More on the Thanksgiving Blue Laws


What really sparked the investigation?

Here is the AP's coverage and here is the Boston Globe's story. Most of it is things we already knew from the first article, but I found this paragraph from the Boston Globe interesting.

Reilly issued his warnings after Whole Foods, the health-oriented supermarket chain, had announced plans to keep its 14 Massachusetts stores open for Thanksgiving to provide customers a chance to buy the fresh organic turkeys. But when officials from its competitor, Shaw's Supermarket, learned of the plans, they wrote a letter to Reilly citing the state's Colonial-era blue laws and asking him to block the Thanksgiving openings.

So basically a competitor complains, and a religious based law is invoked.

— NeoWayland

Posted: Sun - November 27, 2005 at 05:05 AM  Tag


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