B&Q

[Jim Stewart ...]

Shut on Monday for some reason...what next

[ARW]

I can remember when it was shut on a Sunday but just opened up anyway.

[Jim Stewart ...]

That would be when it was called dodge city

[charles]

The reason quoted by Screwfix (same holiding company) is to allow staff to follow the events of the day should they wish to do so.

[SteveW]

Yes. We had a local one that got fined every Sunday.

[alan_m]

I see that Center Parcs is not only closing their facilities on that day but telling their customers to vacate all of their sites.

[Bob Eager]

They have backed off.

[Brian Gaff]

Milk and More are delivering though. Brian

[Joe]

That would have practically eliminated repeat custom. If I'd been there and they had done that, I'd never go back again.

[Colin Bignell]

Before the law changed, a garden centre I know set up a miniature railway in its grounds and tried, unsuccessfully, to claim it was exempt through being at a railway station.

[Colin Bignell]

To a limited extent. People who were not due to leave that day won't have to leave their accommodation and return next day, but most facilities will be shut.

You wouldn't want them doing it every time a monarch died would you?

[Joe]

It's not a question of whether they might do it again but that they had done it at all, even just once.

[Bob Eager]

And people due to arrive that day cannot do so.

[Colin Bignell]

Yes, but that is not a change from their original announcement.

[ARW]

It'll upset the chavs this one

What the f*ck are they going to eat when they watch the funeral?

[ARW]

And the trading profits exceeded the fines:-)

[SteveW]

Indeed. The situation continued for years. A good job too - you don't want to find that you need a plumbing fitting before you can put the water back on, with everywhere closed for the day!

[Harry Bloomfield Esq]

Burgerking?

[Rod Speed]

But if they never do it again, why avoid them forever ?

It is unlikely they would care that they would never see you again.

[Andrew]

I don't suppose the cows will withhold their milk for a day though

Andrew