The Angers city will not allow stores to open on Sundays before Christmas

The negative trends in the Angers economy have, maybe, not yet be understood by local representatives. In a series of meetings with inhabitants of the Lac de Maine district, and among them stores owners, the Angers mayor, Frédéric Beatse, announced that not a single mayor of Angers Loire Métropole authority will grant authorization for shops to work on the last Sunday before Christmas. 

It's not sure such a decision will please store owners of Angers down town who will demonstrate once again on Tuesday against the city policy regarding shops. The opening of stores during the no working days of the end of year holidays is one of their claims. It would be consistent that, at the same period, the city decides that wooden huts set up during the same period be closed too. But that would perhaps reduce the interest to get from town hall a (charged) place in down town streets.

The Sundays before Christmas are "an auspicious period for shops" said recently the president of their association, Fabien Rebours. "The wooden huts rent by the town are authorized to open but at the same time the store owners have not that right. This is unfair competition. We ask fairness for all, the same rule for all". Such a demand, for a few days per year, will contribute to the vitality of Angers down town, an issue which certainly interests the mayor.