We grew up with stores closing on Sunday. Didn’t hurt us OR them a bit. People KNEW they were closed and so they got what they needed to have for their weekends. No big deal.
Sure. We had the old “Blue Laws” which closed any store other than food, gas, etc., stores on Sunday’s. A Walmart, K-Mart, Sears, the mall, etc. could not be open today under those laws back then. We still had them here in Alabama in the 1960s. Sunday, you could forget it going shopping. Not today. When I was in the Army in Germany, the German stores were all closed on Saturday and Sundays, except one half-day on Saturday once a month. They were never open on the weekends. That was still for people’s family time. Not work.
I grew up in small town U.S.A., everything closed on Sunday. If you absolutely had to have a prescription filled on Sunday, you called the pharmacist/owner of the drug store, he would go to the store, fill your prescription, bring it to your house and put it on your bill if you asked him to, if he timed the delivery right he might stay for dinner too.
The doctor in the town delivered me and three of my brothers and sisters at home. My older brother, born in 1937 cost $30, I have the receipt for that one.