So i had a couple friends coming by on sunday and we decided to go do some last minute shopping. We went to the westfield garden state mall and it was a ghost town, all stores were closed. Couldnt figure out what the hell happened, we headed to bergen town center a few blocks away And this is a few days before xmas - the busiest shopping time for the whole year.
Looking at the hours posted on the doors, apparently it's not just this sunday - that every sunday all stores are closed? What is wrong with paramus? We left dumbfounded. Bergen County, New Jersey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Not to mention all the threads on CityData about the subject.
This effects all of Bergen County and despite the law and subsequent closing of retail stores on Sunday it remains one of the most desirable places to both live and shop in the entire country.
The general consensus among residents who have voted down changing the law over a dozen times is that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Its called blue laws. It's not just the malls.. It's the same county where Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield operates Garden State Plaza, one of the nation's top-performing malls. Yep, all closed on Sunday. The history of the blue laws dates back nearly 2, years, when Roman Emperor Constantine in A.
Until the s, blue laws prohibiting the sale of clothes, home goods, appliances and other goods were much more common nationwide. The name "blue laws," according to historians , comes from the fact that the Puritans tended to write their laws on blue paper. New Jersey's blue laws, prohibiting work on Sundays, have been on the books since the s.
That wouldn't really start to reverse course until the s, when each New Jersey county was granted the right to decide on blue laws. Hudson County was the last one, outside of Bergen County, to repeal its blue laws, in the s. The decline in commercial blue laws nationwide can be partly attributed to the fact that big-box retailers like Walmart and Target were on the rise, and these chains didn't want to be closed on Sundays, according to Vicki Howard, author of "From Main Street to Mall: The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store.
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