Is August 25th a trading Sunday? Will stores and malls be open?

Will the stores and malls be open next Sunday?

The last Sunday of the summer holidays is a legal trading Sunday. This is stated in Art. 7 of the Act of 10 January 2018 on restrictions trading on Sundays and holidays and on some other days. According to its content, legal restrictions do not apply, among others: on the last Sunday of January, April, June and August. Sunday, August 25, 2024, was mentioned in the above article, so the trading ban will not apply to it. On this Sunday, shopping malls will remain open. It’s already five o’clock shopping sunday 2024

Shopping Sundays 2024 – seven additional shopping days

Under current legislation, trading will be permitted only on seven Sundays in 2024. The provisions of the aforementioned law indicate that the ban on Sunday trading will not apply to:

• on the next two Sundays before the first day of Christmas,

• Sunday immediately preceding the first day of Easter,

• last Sunday of January, April, June and August.

Will there still be shopping Sundays in 2024?

Next Sunday, August 25, 2024, will be the fifth commercial Sunday of this year. If the regulations don’t change in the fall, then next fall shopping sunday we will have to wait a long time.The legislature has planned just two more this year.Sundays are exempt from the legal ban on trading. However, they will only be available in December. There are two consecutive Sundays before the first day of Christmas. They will fall on December 15 and 22, 2024.

When are shopping Sundays in 2024?

In 2024, trading Sundays occur on the following dates:

• January 28,

• March 24,

• April 28,

• June 30,

• August 25,

• December 15,

• December 22.

Will shopping Sundays return?

The return of Sunday business hours depends on the final outcome of the ongoing legislative work. The draft amendment to the Restriction Act prepared by Polish MP Szymon Hołownia from 2050 is stuck in the Sejm and the deputies will not meet until mid-September. The next deliberations on Wiejska Street are scheduled for 11-13 September 2024. However, it is not known whether the plan for the first post-holiday deliberations will include work on this amendment. The said draft amendment presupposes significant changes, the most important of which concern:increasing the number of trading Sundays to two per month. The restrictions would not apply on the first and third Sunday of each month.