I WANT TO BUY SOME FOOD!!!!!!!!
 

This 3rd world, 1920's country occasionally manages to completely P me off...

Its Easter, a religous holiday I suspect is actually noted by a minority of people in this country, yet for some reason the following laws seem to exist in this backwater:

1) I cannot buy alcohol offsales on Good Friday or Easter Sunday, why???
2) Some bloke in Franz Josef had a go at me for eating meat on good Friday, saying its not allowed as I tucked into my ham sandwich, well let me tell you I had the mixed grill in the pub that evening...
3) When you DO go out to buy drinks/food they charge you 15% extra, why, what on earth is that about, its robbery by the government, its a public holiday, of course people will go out and eat and drink!?!?!?
4) Supermarkets are closed on Easter Sunday, why, what do they think will happen if they open places yo ucan actually go buy food to avoid the 15% tax?? I'm just off a flight, been away since start of the week, I need to buy something for dinner but can't!!!
5) YET, while I can't go to the supermarket, I can go to a Dairy (who are all sold out of everything you might actually want!!) or Starbucks, KFC or MacDonalds, how, what is the loophole that these places can trade but nowhere else can??? :blink::confused:

I am very very very annoyed right now, stupid stupid stupid laws in this place... :curse:

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:shrug:

And yet people (including me) come to live here to get away from the 24/7 consumer rat race culture. I remember visiting small towns in 2000 and finding shops had shut lunchtime on Saturday, not to reopen until Monday. I thought it rather refreshing.

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Aye, bloody refreshing when you have an empty fridge and are considering going to Mac-bloody-Donalds for dinner... :curse::thumbdown:

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Strewth mate, think of all those poor people around the world who would walk through fire for a meal at the golden arches tonight. You ought to be ashamed of yourself:rofl:

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Well they can go to MacDonalds if they want to, or bleeding Subway, but I'd rather not, how come fast food places are allowed to open today but not a supermarket??? :confused:

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TINZ mate. Strange 'though, thought this was an agnostic country:confused:

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You live in Wellington; I seriously doubt that's your only choice ...


Quote from http://www.stuff.co.nz/4447465a11.html that I heartily agree with. I'm sorry if you've nothing for tea, but that seems rather bad planning on your part than bad legislation on NZ's part.

Hear hear!

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I'm not remotely religous but Easter is a public holiday and we like to scoff chocolate and head to the beach along with every other family, same way that at Christmas we do a big family few days complete with tree and gifts, family and food. I was really sad to find Tesco express open in my town on Christmas day. Can't people manage without shopping for 1 day???

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Great, I've been touring down south for a week, pouring my cash into this countries coffers, and I cant even manage to buy a loaf of ******* bread on some antiquated mumbo jumbo religious holiday, yeah, well if they told you the shops would be shut when I got my visa I might have been able to ******* well plan for it...and am sure a number of shop workers would be happy to work today as they would probably get paid double time for it...

Still fails to answer the question, which goes AGAINST what that statement by some trade union flunky says, that how come MacDonalds et al are allowed to trade all day? :confused:

OR why they charge 15% tariff for restaurants and the like on public holidays, what a rip off...

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So people like you don't starve:thumbup:

and some subway stuff is really rather good.

Now where did i put my salmon salad and glass of wine......

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[QUOTE=irnbru14;6098956]This 3rd world, 1920's country occasionally manages to completely P me off...
4) Supermarkets are closed on Easter Sunday, why, what do they think will happen if they open places yo ucan actually go buy food to avoid the 15% tax?? I'm just off a flight, been away since start of the week, I need to buy something for dinner but can't!!!


Get over it, some people in retail would like to have time off with their families too!!!!!!! Do you think people in retail have a choice whether they work stat days or not?
They don't !! If the shop is open it means some-one has to work! So please be respective of us and let us have time off like yourselves...those people who think they are above are above retail workers!!

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[QUOTE=jueinnz;6099133]Yes they do, cos I used to be one of them. :thumbup:

Unless here is different to the UK, always used to get asked if you wanted to work the holidays (double time usually) and they were fairly fair on splitting them up between everyone...

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Oh yeah, NZ owes you because you've spent some cash as a tourist :blink: . WTF?

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Well done, you are obviously a better person than me then, have a gold star or something... :rofl:

Is it really that hard to understand why I may be a bit dazed and confused about this? Have spent a great week with my first batch of friends over from the UK, touring, showing them how lovely and great a place this is to be, and I get home and cant even manage a simple thing like getting some food from a supermarket because its Easter?!?!

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It's been the same in the UK for years so they should be used to it.;)