Posted on 11/19/2005 12:56:05 PM PST by sarkozy
Attorney general shuts down Whole Foods holiday opening November 19, 2005
BOSTON --An attempt by the Whole Foods supermarket chain to defy the state's centuries-old "blue laws" and open on Thanksgiving has been shut down by the state attorney general, who told the upscale chain to stay closed for the holiday or risk criminal charges. The office of Attorney General Thomas Reilly issued a legal opinion after officials at a Whole Foods competitor, Shaw's Supermarkets, wrote him a letter asking him to block the opening, The Boston Globe reported.
David Lannon, president of Whole Foods Market's North Atlantic Region, said the chain has scrapped the Thanksgiving openings at its 14 state stores.
"We're not going to break the law, he said. "If the blue law says we'll have to be closed, we have to be closed."
Many of the state's Puritan-era blue laws, passed in the 1600s to keep colonists at home or in church on Sundays, have been repealed, such as a ban of liquor sales on Sundays. But one that remains in effect requires all stores, except convenience stores and gas stations, to close on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day.
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Happy Thanksgiving.
Evildoers ping.
;OP
Like hell, n00b.
Really? Are the hours of sale the same as other days of the week? Or is it only a partial lifting of the ban?
Define "spaces".....NOT PUBLIC SPACES! Oh, my....that could INJURE someone for life!
I love this part:
WF's comopetitor said "Besides disadvantaging competitors, a Whole Foods opening would harm consumers, due to lack of choice in the marketplace for consumers to shop and compare prices for the best deal."
So according to them, No Choice is better than a Limited Choice?
Somethin' neat, that I try to do, and many others here do, is actually read an article before we post it. The MA AG is telling Whole Foods to stay closed on THANKSGIVING, not CHRISTMAS.
Owl_Eagle
"You know, I'm going to start thanking
the woman who cleans the restroom in
the building I work in. I'm going to start
thinking of her as a human being"
Mod, check this guy's history.
Since when are Thanksgiving and New Years 'religious' holidays ?
What's the penalty? Stocks or the dunking chair?
Moronic Massachusetts keeps re-electing Kennedy and Kerry, promotes gay and lesbian "marriages", but thinks it's evil to sell groceries on Thanksgiving. The lunatics are alive and well in Baahstin.
Folks in Massachusetts really enjoy the POP displays of 'Bitch' magazine at the registers...shame they'll have to 'go without' on Thanksgiving Day.
""We're not going to break the law, he said. "If the blue law says we'll have to be closed, we have to be closed.""
I'm a Christian. And I'm law abiding. But the law should not be about enforcing Christian rules... I feel the same about liquor sales on Sunday, limits on cursing and a bunch of other blue laws.
I remember in 1982 or 1983 when I was co-opping in Greenville South Carolina and the local Kroger was raided and the manager and teenage checkout girl arrested. Their crime - she had sold an undercover officer a quart of motor oil on Sunday and the manager was also responsible under the law.
You've got to be kidding me
What do these people do when they forget something important for dinner and have to run to the store real quick?
Sniff... sniff... phew.
They throw them in a pond. If they surface they were guilty, but if they don't they were innocent.
"Many of the state's Puritan-era blue laws, passed in the 1600s to keep colonists at home or in church on Sundays, have been repealed, such as a ban of liquor sales on Sundays. But one that remains in effect requires all stores, except convenience stores and gas stations, to close on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day."
Presently, the AG is demanding TG closing, but it will obviously be followed by Christmans and New Years day closing also.
Dont shoot the messenger. Indignant arguing in this forum wont change anything. Contact a Massachusetts senator or representative. That is the only way to change the outdated laws to prevent this sort of nonsense in the future.
Christmans=Christmas
Why not? This tyrannical *ssh*le banned the sale of all new handguns as "defective consumer products."
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