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From: reg@whuxl.UUCP (Gunderman)
Newsgroups: net.legal,net.politics,net.religion
Subject: Sunday Shopping
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 08:45:33 EDT
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I have been ignoring the articles that have come by re this subject, but
I read one today and felt the urge to make a comment or statement.

To those who are opposed to Sunday closing laws, I say fine - as long as all
those wonderful and exciting stores are in YOUR town and not mine. I live in
Paramus, NJ, where we are crowded with those "wonderful" shopping centers, and we
have plenty of reason to oppose Sunday shopping: packed highways and back
roads, excess pollution from vehicles, more of the shoplifters that jam our
Wednesday night court (after all, shoplifters may not be able to practice
their trade during the weekdays), more traffic accidents, enlarged police
and fire depts, enlarged road maintenance crews, increased sewage requirements,
busy volunteer ambulance corps, etc. My suggestion
is create a massive shopping area in some remote, wide open area (far from me)
where all the "consumers" can shop to their heart's content and great
excitement, gulping junk food and buying all those "necessary" articles,
before they go out of style next week.

Using caricatures of Sunday-shopping apponents as blue-nosed proponents
of old-fashioned Blue laws who want to impose their (Christian) beliefs on
everyone else is a lot of fertilizer. There are other reasons. Six days a
week and 12 to 14 hours a day is  ample time to shop - or gulp junk food, buy
the style of the week article, "play", etc, at the shopping center in
in ANOTHER TOWN, such as in Nanuet, NY, where they have what amounts to a
parking lot on a portion of Route 59 on Sunday.