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From: edusoft@utecfa.UUCP (Educational Software)
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Subject: Re: Sunday openings
Message-ID: <1942@utecfa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 4-Dec-86 21:48:20 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  4 21:48:20 1986
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In article watdcsu.2819,  brewster@watdcsu.UUCP writes:
  
> Sunday openings are the worst idea around.  In the short run it may
> be better for the store to open if the competitors don't, but in the
> long run everyone will be open, and there is no advantage.  In fact,
> there are huge disadvantages.  i.e. increased overhead for sales staff
> without increased sales, a lot more time spent away from family by
> the people who must work on Sunday.
> 
> The idea that being open more days will increase sales is plainly
> idiotic in the long run.  This is like saying that if every store
> stayed open 24 hours every day, sales would increase even more.
> 
> I have no particular interest in keeping stores closed on Sunday
> because it is the day or rest,  long term analysis just indicates
> that there are no advantages to staying open.
> 
> Protest Sunday openings, shop at stores which don't open Sundays.
>                                                  
This was in reply to a man who stated that he was an orthodox Jew,
and that Sundays would provide him with more time to shop as he does
not want to break the sabbath by shopping on Saturdays.

Nobody is saying that anyone has to open their stores 7 days a week, 
24 hours a day, such as you suggest.  People could open their stores
Wednesday thru Sunday, taking Monday and Tuesday as their "weekend".
Or, if they want to be open 6 days a week, they might want to take
Saturday off instead (say for personal religious reasons).  The law
as it is presently formulated is religious persecutation, not a labor
law.  It tells everybody that they cannot open on SUNDAY, a particular
day of the week.  Think how absurd it would be if the law said you
could be open any day but Thursday.  You cannot open on Sunday because
Sunday is a religious holiday for the people who made the law and 
who want to keep it.  

If we think that not working all 7 days of a week is an important labor
issue, then lets write a law that says that no employer can force any
employee to work on 7 consecutive days.  This would protect the 
employees without religious persecution.  Additionally, employees
might be granted the right to choose which day they want as their 
weekly holiday (for religious reasons or whatever).  This way the
situation would much fairer to those people who want to work
(or shop) on Sundays.

bill idsardi
educational software products
1263 bay st.
toronto
922-0087