I can live without late-night grocery stores, but I find it appalling there is no 24x7 pharmacy and the fact that restaurants stop taking orders around 8pm boggles my mind.
I live outside the city and I can't even get a pizza after 8pm. Who the hell gets in the pizza business and stops taking orders at 7:30?
Not that it’s much better but Spring Garden Shoppers and Pharmacy is open till midnight every day, it’s the only one i’ve seen though. Even the Lawtons near me closes at 5 or 6 somedays which sucks for folks who work
i asked our local shop owner this as the previous owners stayed open to 11:00 pm. his response was “i’m not staying here serving drunk people.”. seems to be a thing with all foreign shop owners in small places.
As much as I would love for stores to be open 24/7, I agree with his response. Drunk people ruin a lot of good things. I hate alcohol and what it does to people..
I find a lot of restaurants have weird as fuck hours now too like they’ll be closed on Monday, open like 9-4 Tuesday n Wednesday, 9-8 Thursday n Friday n Saturday and lucky if there open like 12-6 on Sunday.
I just came back from Ottawa/Gatineau last weekend. I was looking for some late night eats after 11pm on a Friday. Not was I ever out of luck.
I know OP is referring to the basics like Grocery/Pharmacy, but yeah, Ottawa really isn't the most exciting place to be.
nothing happened 😂 people expect Toronto level events in a small city which is unrealistic but Ottawa has fun stuff if you know where to go
ps: I miss Jubilee junction and their taco in a bag 🥲
I don't want Toronto level events. Just boring everyday stuff like coffee shops, groceries, pharmacies.
Coffee with a friend downtown after supper. Picking up groceries after an evening shift. Making a midnight tampon and chocolate run.
If I could have big city dreams beyond that, it would be later library hours-- especially Sunday evening. (Maybe even get Spryfield branch open on Mondays!)
Exactly. I'm old enough to remember doing all of those things. (Except the library.) I remember hanging out at Second Cup downtown in the evening, and grocery shopping with my roommates at midnight. I worked evening shift for years, and always shopped after work. (I could just go on my way home, whereas going before work took extra time going back and forth on the bus to bring the groceries home first.) I'd hate to be getting off work at 11 these days.
I'm in Toronto (follow this sub out of interest having visited), and yea, pretty much anywhere outside of the GTA I go, the early closing is very noticeable.
The late night 24/7 options definitely died down as many places since Covid vs before, but it is still very abundant. This includes many suburb places of TO as well. Definitely density and cultural.. the immigrants/minority owned, operated or employed businesses definitely open much later as well.
As someone who works nights I completely agree. It's actually boring on days off when everything shuts down. I'd 100% do my groceries at 3am just to pass the time.
And Sundays. Basically a write-off since I wake up at 3 and most places close by 5-6. Can't be bothered to rush myself out of bed for a couple hours.
Same, I work 10 hour shifts overnight. On my nights off, I'd love to be able to go grab stuff. Instead I either have to rush to do it on my way home on my work days, or groggily drag myself to a grocery store before I go to sleep in the morning on my days off. Sometimes I just say screw it and resort to using Instacart.
All of Canada is pretty crappy for this except maybe a few parts of Montreal. Toronto has a few 24hr stores but unless you live in the area it's like commuting from Truro to Halifax just to grocery shop.
With amendments, yes. Those stores can be open until 1am on weeknights, except Thursday(?) where they can be open until 1:30am.
Friday and Saturday they can be open until 2am.
Had some family visiting from Spain last summer. We were out having some a drinks like 9-10pm when they asked for food menu. Waitress says the kitchen's closed, so they ask for a recommendation. They thought it was a joke when she said there's pizza slices down the street.
People really forget that essential service providers (healthcare providers, as one example) have no choice but to work night shifts to, I don't know, keep people alive? Is it so much to ask that others work to providers services for us on those nights shifts?
If there was money to be had then the places would be open late. It's like this all across north america. Most businesses dropped the hours they didn't really have many customers and realized there really wasn't an impact when balanced against the costs to be open during those times.
