The Easter break has seen the traditional call for a relaxing of retail laws.
And apparently it's not even needed - the law turns a blind eye to such transacting in Wanaka, so why bother with the legal niceties? It's been reported traders in that tourist town were told inspectors would not be visiting this year.
Labour has argued some MP needs to be brave enough to bring a bill to the House which does away with our shopping-free public holidays. All three-and-a-half of them.
And though what they advocated was a ploy, let's not go there.
Most people can survive a couple of days without shopping. There didn't seem to be a great queue of people in the supermarket on Thursday frantically buying supplies like it was a day-long armageddon.