small Tesco and Sainsburys stores to close early

ordinarygirl

hate all sports - why does everybody think it is important? we accept that not everyone is religions or supports a particular political party but when it comes to sport we are all expected to listen to the monotonous speel.

You will support England or else. It's like this tedious sport is forced on you and not cheering on the national team is like treason to a lot of people. Luckily I work with a lot of people who don't like football and it would be such a big deal at work tomottow.

Using We Harmonypuss explains feeling part of the footballing family.

There were some odd rules about shopping on Sundays before the nineties. Newsagents could stay open all day, but bookshops weren't allowed to open, and you could buy meat from a corner shop that had a meat slicer, but not from a butchers. Also alcohol could only be sold from a corner shop from 12-2.

I can well believe that the shops will be empty. When I was nursing in A+E we always knew that major football matches would mean a much quieter time for us!

There's far too much sport on tv, full stop, in my opinion.
They take off the soaps in the week to show football etc, but we're not all sports nuts, and would much rather see our regular tv programmes on at their usual times, as opposed to moved our completely cancelled.
Why can't all the sport be put on a dedicated channel instead of taking over ITV or BBC's usual programming?

Just a minor aside here too, something else that drives me crazy is the fans saying "WE won/lost/played...". Were these people actually on the pitch, chasing the ball themselves? NO! So why on earth do they insist on saying 'WE'?
The correct terminology would be "The team I support/team name/they played/won/lost etc", otherwise you're implying that you 'personally' were part of the team, which in more than 99.99% of cases is untrue.

4allweknow

Shops used to be closed on Sundays and Wednesday afternoon where I lived when young. I can't understand all the fuss about the football,after all folk can watch recordings. Wasn't interested in 1966 either and can't remember if shops, businesses closed then to accommodate supporters.

They didn’t. I had a Saturday job in the local newsagent’s in 1966. The football match was on the radio in the back room. We were working.

Joseann

knspol

I'm amazed that children are being allowed to go into school late because of a football match. What next? What is this teaching them about life - have a late night so go into work late the next day?

Children of Junior School age need at least 10 hours sleep. If the match goes on until 11pm with extra time, plus the usual beastly penalties, then it seems sensible that a 10 am or 10.30 am school start be allowed the following day.
My DS will be watching the football, then travelling to London from Devon at 4.30 am on Monday for a meeting. Adults can cope with a short sleep without it affecting their performance too much.

My four primary school aged grandchildren have all been given permission to arrive at 10am. Teachers will be in early as usual for breakfast club.

Our children watched till half time of the semi final but the 8 and 9 year old boys are excited to be allowed to stay up.

There are some footie grinches around. Don’t like it, don’t watch or join in, Simple’s

Joseann

knspol

I'm amazed that children are being allowed to go into school late because of a football match. What next? What is this teaching them about life - have a late night so go into work late the next day?

Children of Junior School age need at least 10 hours sleep. If the match goes on until 11pm with extra time, plus the usual beastly penalties, then it seems sensible that a 10 am or 10.30 am school start be allowed the following day.
My DS will be watching the football, then travelling to London from Devon at 4.30 am on Monday for a meeting. Adults can cope with a short sleep without it affecting their performance too much.

Poor things, I think some of them are lucky to get 6 or 7 hours sleep.

@forallweknow they didn’t shut shops in 1966, I was out all afternoon in town with my mum - town was heaving with women trying to avoid the match (and in our case buying treats we had saved for that dad might have thought frivolous any other time 😎)

Locally all our shops close at 4.00 on a normal Sunday. There’s a small Spar at the petrol station open until 7.00pm. That’s it. Not sure if any are closing early tomorrow. It doesn’t bother me, I rarely shop for anything on Sundays.
I’m with the “too much sport everywhere“ gang. Each to their own, but I just don’t see the point of it. I find watching it so boring 🤷🏻‍♀️

Jaxjacky

They are being paid as normal RebeccaJames.

Thank you - in that case I apologise and retract my miserable / cynical message

knspol

I'm amazed that children are being allowed to go into school late because of a football match. What next? What is this teaching them about life - have a late night so go into work late the next day?

Children of Junior School age need at least 10 hours sleep. If the match goes on until 11pm with extra time, plus the usual beastly penalties, then it seems sensible that a 10 am or 10.30 am school start be allowed the following day.
My DS will be watching the football, then travelling to London from Devon at 4.30 am on Monday for a meeting. Adults can cope with a short sleep without it affecting their performance too much.

They are being paid as normal RebeccaJames.

I'm amazed that children are being allowed to go into school late because of a football match. What next? What is this teaching them about life - have a late night so go into work late the next day?

Shops used to be closed on Sundays and Wednesday afternoon where I lived when young. I can't understand all the fuss about the football,after all folk can watch recordings. Wasn't interested in 1966 either and can't remember if shops, businesses closed then to accommodate supporters.

I'm massively cynical about the whole thing - there are going to be hugely reduced sales from 8pm onwards so they are shutting early to save costs on staffing and trying to spin it as a "nice thing to do".

Hopefully the staff that normally work those shifts will receive their full pay but I don't count on it.

Urmstongran

Sundays in the late 60’s and very early 70’s were just so very boring.

Not for me Urms. I could spend nearly all day with my boyfriend 🥰 and eat sherry trifle at his mums 😀

I can remember when shops closed from Saturday lunchtime through Sunday and early closing Wednesday lunchtime. On top of that most shops closed at 5.30pm and often for lunch. It was a nightmare if you worked full time. Everyone rushed out to shop on a Saturday morning and it was chaotic. With Sunday opening it really helps and I’m sure the staff aren’t forced to do this - for some it’s definitely choice.
Re football - I will be watching but it shouldn’t take over our lives- I shall sign off now - have to watch tennis……

I think they are being paid for their hours as a gesture of goodwill, with no strings attached. However, I assume there’s a business case too: we’ll be paying staff anyway, and will have virtually no customers, so this way we get to have some free advertising to cover our losses.

Do you know that as a fact sweetcakes? Because two friends of mine, one works in a small Tesco, the other in a small Co Op (also closing) do not have to make up their hours. Spoke to them both this morning in the village, I was hunting fresh mint.

You don't think their given them the time off out of the goodness of their hearts do you, the hours will have to be made up.

Urmstongran

Sundays in the late 60’s and very early 70’s were just so very boring.

Oh gosh, weren't they!

I really used to dislike Sundays as a child/teen.

ordinarygirl

hate all sports - why does everybody think it is important? we accept that not everyone is religions or supports a particular political party but when it comes to sport we are all expected to listen to the monotonous speel.

You don’t have to listen to any spiel - radio’s 1,3 and 4, and about 99% of the tv channels available will almost certainly NOT be covering the football final/Wimbledon/Racing from Haydock Park or indeed the Tour de France. .

orly

OMG! Closing at 19.30 on a Sunday! I'm going to have to panic buy and stockpile everything.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I was thinking it must be a slow news day where OP lives.

NannyJan53

I was telling my DGD4 (12) how all shops used to be closed on Sundays.

Her reaction was 'what if you wanted to buy food?' Er, you bought it in one of the other 6 days

5 and a half days where I lived as Wednesday was half day closing