A lot of places are voluntarily closed on Sunday, but how many a big deal about it?

[pstokely]

most will just say they're closed Sunday on their listed hours and not make a big deal about it, Chick-Fil-A posts "CLOSED SUNDAY" on big letters on their giant sign outside and on highway markers, they seem to go out their way to say they're closed on Sunday's

[Kalidurga]

1. Not many of those businesses are fast food though in popular locations like malls

If I hadn't been on DU for the last couple of days I would not have known this. I think it is a stupid position to take anyway. People still eat on Sundays.

[pstokely]

2. And what about religions that forbid working on another day besides Sunday

Do they gave Seventh Day Adventists Saturydays off?

[WillowTree]

6. You might be surprised.

Did you know that a lot of Jewish doctors and dentists have weekend office hours on Sunday, but not Saturday, to make it convenient for their Jewish bretheran who work M-F to make appointments? They accommodate their own, which I think is cool.

[Skittles]

3. and a lot of people WORK on Sundays

I haven't had Sundays off in over a decade

[pstokely]

4. But it's "christian" to pay employees minimum wage on another day besides Sunday

How do they expect their employees to be good tithers?

[Skittles]

7. yup

[Populist_Prole]

13. Tell me about it!

Where I work, you need 20 years of seniority to get even a piece of the weekend off....on the graveyard shift. To get weekends off on day shift you need to have hired when Carter was still president.

Funny thing about having middle of the week days off is that after a while, it all feels normal; that is until you try to arrange some sort of social get-together with a friend who is a 9 to 5 monday through friday type.

Anymore, weekends or even holidays don't mean jack to me anymore....................

[Skittles]

14. I actually choose to work weekends

I like being away from the herd - there's always a coworker with kids who wants the weekends off

and yup - I was working during the Carter years

[pstokely]

8. If they want to be closed on Sundays, it's their loss

and if they also want to take bigoted positions, that's also their loss. I don't expect Chick-Fil-A to launch a massive expansion in San Fran or Boston anytime soon

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

5. I'm so old...........

How old am I? I'm so old I remember when almost EVERY business was closed on Sunday. Really! Into the early 60's Sunday was not like every other day. You couldn't go buy stuff.............

[Posteritatis]

9. Most businesses in my neck of the woods *weren't allowed* to open Sundays until 2004 or so. (nt)

[freshwest]

10. Yeah, I remember. No one died from it, essential things like public services didn't close down.

And not all the restaurants did, either. There were blue laws, and they were supposed to be about church and a day of rest.

But labor supported it as well, even though it wasn't about religion. It was not necessary to use them to get people a day off work in some sectors of work. The 8-hour, 40-hour work week was what most people had, but those who didn't have the advantage of a 5 day work week were at least not being forced to work seven.

Things were slower then, less demand for instant gratification and non-stop consumerism. I don't see anything wrong with that and some people want to close more things down on holidays than before, to give people time with their families. We don't have to be able to spend money every day.

We have more of a working class that is not given any respect, and forced to be on call for 7 days a week all year long with little consideration. The fact this discriminates against those people is not considered important anymore. At least they may get some days off a week. But we don't mandate they get a day off, period.

It's all about convenience and having them available like machinery to do as we want them to do. For many who expect them to be on call, are living with similar schedule now, with little respect for the lives they need to live outside the work.

But, as far as being closed on Sunday being religious, I don't know if that is what this is. After all, going to church on Sunday is considered the road to Hell by 7th-day Adventists, because Jews go to services on Saturday. And the Muslims go on Fridays, I think. So they can work it out among themselves.

For me, the secularist, I want people to get days off and be able to break out of the routine that retail work demands.

JMHO and experience. others' may vary widely.

[ChazII]

11. +1

I remember those days as well. Thank you for the excellent points in your post.

[Lugnut]

12. I must be old too.

When I started to work at a local A&P store in the mid-70s we were not open on Sundays. Other grocery stores around here weren't either. Pennsylvania had Blue Laws that prohibited a lot of businesses from being open.