Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping
Message-ID: <7766@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 20 Dec 89 17:00:03 GMT
References: <656@crk56.bnr.ca> <1989Dec19.142917.5512@alzabo.uucp>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <1989Dec19.142917.5512@alzabo.uucp> kebera@alzabo.uucp (Krishna E. Bera) writes:
>The justification these days for no-Sunday-shopping is
>not religious reasons, rather it is so employees of retailers
>get at least one day of rest. I say, why can't they stagger
>their shifts and have some of them take weekdays off?

       Well, you missed the mark a bit I think.  The issue is not
quantity of days off.  These employees will still get 2 days off
per week and those days could even be together, but those days would
generally be during the week.  

   So, what's wrong with this you ask.  Most of the rest of society is
off on weekends.  Kids are home from school on weekends, and friends are off
work on weekends.  Currently, Sunday is the only day that families with a 
retail worker can be sure that they can get together.  Even evenings aren't
safe because those are working hours for retail staff.

   Society seems to have gotten to the point that even when something is
not essential we want it.  The cost to others is not important.
 
 Stewart



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