Stephen Mayne

I think it's fair to say that in hospitality where you have an option of opening or not on a Sunday, they do seem to be becoming more common.

But with Coles and Woolies and Bunnings, well, look, it's universal pricing and they've just got to ride the bumps of Sundays being less profitable than Mondays because they've got to pay double time.

But I can't see – I mean, you can't ban it, can you?

I mean, businesses are allowed to put a surcharge on for coffee because you're paying your baristas double time?

People are calling things all sorts of surcharges, you know, credit card surcharge, fuel surcharge, weekend surcharge, penalty surcharge.

I mean, you can come up with anything.

Well, this is dynamic pricing, isn't it?

I think dynamic pricing is evil.

I mean, you've got big blockbuster AFL games now.

You've got to pay far more than a standard seat because they're dynamically pushing the pricing up when demand is strong.

I think dynamic pricing is far worse than weekend surcharges or fuel surcharges.

It just got me thinking with this.

With libraries, so council, I used to be on council.

I was on the library board.

We had eight councils, Joint Venture with Whitehorse.

We never used to open on a Sunday, Alan.

Well, most of our libraries were not open on a Sunday because the union has never, ever agreed to anything but double time on a Sunday.

So council-owned libraries respond by not opening on a Sunday because it's too expensive.

So maybe we should charge a surcharge and have an entry fee into the library so people who want to use the library on a Sunday can help pay for the double time.

But I think it's a joke.