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The unfair thing about retail and service industry establishments not being closed on sundays while white collar office jobs are, is that schools are only open
by fred92 3y ago
The unfair thing about retail and service industry establishments not being closed on sundays while white collar office jobs are, is that schools are only open during the week, thus retail and service industry workers don't get tax-payer funded child-care on those days, kids of blue collar workers don't get to hang with their parents on the weekend furthening inequality inherent in our society. Obviously noone is per se forced to work on the weekend but in practice at every retail and service industry job I have worked at throughout my life there was immense pressure to work at least one weekend day i.e you won't even get these jobs if you aren't willing to work on weekends.
- hotnfresh 3y agoThis seemed to get a ton worse in the ‘00s. A lot more stuff used to be closed on Sundays, have no holiday hours, and close earlier.
- rando_dfad 3y agoimplicit assumption that having things closed one day a week is bad. It is perhaps less convenient, but that doesn't make it bad. Lived in an EU country until recently, where everything is closed on Sunday. It makes that day much more restful, and it doesn't take long to learn to get your shopping done on Saturday. Also, it is still illegal to use power tools outside on Sunday. Which means you aren't disturbed by your neighbor's leaf blower. Honestly, I prefer 1 day a week of true rest over more convenience but never a true rest.
- hotnfresh 3y agoBy “got worse” I mean more stores started having Sunday hours, extending open hours on weekdays late into the night, and being open on holidays.
- ghaff 3y agoI'm sure the change happened at different times in different places. But in the the late 70s, even in a big city like Boston/Cambridge, almost nothing was open on Sunday. If you played sports or had other activities on a Saturday, you basically had to find a way to carve half a day out of classes etc. to run errands. And to one of the parent's points, when the debate about Sunday store closing laws came up in Louisiana in the 80s, one of the arguments against making changes was that mom and pop stores, largely staffed by the owners, couldn't realistically open for seven days while, for the big chains, it was just a dollars and cents calculation.
- OfSanguineFire 3y ago> mom and pop stores, largely staffed by the owners, couldn't realistically open for seven days while, for the big chains, it was just a dollars and cents calculation. When Poland enacted its ban on Sunday shopping, things worked the very opposite: the law allows a convenience store to stay open 7 days a week if it is owner-operated, and indeed these shops are the places on which people depend on Sundays.
- cfiggers 3y agoIn the US, Chick-fil-A is a fast food chain that closes 100% of their locations on Sundays. And I think that's wonderful for exactly the reasons you're describing.
- brodouevencode 3y agoIt's estimated that Chick-fil-A loses billions of dollars every year because of this.
- nullindividual 3y agoOh no…. what ever shall corporate do… Money isn’t life.
- brodouevencode 3y agoDon't get me wrong - I fully admire their stance.
- nu11ptr 3y agoWhile I'm not religious, it is admirable to me when someone takes a stance on something they believe in at a cost to their own personal pocket book.
- troupe 3y agoI think this would be very hard to estimate because it would be hard to tell how many workers work their specifically because of this policy. There are also some customers who shop their specifically because they appreciate the fact that they are closed on Sundays.
- brodouevencode 3y agoBusiness Insider has a guess: https://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-closes-on-sunday-why-2019-7 https://www.businessinsider.com/chick-fil-a-closes-on-sunday... - and this is a few years old. I'm sure it's probably higher now.
- LeifCarrotson 3y agoI've noticed that a ton of locally-owned restaurants in my area are open on Saturday-Sunday and closed on Mondays. Owners (who often work insane hours, living at the restaurant from open to close) prefer to be open on high-value weekend days and take a less profitable weekday off.
- ghaff 3y agoMonday restaurant closings used to be a lot more common at least in some big cities. (Probably aligned with a lot of theatres being dark that night as well.)
- hooverd 3y agoSunday is industry night and Monday is your day off if you work food service.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoRight, it's clear why owners would want this and how they benefit. They were talking about its effects on workers however.