Dziemianowicz-Bąk on Sunday Trading Liberalization: Shopping Malls Want It. Small and Large Shops, Employees, and Poles Do Not.

13/06/2024

16:07

Michał Lubowicki

- First and foremost, employees, primarily female employees in retail, because it is mainly women who work in this sector, do not want an increase in working Sundays, commercial Sundays, and the lifting of restrictions on Sunday trading. This applies regardless of the trade union they belong to. Both Solidarity and OPZZ are against changes to current regulations - said Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk in the Sejm.

- Entrepreneurs also do not want this. This includes small, medium, and larger ones. The Polish Chamber of Commerce, which associates around 30,000 entities, is even sounding the alarm […] that the entry into force of the proposed regulations will deprive small traders of the chance to compete with large discounters. Moreover, they point out that when small, district shops collapse, their suppliers […] who cannot compete with larger wholesalers will also face collapse - she continued.

- Interestingly, large retail chains do not want these changes either, because they inform that they are already short of staff, there is no one to work on Sundays, or no one wants to. […] Finally, as shown by, for example, public opinion surveys from May, Poles, i.e., consumers, do not want these changes - she continued.

- Therefore, one must ask: who is in favor? And answer honestly that there is someone who is in favor. That someone is shopping malls. Not small shops, not large shops, not employees, and not Poles. Malls. […] Is the need of shopping malls, standing in opposition to the needs of the other actors mentioned, such a significant social need? I think you can answer that for yourselves - she concluded.

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