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From: rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: "Shopping days"
Message-ID: <339@snow.warwick.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 12:22:15 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 12:22:15 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 11-Dec-85 04:01:28 EST
References: <291@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Reply-To: rpt@warwick.UUCP (Richard Tomlinson)
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Organization: Applied Maths, Maths Institute, University of Warwick, UK.
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Keywords: shopping,Sunday,England,Scotland
Summary: Sunday closing in England

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In article <291@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>I wonder how much of the USA still has Sunday-sales restrictions (not
>counting liquor sales laws, which are too arcane to consider or even to
>contemplate)? What about the rest of the world? Are there Sunday-closing
>laws in European countries? Are Sabbath-closing laws in effect in
>Israel, or only in some areas of that country? What about in Asian,
>Islamic, and other regions/cultures/countries?

There are still laws restricting Sunday shopping in England, although
Sunday shopping has been allowed in Scotland for some time. It is legal
to sell anything that can't wait until the next day, such as newspapers.
It is highly likely that the Shops Act is going to be repealed soon,
possibly in the next session of Parliament, but many shops are opening
on Sundays in defiance of the law as they only get fined a couple of
hundred pounds which is far less than the profit they make. The law is
totally stupid as on Sunday, supposedly a religous day, it is legal to
sell Playboy but not the Bible!

I think this subject should not be discussed in net.nlang so I have directed
followups to net.followup.
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