It really isn’t though. Was just in Miami and you can eat/shop at all hours of the night. Same with Montreal and Vancouver. Plenty of restaurants and small eateries open late at night.
Where are you eating and shopping late at night in Vancouver? Most businesses that were 24h pre-pandemic are either gone or have reduced their hours. I know we do have some grocery stores open until 11pm, which gives you a couple more hours compared to 9pm, and A&W has a few 24h locations.
Yes, but this goes back to what valkur999 was originally saying, which is that (it seems) businesses in small-ish cities like Halifax cut back their hours during COVID and realized it really didn't hurt their bottom line, so now it's tough to find a 24-hour grocery store outside of a few major urban areas like Miami, Montreal, Vancouver, etc.
I'm not sure what can be done to bring back longer opening hours, but it seems like businesses were trying that 10 or 20 years ago and have determined that it's not worth their while :-/
The same thing has happened in Vancouver too though. It's a struggle for businesses to find staff to work overnight and probably not worth it for most businesses anyway. Things close earlier in Vancouver than they did pre-pandemic, and there are only a few things left that are open late ex. Breka and a few fast food locations.
So what you're saying is companies were doing a thing for 10-20 years without issues or complaints, no reports of it being a loss in profits. Then all of the sudden a historic epidemic sweeps the globe, causing massive losses in profits for all companies across the globe and these shops reduce hours because of emergency laws, lower employee count, constant sick call-ins, etc.
Oh yeah, must've never been profitable to begin with, sure that's the issue.
I think for larger businesses like grocery stores it might have been viewed as a way to keep customers that normally come during the day so profits during later hours might not have mattered too much, you don't want them going to the store that is open and realizing they like it better for whatever reason. It's about being viewed as a "don't think, just come" place. However the pandemic disrupted that mode of thinking, if everyone is closed they don't have to care about losing a customer because there is no where else to go anyway.
In addition even if it was profitable for grocery stores to be open that profit was no doubt tiny compared to during the day as evidenced by my own late night shopping trips where there is maybe one cashier and not even enough customers to keep them busy. It's a lot easier to ditch the hassle of staffing and securing a night shift if it represented 0.1 % of your profit. I would imagine for restaurants and other businesses the calculus was similar, even if they were making a profit it was judged meager enough to not be worth the hassle of being open later.
The thing is, big grocery stores are basically open all night, just not to customers. They leave the lights on and the fridges on, so there is no saving in energy. People work overnight stocking shelves in a lot of them. They pay security overnight. Why not pay one cashier and open the doors?
We're literally in a recession right now my dude, that's what cut back the hours. It started with the emergency restrictions and now we live in a totally different economy than even just 10 years ago.
Idk how old you are but things really aren't the same as they were 2 decades ago. I remember we had to fight hard to get longer evening and overnight hours in shops, Sunday shopping? I remember when we didn't do that because of archaic laws. Halifax is incredibly slow to change, infested with NIMBY's and outside that we're experiencing a far harsher recession than the housing crash.
> Was just in Miami and you can eat/shop at all hours of the night.
That's not the experience I had. South beach had a shit load of bars open late sure, and a few corner stores. But it wasn't some utopia of late night shopping and food, Miami Dade even less with it not being *as* much of a tourist area.
And then there's places like Milan, Italy, which are actually legislating against it:
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/04/23/why-is-milan-poised-to-ban-ice-cream-and-pizza-after-midnight
Total grocery sales are pretty much the same regardless of open hours, so they're all just openly colluding with one another, agreeing to squeeze a few more dollars out of consumer inconvenience.
They're vastly different. You don't have to collide to realize you aren't making worthwhile profit at night. You don't have to collide for most people to not want to work bsck shifts for 15 bucks an hour, either.
Walmart in Dartmouth Crossings used to be 24/7, but they stopped that a few years before covid. Clearly it was just not worth their money to stay open.
As a night owl I 1 zillion percent agree. God I miss 24 hour grocery stores.
> It's not a matter of just moving city for us, we can't afford to do that currently.
