If you pop into Rhuthun Tesco on any normal Sunday afternoon, you’ll find it busy, often packed. It’s a sad reflection on today’s society that we tend to spend our most important day of leisure shopping. In fact, shopping seems to be the nation’s top leisure interest on Sundays. At Tesco certainly, Sunday is just another day of the week, the same as the other six.
But not today. Today, Tesco’s closed. It’s Easter Day and this might be the last supermarket free Easter, if the deregulationists further get their way. Today is a rare day off for Britain’s supermarket, DIY and garden centre workers. They have to work other bank holidays, and increasingly even Boxing Day, these days.
If you really need a Tesco fix, the only store open in North Wales is the “Express” in Y Fflint (a sort of corner shop) . Probably not worth a 34 mile round trip, when Tesco Rhuthun’ll be open again tomorrow. So, if because Tesco is closed you find yourself at loose end, never mind, there are still 364 Tesco shopping days to go to Easter 2008. An extra day in 2008 - it's a leap year.
If shopping’s so important on Sunday, why don’t we see more shops open for trade in Rhuthun? A good question. It actually marks Rhuthun out as somewhere where Sunday life is a little less frenetic and a little more as it used to be. Except at Tesco.
But not today. Today, Tesco’s closed. It’s Easter Day and this might be the last supermarket free Easter, if the deregulationists further get their way. Today is a rare day off for Britain’s supermarket, DIY and garden centre workers. They have to work other bank holidays, and increasingly even Boxing Day, these days.
If you really need a Tesco fix, the only store open in North Wales is the “Express” in Y Fflint (a sort of corner shop) . Probably not worth a 34 mile round trip, when Tesco Rhuthun’ll be open again tomorrow. So, if because Tesco is closed you find yourself at loose end, never mind, there are still 364 Tesco shopping days to go to Easter 2008. An extra day in 2008 - it's a leap year.
If shopping’s so important on Sunday, why don’t we see more shops open for trade in Rhuthun? A good question. It actually marks Rhuthun out as somewhere where Sunday life is a little less frenetic and a little more as it used to be. Except at Tesco.
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