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It’s not really a fail … they’re open 24 hours from Monday through Friday. The weekend isn’t 24 hours.
It would only be a fail if they claimed to be 24/7.
Fail on rey_jay, not the store …
Absolutely right.
However, there might be a copyright fail considering they’re using a Registered Trademark of the Walmart corporation “Always” on their sign.
HMMM lol
Walmart own Asda. Which is why they use some of the same trademarked stuff.
That is a great name!
Keep reading, it’s a subsidiary of Walmart.
that… explains so much…
This company is called Asda and is owned by Walmart
it says they are open til 10….. my asda is exactly the same open 24 hours… until 10pm lol
I dont get how this is a fail,it is open 24 hours a day from monday at 8am continuously until saturday at 10 pm and then is open on sunday only from 10-4 due to sunday trading laws.
All ’24′ hour supermarkets in the uk work like this
so really they’re open 24 hours (i.e. the entirety of) tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and friday…
but open less than 24 hours on saturday, sunday, monday.
i think they could have found a better way to explain this.
Seems like it was a rather effective way to me. You got it, which kinda sets the gold standard.
yeah but i really had to think about it…
Oh noes! My brain has asplode!
Are you american by chance?
That would explain your inability to understand this with ease…
Being American has nothing to do with it. Some people just can’t read.
Us British maybe dumb, but we know what this means.
Scotland has different laws to Englandshire. Supermarkets are open 24/7 on the right side of the border
Yeah, I’m in England but Scotland has always had much more sensible Sunday trading and licensing laws. Hmmm, and better health and education policies. Can we shift parliament to Edinburgh?
Too bad the Scottish parliament building is hella ugly. It doesn’t fit in at all with the splendor of Holyroodhouse or the starkness of Arthur’s Seat.
Yeah! And don’t forget that Scotland leads the way in dental caries and deaths from heart disease. Donald where’s your bypass?
Give him a chance to finish his munchie box.
Fruit pudding, deep fried Mars bar, bottle of Buckfast – breakfast of champions!
Shops can be open before 1 on Sundays in England too, if they’re small enough. The law is designed to prevent big supermarkets from destroying the livelyhood of small corner shops. I guess Scotland doesn’t care about the little guy. Congrats.
Thinking that giving all your money to the big multinational supermarkets that take your money out of the country is better than giving it to the local shops is exactly the kind of thinking that means Scotland is better off not having their own government
I used to live on the Isle of Lewis, and not only were the shops not open AT ALL on Sundays, they even chained the swings together in parks to prevent people using them on “the Lord’s day”.
So most of Scotland might have better laws, but the very religious parts of the highlands and islands are still throwbacks to the middle ages.
What the….?
That “Always” looks suspiciously like the font Walmart uses for their “always”.
That’s because it’s Asda, which is (now) the wholly-owned UK subsidiary of Wal-Mart.
I suppose this would be proof that “branding” works then!
FAIL FAIL.
The sign says “open 24 hours!”
“Not in a row”
(Steven Wright)
My thought exactly.
That’s what I thought, too.
Oh good, someone did say it.
Supermarkets in the UK aren’t allowed to open all day Sunday, so they’re open almost all the hours they’re allowed. (Strictly speaking they could stay open until midnight on Saturday night and re-open at midnight on Monday morning, but no more than 6 hours in total on Sunday)
does said law have anything to do with whether the store in question sells alcohol?
Nope, it’s any retail store in the UK. None of them can open for more than six hours on a Sunday. Absolute nightmare for shopping centres.
depending on teh size of the shop – if it’s less than a certain amount (my mind says 10,000 square feet but that seems ridiculously huge) it can stay open longer on sundays.
otherwise the co-op and some premiers are massively flouting trading laws across the country, and i doubt that.
it’s 24 hours in the week, not 24/7.
It’s 280 sq m or ~3000 sq ft.
Companies like Tesco and Sainsbury are very careful that the floor space of their ‘Local’ stores are fractionally less than this.
