France's would be happy shoppers
Ifop has polled the French on the prospects for Sunday shop opening, and in what was doubtless a staggering waste of time, I have mapped the geographical findings:
Black is the Paris region - >70% wanting Sunday opening
Charcoal grey - Languedoc, Provences Alpes Cote d'Azur,Champagne, Picardie, Bourgogne >60%
Mid-grey - Normandy, Nord-Pas de Calais, Centre >50%
Light grey - Aquitaine, Limousin, Midi-Pyrenees, Auvergne, Rhone-Alpes >40%
White - Brittany, Pays de Loire, Poitou Charentes, Franche Comte,Elsass Lothringen Alsace Lorraine <40%
There is a fairly poor correlation with 2007 voting, where the Socialists fared best in the north west, south west and west centre. I cannot lay hands on a map of church attendance, which is annoying.
Black is the Paris region - >70% wanting Sunday openingCharcoal grey - Languedoc, Provences Alpes Cote d'Azur,Champagne, Picardie, Bourgogne >60%
Mid-grey - Normandy, Nord-Pas de Calais, Centre >50%
Light grey - Aquitaine, Limousin, Midi-Pyrenees, Auvergne, Rhone-Alpes >40%
White - Brittany, Pays de Loire, Poitou Charentes, Franche Comte,
There is a fairly poor correlation with 2007 voting, where the Socialists fared best in the north west, south west and west centre. I cannot lay hands on a map of church attendance, which is annoying.
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I want Sunday opening in France! On my last but one wine trip we left the actual wine buying till Sunday afternoon - stupidly assuming that *supermarkets* would open! Aaaaaaaargh.
We had to make do with that awful shop in the tunnel terminal.
Yup, they ought to ask us. My favourite French retail anecdote involves a shop called Huit a Huit which shuts for two hours at lunchtime.
I'm a big fan of HaH - I suppose "huit a midi, deux a huit" would be quite a lot of extra signage.
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