>> I remember the rush to rip the car apart before Saturday lunch to find the
>> problem and to discover what parts you needed; because after lunch you were screwed for
>> significant unique parts.
I remember that too, in the 70s/early 80s although a lot of my stuff came from a big scrappie that never seemed to close.
I'm not usually prescient and I wasn't then I don't think - I worked for a retailer at the time and can remember some of the discussion around it. I just thought it would be bad for the people in the shops. I liked my weekends and couldn't see why most people wouldn't prefer time off then to time off in the week when friends would be working, children at school and so on.
Of course when it came in there was extra pay and it wasn't compulsory but that clearly wasn't going to last. Soon new hires were on the basis of working a minimum proportion of Sundays and the pay differential eroded. Now big multiples might have 50 staff in a shop with barely half a dozen of them full time.
JLP didn't start opening on Sundays until much later, but did eventually when other retailers found that Sunday had the highest sales per hour of the week. I can't see it changing.
Yet another example of inequality really. It's the oompa loompas who generally do the unsocial hours, not the management.
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