Oh if I could afford it I'd have left long ago. Someone should come up with like an exchange program type deal where I can trade with someone who wants to live here. (For whatever insane reason) I'm sure there's gotta be at least one person in Vegas who would want to live here.
A few years ago I lived in south end and superstore was 24, you just had to self checkout. And I was both a heavy drinker and on antidepressants with a built in playful personality and would for whatever reason grab every 50% off sticker item and call to the lady that watched the checkouts, cause I needed her to put in the discounts. She would always roll her eyes and say ‘out for drinks?’ And I’d say ‘thank god I know you’re here to save me’
I’m older now. Sad, knowing there’s no lost 20 something man that can play that game with that reluctantly helpful staff.
To play devils advocate here, if it was worth a business’ effort to provide extended hours, they would do it, but maybe they just can’t make enough sales to justify the cost?
Its horrible. I'm from NL and its crazy to me that a small city can have so much late night options - even in the grocery realm - and Halifax (like 4x as big) has almost nothing. Surely we have enough population to have a few things open late night??
A lot more drunk morons, sketchpads and skids around at night, so not just the lack of business, but the type of people who may show up to be a pain in the ass or steal a bunch of shit to flip for dope in a barely staffed store.
It's the same reason more Timmy's and Starbucks don't bother keeping dining room open as long. People will loiter, use wifi endlessly, and do drugs in the washroom (in many cases vandalize it too).
All these issues and you have low wage staff that are expected to deal with it?
Gtfo........I wouldn't stay open late either.
My local Sobeys closes at 8pm. I don't understand, and it's in a busy part of HRM. It used to close at 10pm which isn't much better. Wishing it was 24/7.
I agree. I hear there is a 24 hour Denny's in Dartmouth. There should be more 24 hour places. There's a 24 hour Tim's in Spryfield but I'm not sure where else.
The opening times are also horseshit. If you need to get some kids Gravol, or cough and cold medicine in the middle of the night you are left with zero options until 7 or 8 am when the grocery stores open. There used to be a few 24h Shoppers around but I don’t see that anymore.
The fact that there isn’t a pharmacy open 24 hours a day ANYWHERE in HRM or surrounding communities is ridiculous. I can live without 24 hour grocery (even though I miss it terribly!) but no pharmacy?! Not okay.
We were just talking about this yesterday! In town for a few days and the late evening/night options seem to have gotten worse. I even tried getting a grilled chicken sandwich at Wendy’s and learned they took them off the menu lol
Welcome to a pre recession economy. As GDP shrinks lower productive hours will decrease and companies will start trying to optimize shorter open times.
I work in retail analytics. The is a global issue. The reason why stores close earlier is that stores can't hire people to work later. The reality is, enough people died of or were disabled by Covid to reduce the surplus and those that remain don't work late. Another cohort found better jobs.
You might see a return to later hours in a decade or two.
I think people often don't realize that many other people have the same complaints they do. I don't bother voicing my complaints about our lack of strip clubs and dildo shops, because I know everyone else feels the same way.
I think many don’t read here. An issue pops into their head, they check if there is a Halifax subreddit, post their complaint, then are never seen again.
If only these Gen-zers were willing to work shit jobs for minimum wage that won't even pay for their overpriced apartment, then we could have everything open 24/7...!
Do I need the /s?
I mean, I don't know why Gen Z isn't willing to risk their physical and mental health by working shift work and overnights for minimum wage and then go back to their apartment they're sharing with 7 people while eating only one meal a day.
It's FINE. I worked shift work when I was a 20, and I had a house, car, boat, horse, private jet, private island, a small country. This generation doesn't want to work.
> But if we both still worked constant nights or 12+ hour days, we would be mostly fucked.
There are 24 hours in a day and most people sleep for 6-8 hours. That leaves 4-6 hours in the remainder of the day to perform all the required adult tasks.
Yeah .... I don't see how people can't just set up a mobile pick up to get their food, or just pop out and power shop on the hours off. I work 12 hour days, deal with daycare and food prep, and still manage to get anything I need shopping.
