Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday Shopping (the law is a Con)
Message-ID: <7791@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 16:38:08 GMT
References: <1989Dec20.222459.21666@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <259070BE.2B0F@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <259070BE.2B0F@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>which day it is. There's nothing special about Sunday.
  It is for the retail worker.  It's the one day of the week he/she knows
he/she won't be working.


>So who's holding a gun to your head to remain a retail worker?
   No one.  Some of the more qualified ones will leave the business. Just
another small price the consumer will pay for convenience.

>>  It is worth remembering some minor facts.  If a store can remain open on a
>>Sunday, it almost certainly will *have* to so in order to compete.

>Why is this a fact? I can think of many kinds of stores which would not
>open Sundays even if it they could. A place like a Grand & Toy, for
>instance, which caters to businesses, would likely find Sundays to be
>its quietest days, and stay closed.

   The nearest Grand & Toy is located in mall.  Therefore, if the mall is
open, they must be open.  It's dictated by the contract that they signed
to lease space in the mall.  More and more stores are being located in
malls.  That's why it is a fact.

>Even if it is true, why can the store not close on its lightest day instead?

   Mall contracts ... must be open every day.  Arguments suggesting that the
majority of stores can remain closed on a different day if Sunday shopping 
is permitted are simply bogus.  They don't hold up to close scrutiny.

 Stewart


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