Majority favors Sunday shopping A NORTH Shore News poll conducted in late December shows that a majority of respondants want to continue with Sunday shopping. Of 416 people policed across the North Shore, 16] or 41.6 per cent: suid they would like business to remain open Su:days throughout the year. That figure represents respon- dants in 22,172 houscholds from Horseshoe Bay to Deep Cove. That compares to 148 people, 37.5 per cent who said they do not want the stores open Sundays. A Curther 47 people, 12.1 per cent, were indif- ferent to the issue and 34 | By MARK HAMILTON people, 4.8 per cent, said they didn’t know. Fewer than 1.5 per cent of those surveyed refused to answer the question, in- dicating that there fs heavy interest in” the question of Sunday shopping. The News poll was conducied on Wednes- day, Dec. 26, when 416 people, randomly selected, were telephoned. A poll conducted by the News earlier in the month (on Dee. 6) revealed that 32.28 per cent of respondants said they now shop Sundays on the North Shore, 13.75 per cent said they shopped Sundays in Van- couver and 8.25 per cent said they shopped Sun- days in other Lower Mainland municipalities. While the consumers have had their say in favor of Sunday shepp- ing, there is as yet no firm indication what will happen on the retail front as far as Sunday opening is concerned, The majority of stores that began opening Sun- days in December re- mained open last week NEWS photo fan Smith STONG'S Larry Vatkin — big things are expected from the outlet with Sunday openings. SUNDAYS Grocers happy with concept BILL ROSSUM, vice-president and general man- agers of Stong’s grocery chain, never thought he'd see the day when Sunday would be another business day for Stong’s ouilets. Now, with three of the chain's five stores open and doing heavy business, he admits to being ‘*guardedly enthusiastic’ about the con- cept of Sunday shopping. “Hts too early to tell on the North Shure,” he says of what Sunday means to Stong’s, “out we've had an increase in our volume every Sunday that we've been open at Edgemont Village.’” Rossum feels business will continue to grow at the Dollar Shopping Centre, which opened for the first time on Sunday, Pec, 23, particularly during the summer months. The pressures on the chain to open its stores on Sunday are the same pressures that most merchants have felt over the past six months or so — the combination of fierce competition and de- mand from consumers. It was the fact that stores “all around us" were open that led to the Sunday open- ing of the Rupert Street store more than a year ago, says Rossum, while the Edge- mont Village store begin Apening Sundays in early November after a com. petitor, located across the stféet, announced it would be opening, In Dollarton, where Stong’s is alone in serving a substantial residential area, it was a matter of “relieving the pressure’? of consumer demand, he says. “We had people telling us that they wanted Sunday shopping because they couldn’t get into the store Fridays and Saturdays because it was so. busy,"* says Rossum. Rossum’s conversion from reluctance to enthusiasm in- dicates Sunday shopping ts likely to stay, “The times have chang- ed. he says. (Un mose fami- lies, both parents are wark- ing. Sunday seems to have become the day that families cun shop together. 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