Two New Jersey Apple Stores to open for non-retail activity on Sundays

The last time that there was a push to eliminate the blue laws it was apparent that is was only the shoppers that really wanted it. For the most part the retailers were happy to have 7 days of sales with only 6 days of overhead.
Surely some business leaks to other counties, but overall it doesn't seem to be hurting - that Rt17/R4 complex is really just a huge crowded mall. But, if you want it, they have it !

So if this law isn't for religion and it's for traffic reduction for local residents then where are the local residents going on Sundays if everything is closed? A restaurant... possibly, but wouldn't it be better to stay home to have a healthy home cooked meal and to save money for a Mac.

Dear God, may he/she help you if you need something because you'll have to drive out of town into another city where the traffic congestion has been diverted just to get what you need while putting money into another community that'll use the money towards better traffic design. Either that or you can stay in your city with traffic-free Sundays and 6 unoptimized traffic day.

Apple's solution is to not accept cash sales on Sunday. Direct them to any of the demonstration systems in the store, and have them purchase the goods for "store pickup". Then listen for the printer or a Genius bar staffer calling their order number/name out. Then they pick up the order that was paid for in California.

TheCastro. The debt involved was forced upon the colonials without their permission by the crown, not entered into voluntarily, and unlike other English lands the American colonies could not purchase a large number of goods except through England, thus assuring the debt to the fatherland. This was found to be as objectionable a mandate as forcing a current US citizen to purchase a particular limited set of products from a restricted and regulated set of suppliers. Except in the 1700's only about 10 percent objected vocally. Now 60-70 percent do.

For any shoppers who get "frustrated" at being unable to purchase, the Apple Stores should have handouts listing the names & phone #'s of the local politicians who refuse to rescind the laws. :-)

So instead of repealing a stupid law and building better roads or sorting better traffic patterns we keep this law on the books due to what? Laziness?

The Woodcliff Lake location is an "outdoor" mall, so shoppers have direct access to the Apple Store. The Paramus location is located within the Garden State Plaza Mall, and as such only has service corridor access directly to the outside world. In other words, Apple Paramus will require customers enter a closed mall to get to the store. The only precedent for this at the mall is the movie theater at the opposite end of the mall. Movie patrons are not permitted to walk through the mall on Sundays...barriers are put in place to prevent that.

Perhaps Apple Paramus will redesign their service corridor to act as an official outside entrance.

These laws will be the death of us.

Well they can place orders online and do store pick up right.

I just want to echo @Felgerkarb's comment that this law is not strictly for religious reasons.

We residents of Bergen County are flooded with shoppers from the tri-state area six days of the week. The 07652 zip code (Paramus) has the most retail sales per year out of all the zip codes in the nation. (Plus no tax on clothes and shoes and gone to the world's third largest Ikea.) So one day off a week for us residents to have the roads to ourselves is a relief.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramus%2C_New_Jersey?wasRedirected=true

I wonder what the laws say about people purchasing products online and picking them up in the store on a Sunday.

If that were the case, could they walk into an Apple store, use the computers there to purchase the product, and be handed the purchased item on the spot?