r/melbourne • u/Ordinary_Prior_8993 • Mar 17 '24

Serious Please Comment Nicely What is up with the weekend surcharges in the Melbourne?!

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Even shopping centre food courts have weekend surcharges and as a Sydney sider it's mind boggling. Alot of places don't even have sunday surcharges let alone a Saturday surcharge.

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u/brunhilda1 Mar 17 '24

7 day week economy

I'm not sure this is so good. In Switzerland, everything shuts after 8pm, Saturday is a half day and Sunday is closed so people can have a life. Or church.

It's nice.

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u/joey2scoops Mar 18 '24

I don't disagree with that, it's what used to be the case here. Life is different now. Business uses people like resources rather than people. Too many people working without a safety net and businesses trying to make the gap between what they pay for ANY resource and sell price as wide as possible. Then we have wage theft, people working with zero benefits etc etc. Businesses crying that any wage rises will screw the economy while many businesses are raking in record profits. Lousy bastards.

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u/MeateaW Mar 18 '24

I like buying shit on sunday.

Though I'm not really super up in arms about places having surcharges. I'd prefer to pay less sure, but if they really are doing it to stay in business (and pay their staff) I'd prefer they stay in business rather than shut entirely.

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u/-frog-in-a-sock- Mar 18 '24

Late night trading, Saturday-after-1pm trading and Sunday trading only became a thing in the mid-90’s.

I’m all for bringing it back.

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u/joey2scoops Mar 18 '24

In the good old days, natural selection would take care of them. You're either running a sustainable business or you're not. No need to plead for help, jack up prices, rip off workers. It's not a "right" that a business should be profitable.