Comment on Discussion Thread 👽 Monday 10 November 2025
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 weeks agoDid mine at the Box Hill copshop - on the Saturday morning before Christmas in 1975. Yes, the traffic was chaos and I’m sure the copper took this into account cos I got it on the first try. In those days, all the shops shut down at 12 noon on Saturday so there was something of a gadarene swine vibe about the whole of Box Hill Shopping centre that day.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m old enough to remember when the shops shut at noon. My mum yelling at me to hurry up or "there’ll be no bread left on the shelves at Safeway’.
Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Those were the days. Glad they’re gone too.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
we have more equality and rights 👍
but our wages have gone to shit because of the destruction of unions
Seagoon_@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
Closed at noon on Saturday , closed all Sunday. Some were even closed for lunch.
Food was wrapped in foil or wax paper.
And I remember when most supermarkets were small independent grocers, there was not the duopoly there is today.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone 2 weeks ago
And when they did start opening, the Supermarkets were not allowed to sell meat or hardware items on the weekend, so they would empty the meat fridges and close off some of the shelves. I have no idea how mum managed to do the shopping once she went back to work full time.
The trading time restrictions also varied by area, when I was in Warnambool in the '90s there was only very limited Sunday trading, but it had been normal for years in Melbourne.