I live in Switzerland. In Switzerland, nothing is open on Sunday, by law, except the occasional café or restaurant[footnote]. And it's a total pain. Combined

I live in Switzerland. In Switzerland, nothing is open on Sunday, by law, except the occasional café or restaurant[footnote]. And it's a total pain. Combined with the quiet time laws, which mean that, say, I'm unable to use the vacuum cleaner on a Sunday, it means that I can't even do much housework, and am pretty much forced to relax. So is everybody else. The end result is that if you go out on a Sunday, you don't meet anyone who's working. Parks are full of people not doing much. The mountainside paths have people walking. The roads don't have much traffic. The entire country is quiet and peaceful. So, while not being able to shop on Sundays is still a pain... I can see the benefits. Having a day where the entire country isn't working definitely adds to the texture and flavour of the society. [footnote] Shops in railway stations are exempt from this, the result being that major railway stations tend to have multilevel shopping malls built under them, but even in the land of ubiquitous public transport they're still incredibly inconvenient to get to.