London at Easter - opening hours

"Mark Brader" wrote in message
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Tom P.:
Can someone clarify whether stores are open and on which days over
Easter?

Martin Pay:
The relevant law (Sunday Trading Act 1994) states quite clearly
and categorically that no store with a trading area of more than
280 sq. m. / 3000 sq. ft. can open on Easter Sunday.

So? The question was whether they would be open, not whether it would
be legal for them to open.

I don't know about London, but in Toronto I've certainly seen large
stores open on days when they were not allowed to be. The store
owners took the view that if the store turned out to be busy at such
times, this proved that there was a public demand to change the law,
and any fines they incurred in the meantime would be more than offset
by the extra business. (And indeed the laws have been changed, twice
in my memory.)

This is exactly how the law got changed in England

Some German shops tried the same trick and failed :-(

tim