Being married to an American, I get the "stupid Sunday trading laws" rant at least once a month. Really, we should've taken the Scottish view: "Look, nae person's gonnae open up on Sunday, sae why should we hae' laws fae it?" But no. Mind you, this is the country that kept its emergency licensing laws introduced during The Great War (to prevent munitions workers from getting drunk instead of making shells) for 65 years, and then proceeded to relax them only slightly for another 20 after that.