Shopping time!!

Two days ago I debated if the stores should be opened or closed on Sundays.

It made me think about Tallinn.

It was our first Sunday in the city. We woke up that morning without any concrete plan. It was a sunny day, so my roomates and I decided to go to the downtown to take a walk, and maybe to eat something there.

As a normal girl, I had my “clichés” about Estonia, and the “always cold and bad weather” was one of them, so when I prepared my suitcase I put only winter clothes on it, but for the “just in case” bikini and t-shirt. So, when I arrived there and I saw that the temperature was 25 degrees, I did not know what to do, and worst… what to wear!!.

That Sunday we took the tram and we went to the city center. We had a great surprise when we discovered that the stores were open!!! :D It was our chance to buy summer clothes, and we did not lose it ;).

So… Coming back to the debate… On the one hand, opening the stores on Sunday, benefits people who have no time to go shopping during the week, and, personally, it is useful when you run out of a needed product like toilet paper, water, oil… Also, it helps consumption. Opening the malls and stores on Sundays, could increase people´s consumption and allow companies to earn more benefits at the end of the month/year.

On the other hand, it is prejudicial for the employees, because Sundays turn into a labor day, which give them less free time (this is the most popular point of view in Spain).

But a part from the debate, I would like to say that I thank the people who work on Sunday, because my Erasmus would not have been the same without going to buy food to Stockman, to do shopping to Kaubamaja, to buy ice-cream to Solaris or to drink a coffee in Viru Keskus.

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