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I remember when stores used to be closed on Sundays. We can close social media on Sundays and reopen monday morning aha

• ben_w 3y ago
  Sunday shopping ban was part of my culture shock moving to Berlin. The calmness of the city outweighs the mild and easily planned-around inconvenience.
  • saiya-jin 3y ago
    Not everybody needs to live in big cities, the calm you like so much can be obtained outside instantly, any day, every day. Plus sometimes when actually having a life maybe other days are fully taken doing something important, so its nice to have it as an option. The societies that have Sunday shopping that I ever visited didn't experience any kind of shopping frenzy during it, everything is scaled down, some shops are opened shortly, some are not at all (or some close on Monday instead). That is all said as an European who knows very well what you mean, from various angles
    • tempest_ 3y ago
      The flip side is retail workers get worked to death. Around here the only day retail is closed is Dec 25, every other day is open. I have not worked in retail for so long, maybe they prefer the opportunity to make more money I don't know. It would not really change anything for me.
    • ben_w 3y ago
      It would be nice to be rich enough to afford a weekend/sunday house in the countryside at the same time as a house or apartment in the city the other 5/6 days a week. Most people can't afford that.