Angers store owners should send a letter to father Christmas

There is an issue which could be submitted to the new Angers mediator by the city store owners : the opening of their shops on Sundays. On December 16th, some of them were working. Leather shop, clothes store or hairdresser, some of them attempted to get a supplementary turnover in that period traditionaly propitious for purchases. Maybe they didn't got what they wished in financial terms. But if that is the case, their efforts deserve to be saluted because they probably lost money by giving hustle and bustle to the city center generally empty of people on ordinary Sundays.

That was not the case that Sunday. The merry-go-round of Ralliement square and the mobile wooden chalets made come in down town thousands of passer-by looking for fun in spite of a gloomy and rainy end of afternoon. It is not impossible that some of them have been astonished by the change of atmosphere with, and without, stores opened. While many Angers representatives or trade union leaders believe the Angevins purchasing power is not sufficient to let the stores to open on Sundays, the refutation was clear today

And, one more time, Angers inhabitants revealed that purchases were for them a leisure and a family activity. In a consumtion society, who could have thought the opposite? While many projects are launched by the city council, its members should be inspired to walk throughout Angers center to realize that something must be reconsidered in the prohibition of opening stores on Sundays. It would be a wonderful gift for the city.