We have a lovely NHS dentist,no idea where she is from, previous one retired. None of them have been from this country. I was hoping the email pop up,was some pearls of wisdom on how to stop folk letting their dogs use my front garden as their personal litrene.
I went to Lidl yesterday morning at about 9:30 to grab some breakfast as I'd had to leave home in a bit of a rush. I got a couple of pastries from the bakery and some fruit then went to the checkouts only to find no one was serving. A passing employee pointed me to one of the tills and said "I'll be on that one as soon as we open". I thought this was odd as they were clearly open and people were shopping. I stood there for a few minutes before someone else joined the queue and I told them that the women was on her way to open up. He told me they don't actually start serving until 10am but they open the doors an hour early to allow people to shop in advance. I was already running late so I left my stuff and walked out If they're going to have that kind of system at least have a self-service checkout available.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
They're only allowed to open for a certain number of hours on a Sunday (six I think) Many of the big supermarkets bend the rule by opening the doors an hour earlier for "browsing", ie you can get your trolley filled and be ready to pay when they open the tills. I don't think they'd be allowed to open self-service tills before the official opening time. I can see why it would be annoying if you only want a few things before they open the tills.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
It wouldn't kill them to have a sign somewhere to tell you that though. If I ever need stuff early on a Sunday I go to Coop but I guess they don't come under the same law.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I thought they did, but I don't often shop on a Sunday and it's a while since I've been to Lidl so maybe I'm mistaken.
Just out of curiosity I checked the rules. They have to display the actual opening times but I couldn't find anything about browsing times.
Small shops (under 280 square metres) can open whenever they like including Sundays, so small branches of supermarkets can open for longer on Sundays but larger ones can't. I would guess they all make their express/local/metro - type stores small enough for unrestricted opening.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Only shops over a certain size are limited on their Sunday opening hours. Utterly ridiculous to my mind, but that's how it is currently in England & Wales. Scotland doesn't have the restrictions. Large supermarkets can't even open self-service tills early.
Blame the Christians for Sunday trading hours in England. If the CoE think folk don't go to church because the supermarket is open, they're even more deluded than I thought
To be fair, my understanding is (and my memory from back when the Sunday Trading Law was changed) that the idea was to protect employees who may want to attend church from pressure by employers to work instead.
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If the CoE think folk don't go to church because the supermarket is open, they're even more deluded than I thought
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.