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'Saturday shopping – it costs more than you think,' 1980

This 1980 pamphlet was produced by the Shop Employees Union to oppose the re-introduction of Saturday shopping. The union feared that Saturday shopping would force shop employees, and eventually many other workers, to give up their weekends.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: Eph-B-RETAIL-1980-01

Courtesy of First Union

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Peter Clayworth, Weekends – The modern weekend, 1980 to the 2000s, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/interactive/39795/saturday-shopping-it-costs-more-than-you-think-1980 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Peter Clayworth, published 30 November 2012.