistants need a break. It is also a very special day for Christians and non Christians should remember this.”

“If they have staff who want to work,the shops should be able to open at any time,as far as Sunday is concerned religion as out of the window for the majority,so those that want to pray get on with it,but let others do their thing .amen”

“If they have staff who want to work,the shops should be able to open at any time,as far as Sunday is concerned religion as out of the window for the majority,so those that want to pray get on with it,but let others do their thing .amen”

“@wilfredF1
Sunday is not a normal day- does this mean it's an abnormal day?”