No holiday is sacred to retail New Zealand

Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Shops should be allowed to be open whenever they like, says Retail New Zealand which has presented its case on trading laws for Easter Sunday.

Retail NZ supported the “liberalisation” the bill provided. It should be up to businesses to decide for themselves whether they wanted to open on any day of the year, spokesman Greg Harford said.

When questioned by the commerce committee last Thursday as to whether that extended to Good Friday, or even Christmas, Harford said: “We would ideally like to see no restrictions on shop trading hours.” Continue reading

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