Suburban Adelaide stores have opened their doors for Boxing Day sales for the first time this morning.
And in the city, sales have started at 9:00am for the first time instead of the usual 11:00am on public holidays. The State Government granted a special exemption in November for shops throughout the suburbs despite Parliament blocking its attempt to deregulate trading hours as the Liberal Party promised in the March state election.
"They've sneakily used a backdoor way to provide an exemption that will allow big stores, big chains, international retailers to open today when it's usually only small, locally owned businesses," Mr Maher said.
Shop trading hours are deregulated in country South Australia, apart from in Millicent and several smaller towns.
Boxing Day sales have been held in the Adelaide CBD since 2012.
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