The Angers store owners demand to open on Sundays during end of year holidays

The next demonstration the Angers store owners planned for next Friday will give to a old issue an opportunity to resurface : the opening of stores on Sundays. Of course, only a few Sundays have been targeted by store owners : those inside the end of the year holidays. And they recently pointed out a contradiction in the present stance of local authorities regarding the Sundays. 

While most of the representatives of Angers city claim the Sunday must stay a no-working day and must be dedicated to family life and rest, the same representatives agree to rent, on Sundays, places located in down town as well as surfaces in the Angers Parc Expo where, as recently in the Salon de l'habitat et de l'immobilier, business is running.

How the Angers representatives can deny to a store owner to open on Sunday during Christmas period while, at the same time, can rent a place for wooden huts to other retailers? The contradiction becomes more acute with the need, in Angers as in France in general, to let people resting or working just as they like because activity genererates growth which generates jobs. And Angers desperately needs jobs...

On a more temporary mood, down town store owners will demand (with good reason) that car parks fares be reconsidered. After the difficult times due the trolley works which ended about 14 months ago, the opening of the Atoll commercial park who could enlarge its offer of shops and where car parks are free, after the fear due to the pavement tax project recently withdrawn, the rise of car parks fares is the straw that broke the camel's back. 

If some inhabitants feel they are also the cash-cows of the city, it's unlikely that they will demonstrate on Friday because they work on that day. On Saturday, they could demonstrate by not the store owners because they work. All should demonstrate on Sunday, the Angers down down would be more lively! (Credit Pictures : Angers city and Sara)