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From: sophie@mnetor.UUCP (Sophie Quigley)
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Subject: Re: Re: Sunday sales of cars <and booze>
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Date: Fri, 17-May-85 13:09:21 EDT
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> It is now illegal (within the last 90 days) to sell cars/other-motor-vehicles
> on Sunday in Illinois.  The discussions at the time the law was being argued
> did not ever seem to discuss the issues of church.  They proponants (largely
> car salesmen) said that allowing the dealers to stay open seven days made all
> dealers stay open seven days in order to remain competitive, and since car
> salesmen are almost exclusively commission-only paid, this meant that most
> car salespeople were having to work seven days a week.  Thus the car salespeople
> made it into a labor vs. management issue.
> 
It seems to me that the obvious solution to this problem is to make it illegal
for car dealers to be open more than 6 days a week while leaving the decision
of which day to be closed up to each business.  I guess that would be harder
to inforce though than the current law.
-- 
Sophie Quigley
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