It wasn’t until 1980 that then-premier Bill Bennett eased the ban on Sunday shopping.
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Eventually the whole region agreed to Sunday shopping, though it was mostly food stores and the Government Street tourist zone that took advantage of the option. It wasn’t until the pre-Christmas season of 1984, with Woodward’s department store leading the charge, that more retailers jumped in. It wasn’t just small business that fretted. So did people who worried about the loss of collective down time, that we would lose Sundays as a time when we would all take a collective breath. Note that in 1967 Premier W.A.C. Bennett, Bill’s father, railed against the commercialization of Sundays as an example of “cocktail, hippie society” eroding family life in North America.
Round-the-clock shopping didn’t catch on, though, at least not in Victoria. The Wal-Mart in the old Town and Country shopping centre experimented with 24-hour opening during the lead-up to Christmas 2006, and a couple of other stores followed suit in subsequent years, but they all soon abandoned the idea. Turns out 24-hour retailing is a tough sell in a 9-5 town; it’s not as though we have 1,200 millworkers coming off shift at midnight.
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