Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 January 2010
01:1737983Are you all glad that you can go out Sunday`s, with most shop`s open and be able to treat it like a weekday, as opposed to days gone by, when everything was shut, and no where`s to go? Is Sunday just taken for granted now, or is it still a special day? (Not a religious post this).
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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17 January 2010
08:1637994There are more shops open on a Sunday Colin, but not that many; many small businesses don't open on Sunday as the owners have worked all week and want a day off; many who have opend found it wasn't viable - paying the staff and paying for the heat and light, but not getting many/any customers in would make it pointless.
I do think though that opening when a cruise ship is in on a Port of Call day, would benefit them greatly and perhaps having a sign up saying "so and so (the shop name) welcomes you to Dover" would help too.
Taking Dollars, Euros and credit cards is also good.
Roger
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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17 January 2010
09:4237997Colin
It is true im sure for you to shop on a sunday, but like ROGER says the staff have worked hard all week and deserve a day off.
Im not a great one for tradition but the loss of the SUNDAY as a day of rest hasnt helped a lot of people.
We do need to spare a thought for those who do have strong religious beliefs forced to work on sundays.often for no extra pay.
Then theres the everyday person who used to be able to rest with his/her family
Of course this usually hits the poorer paid.
So next time you shop bear a thought on the above
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 January 2010
11:1938011no one works extra hours due to sunday trading, just different hours.
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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17 January 2010
11:4338013Keith, I`ve always spared a thought for those working on a Sunday, as both my daughter`s have and one still does, and they didn`t like it, but had no choice. My posting may look like I`m saying isn`t it great Sunday working, but what I`m pointing at is the fact that shops and stores can open at all, and you haven`t got to wait till Monday for them to open again. Youngster`s, including two of my nephew`s, work in Tescos on a Sunday, and one of them doesn`t care if it`s Sunday or not, he`s earning lolly. Sunday doesn`t mean the same to some of them like it did us year`s ago. Yes you`re right Howard.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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17 January 2010
12:2238015I'm certainly no member of The Lord's Day Observation Society, but I think Sunday holds no meaning any more. I certainly fail to see why, with supermarkets open 24 hours a day during the week, it is necessary for supermarkets to be allowed to open on Sundays and I completely disagree with Roger who advocates shops in the town centre to open for cruise passengers.
What cruise passengers? At best we see a trickle of them in town, and the majority of those seem to be people who are wandering around town having been to the Castle. Dover is not some Mecca for shopaholics, let's not forget that. Small business owners need time to unwind, and I can only think that those advocating them to open on Sundays don't actually own shops themselves.
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Guest 644- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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17 January 2010
13:2438018Dover is a major shift-working town and many of us have random days of the week off. People like us therefore rely on shops being open on Sundays as we may not get the opportunity to shop otherwise. Having said that I have no problem with reduced Sunday hours.
Guest 674- Registered: 25 Jun 2008
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17 January 2010
14:0838026I think you will find many people dont want to work on sundays but dont have that choice.
And with such a shortage of jobs family life goes out of the window by yet another policy
Guest 686- Registered: 5 May 2009
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17 January 2010
17:0438043Not fussed about shops being open or otherwise providing the sun is shining and I can get out on my bike.
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Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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17 January 2010
20:2938078I take Phil's point about shift workers, but I feel that the new Morrisons at Charlton Green will make grocery shopping considerably easier for those that work the graveyard shift.
Perhaps the reintroduction of half-day closing during the week might make shopkeepers more amenable to opening on Sunday mornings?
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 January 2010
20:3138079will the new morrisons be open very late then?
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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17 January 2010
20:3338081I don't know about that, Howard - just that its town centre location will make it easier for many to get there.........especially those from Tower Hamlets, Barton Road, London Road etc.
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Guest 660- Registered: 14 Mar 2008
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17 January 2010
20:4938083It will be good for people like me Howard,as I work around the clock depending on what shift I am on,and I think it will be open until 8pm,and of course living by the now defunct Buckland Bridge Toilets it is on my way to work.
What is funny is all this talk about DTIZ and lack of action,along come Morrison's and it is up and ready from scratch in 1 year
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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17 January 2010
22:1738088quite right john, the co-op on one side of town and morrisons on the other, noth open until 8 pm will be convenient ot a lot of people.
not a good comparison with the DTIZ though, loads of parcels of land, owners of some of them looking for a big payday, knowing that a development is on the cards.
the only moan i have about it is the tortoise speed in implementing compulsory purchase.
Alec Sheldon
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17 January 2010
23:4938096Having worked shift work all of my working life working on a Sunday never bothered me. I am also old enough to remember when nothing ever opened on a Sunday and in my old fashioned way I miss it sometimes, it was a day when people got together and visited each other.
Having said that I slipped out this evening to my corner shop to buy a couple of bottles of wine.
18 January 2010
00:1538097Sunday became secular. A definite step in the right direction!
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 January 2010
10:3438131I believe that Morrisons will close at 9pm each evening except for Sundays of course
Guest 693- Registered: 12 Nov 2009
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18 January 2010
10:3938132Rick
Leave religion bashing out of it for once, eh? Sunday trading is more about the rights of shop workers and the self employed than anything about God; those that want to go to Church can still do so if they wish, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't see why shop workers should be expected to work Sundays because others prefer to go shopping on a Sunday.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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18 January 2010
11:2638145that was my concern when sunday trading came in, it has worked out that some people prefer to work sundays so overall no problem.
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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18 January 2010
12:4838148Sunday has always been a day when I myself like to do as Little as posible, but I guess in this modern day and age shopping on a sunday has become the norm, so I hold my hands up as I do it to but not if I can help it.
