With just three Sundays left before Christmas and a new system in place that allows parish Constables to decide whether large shops can trade on a Sunday, some of Jersey’s bigger retailers are hurriedly applying for permission to open.
But Senator Alan Breckon, the chairman of the Consumer Council, has said that the process is still ‘not clear’ and made the radical suggestion that shops should be allowed to open whenever they wanted, no matter what their size.
The comments come as some of the larger supermarkets announce that they will now be open on several Sundays in the run-up to Christmas after originally telling shoppers that they would only be opening on 18 December.
Full story in Saturday’s JEP