3000 square feet is correct. I used to have to explain this to customers time and again when I worked at Next.
Licensing laws are even more restrictive, although they’ve been relaxed recently. Even in 24 hour stores, after 11pm the alcohol aisles are cordoned off and the shop won’t sell you alcohol until the next day (and I don’t just mean wait an hour until midnight! I think it’s 9am).
That depends on the precise details of the store’s alcohol licence. IIRC Tesco applied for a licence to sell alcohol 24hrs in all their stores.
There is nothing in the licensing laws preventing such a licence being approved.
I believe part of the UK Sunday trading law means you have to close at 10pm on a Saturday and can’t open before 6am on Monday, not midnight.
Shops in Scotland can be open 24hrs on Sundays. My local Asda is 24/7 and only closes on holidays like Xmas, Hogmanay and for odd things like when they were redoing George one night for a few hours.
They can be in England too, if they’re small enough. The law is designed to prevent big supermarkets from destroying the livelyhood of small corner shops. I guess Scotland doesn’t care about the little guy. Congrats.
Indeed, they are the same hours the local Tesco is open here.
I had to take a second look the first time I saw such a timetable too… since you automatically read it as the more common “Mon-Sat: 8am-10pm”, meaning it’s open for those 14 hours on each day… but it’s actually “Mon 8am – Sat 10pm”, meaning it’s open for a continuous 134 hours over the course of those 6 days.
Understanding clocks FAIL, the sign is fine.
open 24 hours … but not all in a row!
But what if I REEEEEEEEEALLY have to drop a deuce on Sat at 11pm and I stopped there, counting on their bathroom to be available?
Then stop at the fuel station instead. Or a nearby pub.
why would you need to drop a deuce so desperatly that you’d stumble there at 11pm on a saturday? besides, experience has taught me that they close the toilets before they shut the store – the place is open right through, but the lavs get shut at 8pm.
The loos at my local 24hr Tesco are open right through the store opening hours. Same at my non-24hr Sainsbury.
this is so british! open 24hrs but not on the weekends! just like mcdonalds in Germany 23hrs opening time.
Nothing wrong with this. However, a small convenience store near me has a sign in the window that says “Open 24 Hours – Closed 4-6am for restocking”. I’ll try and submit a picture. (It’s rarely open before 8am anyway!)
this was probably taken by an american visiting britain.
this isn’t really a fail at all, if it said “open 24/7″ then yes that would be fail
this is just stating that during the week they are open 24 hours, when bible bashers outdated trade laws don’t exist
London, Old Kent Road Asda.. Isnt it??
Nope. It’s the Asda in Havant, Hampshire. The roundabout is deadly…. they’ve stuck a sign on the white and black arrows saying “Slow Down” on the opposite side from where this picture was taken. It does nothing.
Always Happy to help…
Monday to Friday 8.30am – 8.00pm
We have a local grocery store that does the same thing…they’re open 24 hours, but close at 10 pm Sunday, and reopen Monday at 7 am.
NOT a fail. it says it’s open 24 hours. not 24/7
Most stores have an alcohol licence that permits the sale of alcoholic beverages 24/7 (except for oddities like Christmas Day).
Mostly though, large stores (food/other retail) in England and Wales (trading laws are different in Scotland and Northern Ireland) are open for 6 hours on Sundays. For some reason it seems to have standardised on 10am to 4pm, although there is nothing in the law that says the 6 hours have to be those specifically.
There’s nothing wrong with this. All England 24 hour supermarkets have signs like (or at least very similar) to this due to Sunday trading laws in this country.
This isn’t a fail, British law is that they have to have limited hours on a Sunday. It is 24 hours, just not 24/7.
Good old Asda, they do amazing fresh baked things lol x
My local asda and every asda i’ve been 2 has this sign, i’m bored of seeing this lol practically every day!
Failing to understand 24-hour opening laws fail.
No, that’s not a double negative.