By either floor size or turnover, I'd have thought.

Cant we use cat swinging size as a guide?

No. I have a horrendous shift based job which would be easier to cope with if my shifts started at a regular time each day instead of all over the place. I've written elsewhere that I have done 84-hr weeks previously, though at the moment I've just done 56 hr week.

TBH my comment is directed more at supermarkets/grocery stores. It's rather annoying after a set of nightshifts to find there's no food in the house and you can't buy anything because all the shops are closed.

They're already open 24 hours 5 days a week and until 10 or 11pm on a Saturday. I don't see why they need to open for longer on a Sunday.

With all those hours open if you can't make it to the supermarket then you need to consider better time management.

Here in Germany, only restaurants and cafés are generally allowed to open on Sundays - plus petrol stations, although not all of them do. But that means that the restaurants have to have a "Ruhetag" (quiet day) during the week, where they are closed - generally Mondays for about 90% of them, although a few use that fact to drum up extra business on Mondays.

Fast food restaurants, like the American chains, seem to be exempt and open 7 days a week.

Big towns often have "moonlight" shopping (late nights) and "Verkaufsoffene Sonntag" (open for shopping Sunday), where stores won't be fined for opening. But the number of Sundays is severly limited and generally it is used in the run-up to Christmas, with 3 or 4 Sundays between October and Christmas being open.

Some large strores, mainly furniture stores, open on Sundays for a few weeks, changing between their different locations, while the fist is waiting for its court appearance, the next opens and so on.

Diferent states also have different rules - Bayern (Bavaria) is very Catholic and much stricter, where I now am, Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony) is more open to Sunday opening.

The same goes for Bank Holidays. Nearly all shops, other than gastronomy establishments are closed on bank holidays.

Let's take the kids on a nice trip out on Sunday, pub or shops. great.

I am for shops to be closed on sundays apart from tiny cornerstores and petrol stations.

usually shops pay fines to be open on sundays, but some do such a big margin that they will anyway.

I am not religious but I can support the keep Sunday special campaign. As has been said without it there is nothing to stop people being forced to work weekends.

What's wrong with working the weekend ????

Yes but people need to rest and have time with family even if they are awful.

Why do you think I moved 150 miles to Wales?

Happily for me, I live opposite the petrol station, which is 24/7, and even more happily, I live at the end of the house so I can't hear the racket from the pumps and miscellaneous prats redlining their engines in first, riding mopeds, honking horns or thinking that some overpolished piece of steel tubing slung under their car makes them look attractive and well endowed to particularly drunken and scantily-clad geography girls.

Sadly for me, I'm a student. This means that I require random things such as paraffin at strange times such as 4am on a Sunday. Which is asking a bit much of any shop.

I have plenty here, or Edd could provide you with a more complete range if you need more

Oh yes, good point. I get paraffin on (effectively free) prescription by the kilo. Making the (rather risky) assumption it's for fire-flinging stuff, it may not be suitable as it has a tendancy to be wax-based and fall apart in (potentially flaming) lumps.

I assumed it was for skating.

Yeah, those of you who have me on Facebutte will have a pretty good clue as to why I'm in need of paraffin.