March 23, 2005

  • Whatever happened to stores being closed on Easter?

    Okay, restaurants serving Easter lunch I can see, as well as movie
    theatres.  Those have traditionally been open for business on
    Easter.

    But Dairy Queen?

    Sad, but true.  And because of it, Charles shan't be at the family
    Easter dinner, because I didn't think to tell him it is at 5:00 p.m.,
    since what difference does it make?  Only thing I'd been concerned
    about was making sure it didn't conflict with church.

    Turns out this was Mega Bad Planning on my part, as he has to be at work at 5:00 Easter Sunday afternoon. 

    I remember when grocery stores would be closed on Easter Sunday, and
    now they're open, too.  Doubtless Walgreens and CVS, along with
    Target and Wal-Mart, will have their respective doors thrown open on
    Resurrection Day.

    Pitiful.  Just pitiful.

Comments (5)

  • We're doing our Easter Dinner around 2-3. I have to work at 7. I did put on my "X and O"s sheet that I couldn't work before 7. My boss is super flexible. I am opening Saturday, I hate working Easter weekend at ALL but working Holidays & weekends are pretty much required when you work for a theater.

  • I know, you poor lambkin. It's terrible.

    What's really terrible is I'm pretty sure I've gone to the movies on Easter, thus encouraging the theatre owners to be open that day. If no one attended the movies on Easter or Christmas or Thanksgiving, they would be closing right quickly.

  • If a business is going to be open on Sundays at all, then I could see the kind of business that sells stuff that people might find themselves suddenly in need of, being open on Easter (e.g., Walgreens, a supermarket.) After all, Easter isn't a bigtime celebration that lasts most of the day, for most people anymore. (I'd say a Christian businessman, even a non-Sabbatarian, who didn't close down on that day unless he sold medicine had his priorities seriously messed up, though.)

    But Dairy Queen? Like people can't stand to go without being scrumpdellyicious on the day when every store on the block is bursting with chocolate and Peeps?

  • As for movies on Thanksgiving, since that's purely a cultural holiday, I can't say I object to the theaters being open. There are, and always will be, people who have nowhere to go on that day, and even people who have no desire for a family gathering. Going to a movie would be a good option for folks like that.

    But they should limit the showings at least, so that their employees could all have most of a day at home.

  • I remember when grocery stores would be closed on every Sunday, and now they're open, too.

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