Would you appreciate extended Sunday trading hours?

no, because i do as much of my shopping as possible online. Who braves the highstreet to buy their **** these days? I mean really.

As a staff member, no. I also don't think it has personally made my store any extra money, the extra hours between 9-10 and 4-5 are absolutely dead. Just because we're open for an extra two hours doesn't mean customers magically have more money to spend. Maybe 3 customers, if we're lucky. So standing around in complete and utter boredom for two hours because everything else has already been done and there are no customers to serve when I could be at home sleeping/doing something with my life is not my idea of a good time. & to the person who said sunday shifts were like gold dust in your store, come work in mine! Nobody wants to work them, so the same people get stuck with them every single week. Sucks when all your friends have weekends off.

Also it really annoyed me that the whole excuse for this extended sunday trading thing was the olympics and not wanting the rest of the world to think the UK shuts down on a sunday. Ermm, has David Cameron ever been to Europe? Hardly anything opens at all there on a Sunday?! I didn't really understand that justification haha.

Thank god my store only has one week left of 9-5, then we're going back to 10-4 hallelujah!

Tescos near me was routinely packed at 7:30 on a Sunday evening.

Its about the service to customers isn't it? Its utterly ludicrous that in 2012 you can't buy a pint of milk after 4pm on a Sunday.

I couldn't give a **** about lazy staff who would rather be elsewhere. If you don't want to do the work, there are plenty of people who will. Its hardly like its a skilled job, lots of supermarkets are getting 100 applicants for each position at the minute.

I do agree. I'd also like to add something to the point someone made that it's not made any difference yet... It hasn't because it's not been in place for very long, and most people don't even know about it. I only knew because I work in a shop, my family didn't until I told them.
So I think if we made this rule perminent, it would make a big difference once everyone got used to it. In the place that I went to uni, I was shocked to realise that the majority of shops on the highstreet were SHUT on a Sunday (with the exception of big brands)... It's hugely inconvenient when you can only get to the shops on a weekend to find that shops are either shut, or not open a decent amount of time.

There's no reason to keep the current trading hours anyway, it's an out dated law.

If you allowed 24-7 opening, I severely doubt many currently 24-5 supermarkets wouldn't take it up. Its not like there were any that didn't take advantage of the temporarily extended times, which clearly shows they think its worthwhile.