"Brustadbua" is a shop and bakery that is very popular and busy at the weekends, especially on a Sunday, when it is one of the few shops that is open where you can buy food, including in this one, fresh bread and pastries."Brustadbua" is a term for food stores that can open on a Sunday. It is based on the name of the politician who opened the way for Sunday opening, "Sylvia Brustad". The area of a shop has to be a maximum of 100 square metres in order to open on a Sunday, so these shops, often have narrow walkways between the shelves, allowing them to pack in as much stock as possible, but making shopping quite hectic.
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I had no idea that your businesses are required to close on Sunday. Was this related to earlier religious beliefs about observing the Sabbath? Except for the sale of liquor, we seem to be turning into a 24/7 consumer culture. It's not that everyone stays open around the clock, but in general they can if they want. We have 24-hour grocery stores, pharmacies, fast food joints, and gas stations and most retail businesses are open on Sunday. Wasn't always that way, but the genie is out of the bottle now.
Thanks for the really interesting post.
Sunday opening is pretty widespread in the UK, though there are restrictions. Despite the much-touted "continental Sunday" which supposedly exists in mainland Europe, France is still pretty quiet this one day per week, largely, I think, because of union pressure. Shops and banks are often also closed on Mondays, making it a 5-day shopping week, which seems enough to me.
We really need some of these shop! Everything is closed on Sunday here...
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