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TexasTowelie

(116,744 posts)
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 05:41 AM Dec 2018

Sunday morning shopping ban targeted by North Dakota lawmakers

BISMARCK — North Dakota lawmakers are taking another crack at undoing the state's ban on Sunday morning shopping.

State Rep. Shannon Roers Jones, R-Fargo, said Wednesday, Dec. 19, she's introducing legislation to repeal most of the Sunday closing law, allowing retailers to choose whether to open their doors that morning.

“The basic idea is to put the decision-making power back in the hands of the business owner,” she said. “We’re basically taking the government out of the decision-making process.”

The bill would also prevent retailers from being forced to open on Sunday as part of a lease, franchise agreement or other contract executed before Jan. 1.

Read more: https://www.inforum.com/news/government-and-politics/937318-Sunday-morning-shopping-ban-targeted-by-North-Dakota-lawmakers

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Sunday morning shopping ban targeted by North Dakota lawmakers (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2018 OP
When I was a kid stores were closed on Sunday in OH. Drug stores were the only wasupaloopa Dec 2018 #1
I can't buy wine on Sunday morning. mwb970 Dec 2018 #2
New Jersey had that bullshit in the '50's. 3Hotdogs Dec 2018 #3
I thought all the states had ended those stupid laws back in the 1970s. sinkingfeeling Dec 2018 #4
 

wasupaloopa

(4,516 posts)
1. When I was a kid stores were closed on Sunday in OH. Drug stores were the only
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:01 AM
Dec 2018

places open. They began to sell other things beside medical items because they were the only ones open and they could.

Then K-mart came on the scene and were open 7 days a week. Churches began a campaign with the slogan, “stop, don’t shop on Sunday.”

mwb970

(11,700 posts)
2. I can't buy wine on Sunday morning.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:23 AM
Dec 2018

I live in Columbus, Ohio. Sometimes I shop for groceries on Sunday. Sometimes wine is on my list. But I'm out of luck. While the Christians are in their churches singing and praying and chanting or whatever they do, *I* can't buy wine at the grocery store. Why not?

Why do religious people get to tell me, an atheist, when I can and cannot buy wine? This is what I dislike so much about Christians. They are DETERMINED to force their values and harsh, Shariah-like restrictions on everyone in America. How can we stop this?

3Hotdogs

(13,394 posts)
3. New Jersey had that bullshit in the '50's.
Thu Dec 20, 2018, 07:23 AM
Dec 2018

Then it was revised to allow for food, and pharmaceuticals. Fuel also, after all ya gotta get the rubes to church so as they can put their money in the till.

Later, it was put in a county, by county referendum. Only one county is still "closed" on Sundays. So you go to the supermarket and there are ropes around the light bulb and kitchen gadget sections.

The funny part is, that county, Bergen, has a significant Jewish population.

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