Is there a shopping Sunday today? We will shop there

This year, seven years have passed since the act on the ban on Sunday trade. Initially, there was a partial trade limitation on the last day of the week – from March to December 2018, the stores were open on the first and last Sunday of the month, in 2019 only on the last one. Eight commercial Sundays have been in force from this year. It is about the last Sunday of January, April, June and August, as well as Sunday before Easter and three Sundays preceding Christmas.

Trade Sunday in June

Today, there is no commercial Sunday. We have to wait three more weeks for such a day, because we will be able to do Sunday shopping on June 29, on the first summer Sunday. This does not mean, however, that today we will not have the opportunity to stock up. The Act provides for just over 30 exclusions. Stores can be run by stores where the owner stands behind the counter. Today, among others:

• gas stations,

• kiosks,

• restaurants,

• post offices,

• florists,

• Shops located at stations, airports.

For breaking the trade ban, there is a risk of from PLN 1,000 to even PLN 100,000. PLN penalty, and with persistent violation of the regulations – the penalty of restriction of liberty.

Since June last year, the Sejm has been the project that has liberalized Sunday trade. The project provides, among others Two commercial Sundays in a month (first and third), i.e. principles similar to those from the beginning of the Act. A double salary would be entitled to work on the last day of the week, and the employer would be required to appoint the employee a day off (six days before to six days after the day of work on Sunday). However, the project got stuck in the parliamentary committee of social policy and family and little indicates that a breakthrough will take place in the near future. Even if this happens, it is unlikely that the new President Karol Nawrocki accepted possible changes.

Just before the second round of presidential elections, Ryszard Petru did not rule out that he would submit a new project regarding commercial Sundays. It assumes the possibility of delegation of a decision to trade on Sundays for local governments.

– Those local governments who do not want to open shops would not open them, and those they want would open them He explained in an interview with PAP Petru. – There are more conservative places in Poland, let the shops close, let them open the more liberal ones He added.

The politician indicated that the proposed solution would be beneficial, among others for tourist towns.