The first non-trading Sunday this year will be the first weekend of 2022. On January 2, 2022, shops and shopping malls will be closedunless they use the exceptions provided for in the Act. We will wait for the next trading Sunday until January 30, 2022.
Read more: Trading Sundays 2022 [KALENDARZ]
Non-trading Sunday – Which stores are open as post offices?
More and more retail chains are breaking out of the ban and it also has open stores on non-trading Sundays.
According to the rulesshops and shopping malls on non-trading Sundays are closed, and only places covered by the exception to the trade ban are open, that is, for example, gas stations or chain stores operating as post offices or the owner (for example, Żabka chain stores) is behind the counter.
But be careful! Ladybirdwhich in 2021 opened its stores on a large scale on Sundays as part of the tests of the postal service, also has many of its branches open.
From September, some of the chain’s stores are also open on non-trading Sundays Kaufland and Lidl. Kaufland has published a list of stores on its website, and which Lidl store is open on non-trading Sundays, you can check in the search engine on the network’s website.
Read more: Biedronka – which stores are open on Sundays? The Polish Post released the list
Kaufland and Lidl – check which store is open on non-trading Sundays
In September 2021, outlets also joined the long list of stores open on non-trading Sundays Aldi i Netto. From October, shops are also opening on non-trading Sundays Auchan. Recently, they have also joined this long list of stores opened on non-trading Sundays Castorama i Leroy Merlin and from November 2021 – Jula.
Read more: Jula opens stores on non-trading Sundays
The trade ban was tightened, but only from February 1, 2022
Meanwhile the government of the United Right has tightened regulations that may limit this trend. The situation that many large stores are open on non-trading Sundays may change, but only from February 1, 2022because then the stricter regulations come into force.
Read more: The trade ban is stricter – what stores will be open on Sunday in 2022?
What are the trade restrictions?
When shopping on Sunday, remember that Trade restrictions are in force throughout Poland in connection with the fourth wave of the coronavirus epidemic, also on Sundays. There is a sanitary regime when shopping – masks, keeping distance, hand disinfection and the limit of peoplethat may be in a given store.
Read more: Restrictions from December 1 [LISTA RESTRYKCJI]
Non-trading Sunday. How are Żabka stores open?
Żabka will not close the stores of this chain despite the tightening of the ban on Sunday trading. This information was confirmed by Adam Manikowski, managing director of Żabka Polska, in an interview with Business Insider Polska. Żabka was the first to open its stores on Sunday using the status of a post office.
– Taking into account the new law, which will enter into force on February 1, Żabka stores will be able to be available all the time and open to customers, because the legislator, which is very pleased to us, took care of the interests of small stores – Adam Manikowski, managing director of Żabka Polska, announced in an interview with the editor-in-chief of Business Insider Polska, Mikołaj Kunica. He added that it would ultimately be the entrepreneur’s decision.
Manikowski also referred to the exception allowing the store to be opened on the seventh day of the week, as long as there is an entrepreneur or franchisee behind the countera. – This exclusion in the act is extremely important from the point of view of not only the customer, but also building the competitiveness of small shops – he said. The location and opening hours of stores can also be checked in the żappka application.
Trading ban – who can trade on non-trading Sundays?
The act on the Sunday trading ban provides for a catalog of 32 exemptions. The prohibition does not apply, among others in pastry shops, ice cream parlors, liquid fuel stations, flower shops, newspaper shops, cafes.
There is a penalty for breaking the Sunday trading ban in the amount of 1 thousand. PLN up to 100 thousand. PLN, and in the case of persistent violation of the Act – the penalty of restriction of liberty.
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