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Why aren't car dealerships open on Sundays? I'm pretty sure that's the biggest car sale day in the UK. I could have just made 85% of that stat up, though....

Blue laws

South of the border, monster. You can buy a car in Ohio on Sunday.

Heathens

I was surprised to see that some states don't allow car sales on Sunday, and I was thinking that if something is restricted surely Ohio likes to restrict stuff. I had to look up blue laws. :)

In Texas, you must be closed one day or the other, but the dealership can choose which one. It's just silly.

Edit: Ha! I went to go look up the Blue Laws in other states to see how widespread this problem was, and on the Wiki page found this awesomeness:

One weekend day or the other?

That is weird. I guess it depends on if the owner is jewish or christian. ;)

I do think that's why they did it that way. Although actually, the way it tends to work out is new car dealerships are open on Saturday, then used car lots are open on Sundays. For the people who go shopping, get the sticker shock and realize they need to be looking somewhere else. :)

In Colorado the dealerships are open on Saturday, and are much more civilized than the Michigan dealers.

Why don't you just take care of it in the shower?

Hell around here some places are closed Sunday And Monday

Shops/ fast food outlets owned by observant Muslims here close on Friday afternoons for Mosque.
So you could try to shop on a Friday, Saturday or Sunday and be thwarted by religion!

Our local Post Office closes every Tuesday afternoon. Not sure why, but it always has.
And some of the small traditional shops (less and less of them now) still observe early closing on a Wednesday.
The owner-run store I worked in, in Leicester used to close for school events like Sports Day or Nativity, so both parents could attend.
My ex-husband used to close his shop willy-nilly, just sticking a handwritten "back soon" sign on the door. But that was a comic shop, so customers expected that kind of treatment.

24 hour shopping - a long-needed convenience or eroding the fabric of English tradition?

that reminds me of a song I heard once

I've fallen foul of the (now rerealed) alcohol laws before, when grocery shopping before my ceramics class on Sunday morning. 11:55 and they want me to wait for 5 minutes to buy beer. Like I'm going to drink it there and then. Maybe atheists have more self-restraint than christians?

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