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Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Poll ended at Sun Dec 25, 2016 7:32 pm

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Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by boatbuilder » Mon Nov 14, 2016 4:19 pm

A petition has been started to try and get shops to remain closed on Boxing Day to give the shop workers more time to spend with their families. Do you agree? You can indicate this in the above poll.

Petition says close shops on Boxing Day to spare workers

A petition urging shops to stay closed on Boxing Day to give staff a break has been backed by more than 100,000.
Retail workers are "being bled dry" by "greedy employers", supporters wrote on the petition's web page.
Ian Lapworth, a baker from Kettering, started the campaign a month ago, calling for a return to a less commercialised holiday season.
"Forget making money for one day, let's concentrate on making more memories with the ones we love," he said.
Called "Stop Shops opening on Boxing Day", the petition argues retail staff should get a longer break over the Christmas period. It will be delivered to Prime Minister Theresa May if it reaches 150,000 signatories.
"Whilst not everyone may see Christmas as a religious holiday, it should be respected as such, and retail workers (who work so hard on the run up to the big day) given some decent family time to relax and enjoy the festivities like everyone else," the petition says.

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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by nikkai » Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:04 pm

Yes shops should close and not just on boxing day but on other days which were always looked on as NATIONAL holidays, I am NOT Christian I am not Jewish or Muslim or any other following though I AM a family man who knows what it is like to spend time away form the family because of work and now my wife is forced to work over the holiday periods "because the public need the shops OPEN??
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by boatbuilder » Mon Nov 14, 2016 7:36 pm

When I made the original post I included a Poll which a few minutes ago I noticed had 'disappeared'. I don't know why but if you had voted in it and it seems that you can still vote then please do so again as your original vote must have 'disappeared' along with my original poll. :think:
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by funkychick » Tue Nov 15, 2016 4:27 am

I don't think Boxing Day has ever been a day off for shops I remember as a kid we used to have the Boxing Day sales with everyone queueing up at the big shops for their bargains properly the busiest day of the year
So many have to work holiday time Nurses, doctors, hospitality, transport, carers , entertainment etc that I don't see why shops should be different I remember when I worked in a hotel and in an old folks home we worked both Christmas and NY and never even got extra pay now they do get double time
usually it gets worked out between the staff themselves with young mums or dads swapping with single people
The poll is still there for me
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by boatbuilder » Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:46 am

That's odd FC. I really don't know how that happened but it would explain why the poll was missing in this one. I have now consigned the other one to the trash can. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by Suffolkboy » Tue Nov 15, 2016 8:56 am

Yes ! Yes ! Yes !
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by kerch » Tue Nov 15, 2016 10:03 pm

Alot of French can't understand 24hr 7/7 opening :think: and as for boxing day doesn't exist here 26th is just a normal day.

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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by Dave » Wed Nov 16, 2016 11:24 am

Close Boxing Day but add another day on the end of the normal sale period. Families stay together on Boxing Day and the shops get their extra money. People will go to a sale if it was held during an earthquake so it doesn't matter what day it's on. Remember Black Friday, another imported idea from America and put into the sale calendar. :argument:
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by boatbuilder » Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:11 pm

As I see it the 'sales' as we call them arealways on. I doubt a day goes by without seeing one shop chain or other advertising a sale of some sort on the TV.

Have been watching a BBC1 program at 9-15 in the mornings this week about different aspects of London's Oxford Street. You'd have to be either mad or desperate (or both) to want to go shopping on there, especially during the so-called sales.
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by morty1753 » Wed Nov 16, 2016 8:36 pm

I will be working Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day.

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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by nikkai » Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:14 am

It also looks like I may be required to partake in arriving at the place of work....
So no different to being a seaman with this job :lol:
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by funkychick » Thu Nov 17, 2016 7:45 am

I think so many people already have to work Boxing Day that I don't see why shops should be any different and Boxing Day isn't a religious day after all I personally never want to do anything much on Boxing Day so wouldn't be adding to the economy but it should be down to individual shops Really to decide
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by nikkai » Thu Nov 17, 2016 1:26 pm

Im having trouble even remembering when I was home for Christmas boxing day or even new year, though I do remember when ALL the family got together on boxing day which was probably the ONLY day other than the occasional wedding or death the the whole family did get together, since the opening of stores at just about every opportunity the family gathering seems to have dwindled to nothing so if we could get back to a closer family then maybe that will rub off to the community and so on ?? :think:
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by Suffolkboy » Thu Nov 17, 2016 2:38 pm

nikkai wrote:Im having trouble even remembering when I was home for Christmas boxing day or even new year, though I do remember when ALL the family got together on boxing day which was probably the ONLY day other than the occasional wedding or death the the whole family did get together, since the opening of stores at just about every opportunity the family gathering seems to have dwindled to nothing so if we could get back to a closer family then maybe that will rub off to the community and so on ?? :think:
AHH! That's before everyone had a Mobile phone in their hand or stuck in their ear. :D
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Re: Should shops be closed on Boxing Day?

Post by boatbuilder » Thu Nov 17, 2016 4:17 pm

Not sure where mobile phones fit the equation, SB :think:
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