As Sunday Ban Dawns, Here's How Polish Retailers Are Responding
- Companies say they will analyze the impact on their stores
- Big test looms in April when ban will cover four Sundays
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Poland’s ban on Sunday trading has arrived and the country’s biggest retailers and mall operators say they are going to watch how consumer patterns change as they develop their response to the new laws.
The regulations, aimed at improving the lives of supermarket and shopping center workers, is in place as of Thursday. It allows retailers to open on just the first and last Sunday of each month, before eventually extending to cover all Sundays. While stores will fall silent for the first time on March 11, a sterner test awaits in April, when the timing of Easter means that doors must be closed on four consecutive Sundays.