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Re: Harry Potter getting left out
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 13 Sep 2001 15:12:56 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jennifer Clark writes:
> Larry Pieniazek wrote:
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> > My question is, do you *personally* think it's a good idea to have a law
> > that restricts when stores can be open, or one that allows large stores less
> > freedom than small ones, or that restricts what sorts of things can be sold
> > on what days of the week or times of the day?
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> I'm all for shops opening whenever they feel like it, the local city centre Tesco
> here has just started opening 24 hours a day and it is an extremely useful facility,
> especially for those of us who sometimes work odd hours. A chat with one of the
> checkout ladies established that no staff are being required to work on the night
> shift, and that indeed they had more than enough volunteers to do so.
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> I remember the old days when shops shut on Sundays, every lunchtime, after 5.30pm,
> and Wednesday afternoon, and it was a total nightmare! You couldn't get a Mars Bar
> for toffee.
If you had the toffee, would you need the Mars Bar :)
(sorry, couldn't resist!)
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| (...) Neither could I resist making the somewhat sad statement in the first place. The irony was that I lived near a toffee factory which emitted a saliva inducing sickly sweet aroma at times when I couldn't actually buy toffee (or Mars Bars) in the (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I'm all for shops opening whenever they feel like it, the local city centre Tesco here has just started opening 24 hours a day and it is an extremely useful facility, especially for those of us who sometimes work odd hours. A chat with one of (...) (25 years ago, 13-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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