Comment on Who really benefits from Poland’s Sunday shopping ban? by Semiotic Animal

['Rev. Ben Johnson', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow', 'Class', 'Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus', 'Display Inline', '.Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar', 'Where Img', 'Height Auto Max-Width', 'Vertical-Align Bottom .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Coauthors.Is-Layout-Flow .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar', 'Vertical-Align Middle .Wp-Block-Co-Authors-Plus-Avatar Is .Alignleft .Alignright'] Comments for Religion & Liberty Online 2017-12-12 18:22:19

Poland may soon ban shopping on Sundays. On Friday, November 24, the lower house of the Polish legislature (the Sejm) approved a Sunday shopping ban, 254-156. It’s true that Poland’s Catholic Bishops Conference lobbied hard for the measure, which would gradually phase out Sunday shopping by 2020. “In its current iteration, the bill allows more than 30 exceptions, mostly discriminating against large shopping centers,” writes Pisarski in a new essay for Acton’s Religion & Liberty Transatlantic website. Meanwhile in Poland, the owners of stores not included in the commerce ban are gearing up to reap windfall profits.