If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that

If a business doesn't have enough employees to open seven days a week, there's nothing stopping them from picking the most profitable five or six. (Or, for that matter, providing a product that's sufficiently better for your store to do more business in six days than the competition does in seven.) In the UK, small businesses (as implemented, by floor area) are exempted from this particular blue law to give them an advantage. In practice, either they don't take advantage of it to open for a reasonable duration on Sunday (or any other day, for that matter) or they're too big and get screwed (as with the independent grocery stores mentioned in this article).