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Dikitain posted...

Plus I don't see why they have to pay people extra on those days,

Without Sunday shopping: Pay staff for 6 days/week.
With Sunday shopping: Pay staff for 7 days/week.

It's not paying them extra per se, it's having to pay one more day's wages per week.

Dikitain posted...

IDK, most times I do all my shopping on Sunday.

And if that weren't an option, would you buy less? Restaurants aside, probably not.

In practice, it's not quite that simple, since the added convenience means there's less time between deciding to buy it and actually buying it. That does lead to more impulse buys, since that means less time to realize you don't actually want it. Such nuances aside, having shopping on Sunday doesn't mean people have any more money to spend, or want any more stuff, so stores don't necessarily make more money to compensate for the extra day's wages.

Of course, it doesn't have to be Sunday, that's just the most prominent example of a day off being legislated in Western culture, and you run into questions of competition when it isn't legislated (not being open when your competitor is does result in a lost sale).
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