Should Western Australia have extended trading hours?

[laura]

I'm not particularly fussed either way. If its about grocery shopping then there's shops open if you look. The local IGA is open til 10pm 7 days a week. If its about retail shopping then think of the pennies being saved while the shops are shut.

It would suck for tourists who come here for a holiday, from somewhere where the shops are open until later. There's only so much to do after 6pm in Perth if you dont have family or friends here.

[travelling_gerry]

The questions put in 2005 were:-

Question 1 - Extended week night
shopping
Do you believe that the Western
Australian community would benefit if
trading hours in the Perth Metropolitan
Area were extended to allow general
retail shops to trade until 9 pm Monday
to Friday?

Question 2 - Extended Sunday
shopping
Do you believe that the Western
Australian community would benefit if
trading hours in the Perth Metropolitan
Area were extended to allow general
retail shops to trade for 6 hours on
Sunday?

The wording of the questions was as airy fairy as the survey put to the WF players last year eg "Do you believe the coach is inclusive of your ideas and feelings?"

And at the time IGA mounted a very strong campaign based on anti Coles and Woolworths feelings at the time and hence IGA maintained their monolopy.

[blueandblack]

and those questions dont ask if we want it or not. can thank the greens for the extra watering down there.

[The EnForcer]

Maybe we should shut down this forum between 5pm and 9am so you can all spend time with your families???

Real smart Happy, maybe you should speak to Coach about that.....and yes I do understand sarcasm and I also recognise dumb comments

[normie]

Drugs, weapons and abortions, according to most of the papers...

What hours are these purveyors allowed to operate? Or are they de-regulated already?

[Hansie]

Why not deregulate trading hours, introduce Pokies, legalise Prostitution, build toll gates and get us a stadium???? Doesn't hurt those places in Europe where it all happens. Dullsville.....Wait Awhile....next label will be Living Fossils...

[James]

Why not deregulate trading hours, introduce Pokies, legalise Prostitution, build toll gates and get us a stadium???? Doesn't hurt those places in Europe where it all happens. Dullsville.....Wait Awhile....next label will be Living Fossils...

You want pokies? You want toll gates?

Screw that. I love the Force and all but I'd take Subiaco Oval over toll gates and pokies any day of the week.

If Perth is such a Dullsville why do you live here? Perhaps you should consider a move to Sydney or Melbourne. You sound a bit like you'd like the Gold Coast.

If you are going to change the opening hours at least only change one and not the other (ie have sundays but keep the during the week hours or open things til 9 during the week but not on sundays.

[Hansie]

Pokies and toll gates = user pays, if you don't like pokies - don't play them, if you don't like toll gates, use a longer different route or public transport.

[Burgs]

First toll gates at the SA and NT border, second set at the airports...

A question to all, if you had the ability to shop under a deregulated system would you spend more money each week?

[Darren]

I shop during office hours - makes no difference to me, unless they raise costs ...

[Sheikh]

Assuming that goods are the same price, I'd spend exactly the same under regulated and deregulated shopping.

The difference would be the ability to go shopping at different times might suit different schedules, but I'm usually able to organise myself around when shops are open.

Actually, if shops were open 24 hours I'd probably spend more - late night munchies on the way back from the pub!

[normie]

...Actually, if shops were open 24 hours I'd probably spend more - late night munchies on the way back from the pub!

Or even a new TV!

[WaterBoy]

From A travel brouchure for Paris:The most visited city in the world;

Opening hours:
General opening hours are Mon –
Sat 9.00-19.00. Smaller shops
may close between midday and
14.00 on Monday. Sundays and
public holidays closed. Many
department stores have one
late-night opening day – “nocturn”
– when shops are open until
21.00. Supermarket times may
differ depending on
neighbourhood. Sundays close
20.00, 21.00 or 22.00.

I'll find out for myself in October if Supermarkets are open on Sundays but probably won't care if they are or not as a tourist i have all day to get what i need. Just thought i would throw this in as a comparison.

[James]

Pokies and toll gates = user pays, if you don't like pokies - don't play them, if you don't like toll gates, use a longer different route or public transport.

I do use public transport and I wouldn't play pokies but I don't consider that the point. Pokies are a blight. They are disgusting in a pub. You see 70 year old women in their turquoise track suits in the pub at 11 am playing on the machines. Why on earth would you want to encourage something that is bound to have a negative effect on some people? For goverment tax? Is it worth it? As for toll gates, where exactly would you put them? I believe more people should use public transport but there are much better ways than toll gates.

I don't like the argument of some people that Perth should deregulate hours because everyone else does. I don't like the argument that anyone should do anything because someone else does.

[Swee_82]

I don't like the argument of some people that Perth should deregulate hours because everyone else does. I don't like the argument that anyone should do anything because someone else does.

It's not a "they do, so we should" argument though. It's an argument that they do, and are, on balance, the better for it. In the case of pokies, we might look at the image of the pensioners spending all day feeding coins into the things and say 'we don't want that'. Might also see the the beers are alot cheaper and decide pokies are worth it. In the case of pokies, it's easy to identify the downside from interstate experience, which isn't the case for deregulated trade.