It’s about time!
WA customers will get a further 4 hours to do their procuring on upcoming Monday public holidays.
The upcoming holidays — Labour Day, Easter Monday, WA Day, and the newly named King’s Birthday — will all obtain the brand new metropolitan space buying and selling hours of 8am to 6pm, changing the outdated hours of 11am to 5pm.
Shoppers will have the ability to take pleasure in these prolonged hours for the primary time on Labour Day on March 6.
The new hours imply that store house owners can have the pliability to decide on what hours they open between 8am and 6pm, as a substitute of being pressured into the beforehand rigid six hours of buying and selling.
However, the change doesn’t apply to Good Friday, Anzac Day or Christmas Day — the place no buying and selling will probably be allowed.
The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety mentioned retail hours offered a time when retailers in WA may very well be open for business.
“Businesses can dictate what hours they open between the allocated open and close times,” they mentioned.
“There will continue to be extraordinary instances where extended hours will apply, like over the Christmas period leading up to Christmas Day.”
Non-metropolitan buying and selling hours will stay as per standard — 8am to 6pm Monday to Wednesday and Friday, 8am to 9pm Thursday, 8am to 5pm on Saturday and closed on Sundays and public holidays.
Local governments exterior the metropolitan space can apply to Consumer Protection for prolonged retail buying and selling hours.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
