All-day Sunday shopping may be in the cards in Britain

c. 2015 Religion News Service

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Christian traditionalists may not like it, but all-day Sunday shopping may soon be possible in Britain.

Chancellor George Osborne on Wednesday (July 8) proposed in Parliament that communities be allowed to lift restrictions on supermarkets and department stores to let them trade all day on Sundays starting early next year. Smaller shops would also be permitted to open as long as they like on Sundays as long as local mayors and civil leaders see it as necessary.