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Sunday and retail
Various markets are held in the Market Hall, for example: Tuesdays – retail market, which also stretches into the town hall car park and temporarily the Cattle Market, while Brewery Yard car park is regenerated ; Wednesday – flea market ; 4th Thursday of the month a farmers ' market ; Friday – retail market ; Saturday – retail market ( also in the town hall car park ); 3rd Sunday of the month – antique fair ; 2nd Saturday – craft fair.
Blue laws may also prohibit retail activity on days other than Sunday.
Many goods and items are restricted from being sold between midnight and noon on Sunday, rendering virtually all retailers closed in those hours, including malls and large retail chains such as Walmart.
From then on retail trade is only restricted on public holidays ( New Years Day, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Easter Monday, Day of Prayer, Ascension Day, Whit Sunday, Whit Monday, Christmas Day and Boxing Day ) and on Constitution Day, Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve ( on New Year's Eve from 3 pm only ).
Despite an offer from the private-equity firm Najafi Companies, Borders was not able to find a buyer before its July 17 bidding deadline, and therefore began liquidating its remaining 399 retail outlets on July 22, with the last remaining stores closing their doors on Sunday, September 18, 2011.
In the United States, nearly all retail stores are open all year except for in Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and most stores also on Easter Sunday.
All retail businesses in the states, regardless of size or product offer are able to stipulate their trading hours to suit their individual customer demand ( although they are required to remain closed on Christmas Day, Good Friday, and ( in Tasmania and NSW only ) on Easter Sunday, except the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, which can remain open on any public holiday ).
However, many retail owners as well as members of the general public preferred Sunday shopping to be legal,
A farmer's market is hosted among the retail shops on Sunday mornings.
The paper sells within Alaska at the retail price of 75 ¢ Monday through Saturday, with the Sunday / Thanksgiving edition selling for $ 1. 50.
Shops are mostly open also on weekends, many large retail chains having full working hours even on Sunday.
Shops are mostly open also on weekends, many large retail chains having full working hours even on Sunday.
The ticket office is open to retail all rail products for any journey from 06: 00 until 20: 30 Monday to Sunday, at all other times a vending machine is accessible to issue tickets for that day.

Sunday and alcohol
Many states still prohibit selling alcohol for on and off-premise sales in one form or another on Sundays at some restricted time, under the rationale that people should be in church on Sunday morning, or at least not drinking.
Before this, cities and counties of sufficiently large populations such as most of Metro Atlanta already had Sunday alcohol sales at bars and restaurants, with local ordinances to abide by, such as having a certain amount of food sales in order to be opened and serve alcohol.
The sale of alcohol is banned from 2 a. m. to 7 a. m. Monday through Sunday.
The sale of alcohol for off-premises consumption is prohibited between the hours of 12 a. m. and 6 a. m. daily, and state-run liquor stores have limited hours of operation on Sunday.
Remerton is an enclave of Valdosta and is a popular place for Valdosta State University students to live, in part because it does not have a Sunday blue law prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
There was a dispute in the town over whether stores should open on Sunday, and if alcohol should be allowed to be sold, due to a large majority of the city's residents being members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but it was resolved in a 2005 referendum that approved the City Council's decision to allow stores to open on Sunday and to sell alcohol.
Sunday had been an ardent champion of temperance from his earliest days as an evangelist, and his ministry at the Chicago YMCA had given him first-hand experience with the destructive potential of alcohol.
Besides collecting souls, reapers have powers to remain ageless, heal extremely quickly ( George once severed her middle finger, but was able to reattach it by just putting it back in place, while Mason has sustained what should have been fatal damage on multiple occasions, such as being shot and hit by a car ), drink alcohol without suffering a hangover ( see " Gravelings "), and forcibly pull a soul from a living body and replace it ( as seen done by Roxy in Episode 9 " Sunday Mornings ").
When the current Nizari Ismaili Imam, the Aga Khan IV, was asked about his view on the consumption of alcohol in a 1965 interview with the Sunday Times, he said the following:
Campbell commissioned a study on alcohol sales ( written by former Premier Bracken ) that brought about some reforms ; nevertheless, the province maintained a number of restrictive " blue laws " on alcohol and Sunday shopping.
Originally hosted in various venues in the city, the event started as an after normal club hours event and exploited loopholes in Licensing laws of the United Kingdom to allow alcohol to be sold on a Sunday to clubbers at this time.
The 4 a. m. time holds in New York City, but clubs and bars may stay open without serving alcohol ; they may start serving at 7 a. m. except on Sunday, when sales begin at noon.
On weekdays and Saturday alcohol can be sold beginning at 7 a. m., on Sunday alcohol sales begin at noon.
In 1977, the government of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto outlawed alcohol and drugs and changed the weekend from Sunday to Friday, but no substantive Islamic reform program was implemented prior to General Zia-ul-Haq's Islamization program.
Branwell, who had fallen back on alcohol and opium for solace, had tuberculosis and died suddenly on Sunday 24 September 1848, aged 31.
Not only did his religious beliefs lead him to teach Sunday school and to shun alcohol throughout his adulthood, it also aided his political aspirations in a conservative state where Baptists were the single largest denomination.
However, Moe informs Homer that he can not sell him alcohol on account of it being Sunday before 2: 00 PM.
The sabbatarian temperance movement was also historically strong among the Welsh, the sale of alcohol being prohibited on Sundays in Wales by the Sunday Closing ( Wales ) Act 1881 – the first legislation specifically issued for Wales since the Middle Ages.

Sunday and sales
Rhode Island is going to examine its Sunday sales law with possible revisions in mind.
The resolution urges the governor to have a complete study of the Sunday sales laws made with an eye to their revision at the next session of the legislature.
The governor wrote Miss Grant that he has been concerned for some time `` with the continuous problem which confronts our local and state law enforcement officers as a result of the laws regulating Sunday sales ''.
There has been more activity across the state line in Massachusetts than in Rhode Island in recent weeks toward enforcement of the Sunday sales laws.
It declares that Sunday sales licenses provide `` great revenue '' to the local government.
Maryland permits Sunday automobile sales only in the counties of Prince George's, Montgomery, and Howard ; similarly, Michigan restricts Sunday sales to only those counties with a population of less than 130, 000.
Additionally, vehicle sales are banned on Sunday in counties having a population of 130, 000 or more.
As of 2011, a bill has been proposed in the state legislature to end the prohibition on Sunday liquor sales.
Car dealerships are not allowed to be open for sales on Sunday.
Alcohol sales on Sunday are allowed from 9: 00 a. m. to midnight subject to an additional liquor license fee.
Alcohol sales are prohibited on Sunday in West Virginia until 1: 00 P. M. EST.
Late in 2010, some Congressmen ( after the four-day Bicentennial holiday was proved successful ) asked for a law that would forbid the opening of supermarkets and department stores on Sundays, however retailers claimed that Sunday shopping made about 20 % of their weekly sales, more than other day of the week, thus preventing the law from taking place.
* March 23 – The New York State Legislature passes the Raines Law, restricting Sunday alcoholic beverage sales to hotels.
The market was tight and when The Independent launched The Independent on Sunday in 1990, sales were less than anticipated ( partly due to the launch of the ill-fated Sunday Correspondent some months earlier ).
There are no Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages permitted, except at Mayfield Golf and Country Club.
Before long, the News of the World established itself as the most widely read Sunday paper, with initial sales of around 12, 000 copies a week.
Sales then suffered because the price was not cut following the abolition of newspaper taxes and the paper was soon no longer among the leading Sunday titles, selling around 30, 000 by 1880, a greater number but a smaller proportion, as newspaper sales had grown hugely.

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