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From: csc@watmath.UUCP
Newsgroups: ont.general,can.general
Subject: Re: Sunday openings
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Date: Wed, 3-Dec-86 15:53:17 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec  3 15:53:17 1986
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Reply-To: csc@watmath.UUCP (Tracy Tims)
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It used to be that Christian ideology and indoctrination justified Sunday
closing.  It's a sign of the times that it is now fashionable to dig for
secular reasons.  Sunday opening will

	oppress the individual worker.
	oppress the family.
	lower retailing efficiency.

Will it oppress more than it frees?  Will the conjectured retailing loss
of efficiency be balanced by the gain in sales and the gain in efficiency
for shoppers?  These questions cannot be answered before the fact.  There
are too many variables.  There are too many possible measures for each
economic and social goal.  The arguments against Sunday shopping are weak.

There is no argument for Sunday shopping.  There is only the fact that
growing numbers of people want to do it. 

People who claim that Sunday shopping is clearly against the common interest
are full of beans.  ``The common interest'' is not concrete enough for us to
easily relate mundanities like Sunday shopping to it.

The people who incline toward Sunday shopping happen to be winning.  Go
team go!  Watch social values change...

Tracy Tims
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