NO! You will do all your shopping on a Saturday when the shops helpfully close early. It's tradition.
Make a list of everything you think you will possibly need and go get it, battling through the Saturday crowds. If you want something on another day that you don't already have, it's your own fault for not preparing your list for saturday properly
I can recommend Ikea on Friday evening. Open till 21.30 and it is almost empty. Great these international companies that do not abide by local traditions
but thats the whole point of sunday shops...is that when u dont make this so called list and u NEED something then u cant get it...unless u treck it to migros city which is a total disaster anyways ....but ikea at 21.30 on a friday nite is probably allot more fun than ikea at other times... as for those from Perth...oh boy it must suck to be u..then again u have the sunset and the beach, so i dunno what ur complainin about
Marks & Spencers opened their Geneva store in April, but unfortunately it only sells clothing, there's no food hall yet.
The same franchise owner (MARINOPOULOS GROUP) also has plans to open an M&S in Zurich before the end of 2006, but I haven't heard any news on that front in a while. I have emailed the company and will let you know what they have to say.
Don't you think that it's funny how the regulations on Sunday trading are relaxed as we approach one of the most religious times of the year? Kind of blows the whole "Keep Sunday Special" argument out of the water as far as I'm concerned
One of the advantages of living close to the airport. If we ever need a last minute food item that we just need to have on Sunday, we drive over to the Migros airport and presto... but I am still hoping for COSTCO to open here one day
I just realized I have to escape Zurich for the new year ́s weekend! New year ́s eve falls on a Sunday, followed by two holidays. No shopping for three days and the winter sales are on!!!!
Call me old-fashioned, even though I'm not that old, but I actually enjoy doing other events on Sundays rather than dragging myself or others down the shops.
In Aargau, it's been the last 2 Sundays before Christmas for at least a couple of years now. According the official monthly "What's on" booklet for Baden, the opening hours for the 16th and 23rd this year will be 13:00 - 18:00, so it appears to be a town/canton decision, rather than one made by individual businesses.
But without the shops opening on the Sunday it means it's one day of the week where there isn't traffic charging through the city - our area is pretty peaceful on a Sunday morning, compared to the mad, manic free-for-all the rest of the week.
Plus it makes the two Sundays where the shops open in December kind of a novelty.
This is what I like about Switzerland. It's not got to the stage like in the UK where you can go to Tesco at 2 am and buy a length of hosepipe or a doughnut or something.