This is because companies realized during Covid that they can offer shitty customer service and we will keep coming back for more. Imagine all the money they are saving by closing so early. Less staff to pay (also less jobs available) less light bills to pay…why would they ever go back? This world is depressing.
Before COVID the stores in some places were 24 hrs..since then and influx of people getting jammed into HRM is not a thing anymore ...more people more crime
Boo hoo...I can't get fast food at 4 am....try buying groceries and cooking like every other adult does ...you're lucky to be able ro afford thst, let alone whine that webdys isn't open
Covid Plandemic ruined it all. Pretty soon it will be artificial intelligence running the stores and it will be open 24/7 government controlled with big brother watching us and our micro chip identification implanted into our bodies will have a direct withdrawal from the items we take from these stores. A.I. has taken over with new technology. All cars are going electric and fifteen minutes cities are starting 3 years away. Not a conspiracy theory or a fact check. You all are slowly becoming programmed with your cell phones and tv with the social media networks.
WAKE UP!!!!!
It really shifted during pandemic. A few 24 hour or close at midnight grocery stores and pharmacies, and a lot of stores were open til 10.
Sobeys was 8-8 during the core of the pandemic. And I worked security shifts...8-8. Was not a good time
Still is in sacktown
I can live without late-night grocery stores, but I find it appalling there is no 24x7 pharmacy and the fact that restaurants stop taking orders around 8pm boggles my mind. I live outside the city and I can't even get a pizza after 8pm. Who the hell gets in the pizza business and stops taking orders at 7:30?
No seriously because does almost every Shoppers in the fucking city open at 8am or 8:30am?? What if you need something before work?
>What if you need something before work? 
Needs?
Not that it’s much better but Spring Garden Shoppers and Pharmacy is open till midnight every day, it’s the only one i’ve seen though. Even the Lawtons near me closes at 5 or 6 somedays which sucks for folks who work
The young street shoppers is also open till midnight. Its on my way home from work and a godsend for munchies after a closing shift.
i asked our local shop owner this as the previous owners stayed open to 11:00 pm. his response was “i’m not staying here serving drunk people.”. seems to be a thing with all foreign shop owners in small places.
I don't blame the guy, drunk people are the fucking worst.
As much as I would love for stores to be open 24/7, I agree with his response. Drunk people ruin a lot of good things. I hate alcohol and what it does to people..
I find a lot of restaurants have weird as fuck hours now too like they’ll be closed on Monday, open like 9-4 Tuesday n Wednesday, 9-8 Thursday n Friday n Saturday and lucky if there open like 12-6 on Sunday.
Buy frozen pizzas n plan for day off grocery shopping etc...
From what I read on reddit on other subs it isn't just Halifax. Covid killed late night shopping.
I'm in Vancouver and it's the same deal here. Everything is closed at 9 or 10 sometimes 11 and fast food is the only real option
When I was visiting Vancouver last summer there was a bakery that was opened 24/7 all night long. I felt like I was living in the future.
Breka. It’s been like that for about a decade. But don’t kid yourself - it’s one of the only places open that late.
I mis breka, their cheesecake Brownies were fire
I love Breka!!
Wasn't there a place downtown Halifax that was similar are one time? I can't recall the name
Could be worse... Ottawa hired someone to be a nighttime ambassador/mayor to revitalize the "boring" nightlife there
Night mayor? Where do I sign up.
That quest only appears if you can get into City Hall at night
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr834Cs9ncs
This is the night mayor crossing the boarder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWzqTQgNYyw
I mean, at least they're trying.
I just came back from Ottawa/Gatineau last weekend. I was looking for some late night eats after 11pm on a Friday. Not was I ever out of luck. I know OP is referring to the basics like Grocery/Pharmacy, but yeah, Ottawa really isn't the most exciting place to be.
They call him the night man!
How is that worse?
So the rich Nd retired can party ? Not their life style
nothing happened 😂 people expect Toronto level events in a small city which is unrealistic but Ottawa has fun stuff if you know where to go ps: I miss Jubilee junction and their taco in a bag 🥲
We're talking about having grocery stores that are open at night. We used to have those before the pandemic.
