Path: utzoo!dciem!nrcaer!cognos!stewartw
From: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Newsgroups: ont.general
Subject: Re: Sunday shopping: Is there a middle ground?
Message-ID: <7792@cognos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Dec 89 20:01:31 GMT
References: <25945410.6564@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: stewartw@cognos.UUCP (Stewart Winter)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Cognos Inc., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <25945410.6564@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>I'm wondering if a kind of limited Sunday opening, less limited than
>presently exists but stopping short of wide-open might be possible.

>Can we not apply this to hardware and other kinds of retailers?
>Only allow, say, stores under a certain square-footage to open Sunday?

   In fact this is exactly the law we have now!  Probably many people
aren't aware of this fact.  I don't know the exact numbers, but is
something like you can remain open as long as you are 2000 (?) square feet
or under and have no more than 4 (?) people working.  The 2000 and the 4
I am not certain about, but it's either 3 or 4 and the square footage is
fairly restrictive.  I know that drug stores have special exemptions, as
do stores in a tourist zone.  
   BUT, and this is a big but, we are back to the MALL word again.  If the
store is in a mall and the mall is closed, then the store is closed unless 
it opens directly to the outside.

   Hope this clarifies rather than confuses,
 Stewart


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