December 9, 1984 Sports Desk 985-2131

SECTION

SPORTS - BUSINESS
ENTERTAINMENT - TV

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sale

come off Sunday shoppi

In the process, what
started aS an argument over
convemence has become a
full-blown trend with the
combined pressure of con-
sumer demand, anticipated
heavy spending during the
Christmas penod and cor-
porate competition forcing
more and more. stores to
forgo whal was a traditional
day off.

While Sunday shopping
has been a reality (oO a minor
degree for a number of vears
both here and elsewhere (sce
story page B4), th was onty in
the tall of this vear that
number of places to shap

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boosts mall business

Mall manager John Gordon — Zellers decision to open Sundays on
allracted weekend crowds.to the North Vancouver mall.

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LYNN VALLEY CENTRE

wm otetab asses this

fellers manager Mark Vella has
reason to simile

Zellers
starts
unday

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THREE YEARS after the idea first spread con-
troversy through the province, the wraps have

ng both on the North

Shore and throughout the Lower Mainland.

ranging from small speciality
shops to entire) malls
blossomed.

On November 3 at a press
conference in North Van-
couver, Dick Baker of the
Zellers chain announced that
16 Zellers stores, including
North Vancouver's, would
be opened Sundays
triat period that ends
December 23 That oan
nouncement made = Zellers
the first of the full tHledged
department stores to Cake the
Sunday plunge

for oa

See page B2