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On 2/19/2025 1:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

> We were not allowed to work on Sundays, and my parents were not 
> religious. Sunday was usually spent visiting my grandparents or aunts 
> and uncles. Occasionally we would drive to my father's home town about 
> 40 miles away.
> 
> I don't remember exactly when we started opening. It was a hot issue. We 
> live close to the US border and NY allowed Sunday opening so people from 
> southern Ontario were flocking over the border to shop.  There were 
> definitely better prices and selection over there and the exchange rate 
> was low. Retailers complained that they were losing too much business to 
> the Americans so the allowed Sunday shopping. Stores and malls are 
> pretty busy on Sundays. It's all the people who would have come in the 
> middle of the week so there is basically the same costs for staff and 
> utilities each day for seven days to generate the same sales they used 
> to get in 6.
> 
> 
When I lived in Philadelphia, it was just a couple of miles to the 
bridge to New Jersey. Sunday was very busy at the Pennsaulken Mart just 
the other side.  You could buy liquor too!