Whatever Happened To 'Yes, It's Sad, But Life Goes On'?

[douglas9401]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62879563

[andy-hughes]

Huge numbers of people will watch the ceremony, meaning that shops will be deserted, and a BH means that shop staff will be able to watch a piece of history, and not be standing around in empty stores all day.

[Peter Pedant]

or indeed
Old Queens dont die every day !

[jno]

the Queen's Deathday Holiday could become a regular thing in the calendar. But I'm all in favour of shop staff getting some extra time off, whether they stand outside the abbey or not

[Peter Pedant]

and some one else said
are there no play-back sites

( thx to Dickens, are there no prisons are there no workhouses)

[jno]

as they say on Sky Sports, "It's only live once".

[pimplyteen]

Monday is not a busy day for shops anyhow after the weekend including supermarkets.

[bobbinwales]

And what people might of bought something on Monday many will most probably buy it Sunday or Tuesday. Shares in some stores seemed to rise today

[douglas9401]

Oh that's right, shops are famously deserted on bank holidays.

Please!

[Peter Pedant]

Queen's Deathday Holiday
foo that is an idea - -
like Good Friday, St Stephen's Day ( he gets stoned and not on cannabis if you get my meaning) SS Peter and Paul, nailed to an X - St Andrews - nailed upside down, Little St Hugh ( boiled and eaten by.... oops) - 40 martyrs, forty unpleasant ways to die
Charles king and martyr - Charles I to the rest of us !

rare opportunity to drag iconography - ok well martyrology into the atheist domain of AB

[Peter Pedant]

doug you are being contrary and upsetting
there is no law that says a post on AB has to make sense

[douglas9401]

:-)

[New Judge]

//Oh that's right, shops are famously deserted on bank holidays.//

But this is not a normal Bank Holiday. It has been granted so that people may pay their respects to The Queen, not so that they can go to Sainsbury's. Of course some people will have to work on that day, but shopworkers need not.

[jno]

Laurence and his griddle, Catherine and her wheel - at least she used to be remembered on 5 November

[THECORBYLOON]

"Of course some people will have to work on that day, but shopworkers need not."

The shop workers WILL have to work unless their employers allow them to take that day off.

[New Judge]

I said "need" Corby. Let's put it like this, then: "There is no need for shops to open on 19th" (then the staff will not have to work).

A number of large retailers have already said they will close:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62879563

[THECORBYLOON]

I know what you wrote but if the employer decides, for whatever reason, the employees need to work, they have to go in or face the consequences.

[Barmaid]

I imagine that there will be panic buying on Saturday or Sunday since most of the big supermarkets will be closed for 4 hours on Monday.

[douglas9401]

One out, all out. The retail industry morphs into the rabid left.

Closure is a virtue and here's the signal.

[jno]

shops only opened five days a week when I was young, fewer at Christmas and Easter. It was hell.

[douglas9401]

Ain't progress wonderful? Night.