Re: Batch of Mirepoix

On 2/19/2025 1:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

We were not allowed to work on Sundays, and my parents were not religious. Sunday was usually spent visiting my grandparents or aunts and uncles. Occasionally we would drive to my father's home town about 40 miles away.
 I don't remember exactly when we started opening. It was a hot issue. We live close to the US border and NY allowed Sunday opening so people from southern Ontario were flocking over the border to shop.  There were definitely better prices and selection over there and the exchange rate was low. Retailers complained that they were losing too much business to the Americans so the allowed Sunday shopping. Stores and malls are pretty busy on Sundays. It's all the people who would have come in the middle of the week so there is basically the same costs for staff and utilities each day for seven days to generate the same sales they used to get in 6.
 

When I lived in Philadelphia, it was just a couple of miles to the bridge to New Jersey. Sunday was very busy at the Pennsaulken Mart just the other side.  You could buy liquor too!