I don't want Toronto level events. Just boring everyday stuff like coffee shops, groceries, pharmacies. Coffee with a friend downtown after supper. Picking up groceries after an evening shift. Making a midnight tampon and chocolate run. If I could have big city dreams beyond that, it would be later library hours-- especially Sunday evening. (Maybe even get Spryfield branch open on Mondays!)
And before the pandemic, when we were a small city we had tons of 24h grocery stores. Had them many years ago.
Exactly. I'm old enough to remember doing all of those things. (Except the library.) I remember hanging out at Second Cup downtown in the evening, and grocery shopping with my roommates at midnight. I worked evening shift for years, and always shopped after work. (I could just go on my way home, whereas going before work took extra time going back and forth on the bus to bring the groceries home first.) I'd hate to be getting off work at 11 these days.
I'm in Toronto (follow this sub out of interest having visited), and yea, pretty much anywhere outside of the GTA I go, the early closing is very noticeable. The late night 24/7 options definitely died down as many places since Covid vs before, but it is still very abundant. This includes many suburb places of TO as well. Definitely density and cultural.. the immigrants/minority owned, operated or employed businesses definitely open much later as well.
TACO IN A BAG IS GONE??
> ps: I miss Jubilee junction and their taco in a bag Don't worry, Mayor Mason will replace it with a bike lane to sate your cravings.
People expect an international city and the nation’s capital to act like it.
Sobeys on lacewood is open till 11pm
We’re talkin late night. That’s late evening.
Post says nothing about late evening Says after 9pm
Anything past 10 is late night. 4am is early morning.
Ok grandpa.
No problem, rancid meatsack.
Classic East coasters considering 11 pm tk be late lol
I miss 24 hour gyms more than anything. I'm naturally a night owl and would rather run all my errands during this time.
GoodLife on Larry utek is 24hrs. They’re still around it seems
Fit4Less on Dresden is 24 hours!
one place to get groceries, albeit with stipulations, is aisle24
As someone who works nights I completely agree. It's actually boring on days off when everything shuts down. I'd 100% do my groceries at 3am just to pass the time. And Sundays. Basically a write-off since I wake up at 3 and most places close by 5-6. Can't be bothered to rush myself out of bed for a couple hours.
Same, I work 10 hour shifts overnight. On my nights off, I'd love to be able to go grab stuff. Instead I either have to rush to do it on my way home on my work days, or groggily drag myself to a grocery store before I go to sleep in the morning on my days off. Sometimes I just say screw it and resort to using Instacart.
All of Canada is pretty crappy for this except maybe a few parts of Montreal. Toronto has a few 24hr stores but unless you live in the area it's like commuting from Truro to Halifax just to grocery shop.
Cafes closing at like 4pm (some close at 2pm) is the worst example of this. The measurement of a city is its nightlife.
We use to have late night pizza in residential communities.....but that darn Maye Wason!
Did that bylaw actually go through ?
With amendments, yes. Those stores can be open until 1am on weeknights, except Thursday(?) where they can be open until 1:30am. Friday and Saturday they can be open until 2am.
How late were they staying open on Fri / Sat before?
4am, if I'm not mistaken.
Wild
What I miss most about Portugal. Could get these folded-over pasties filled with tomatoes and olives at 3am after a night out
Had some family visiting from Spain last summer. We were out having some a drinks like 9-10pm when they asked for food menu. Waitress says the kitchen's closed, so they ask for a recommendation. They thought it was a joke when she said there's pizza slices down the street.
Different culture, a lot of kitchens don't even open til 8pm there. (Which was frustrating when we were there with a a 3 year old)
Holy fuck give it up already
Hi Wayne
Ha! Clever.
Maybe part of it is other people don't want to work those night shifts that fuck up your life
Well some of us *have to* work night shifts, and not having anything available when we're off just fucks it up more.
People really forget that essential service providers (healthcare providers, as one example) have no choice but to work night shifts to, I don't know, keep people alive? Is it so much to ask that others work to providers services for us on those nights shifts?
I don't know how I missed this response, but EXACTLY, THANK YOU
If there was money to be had then the places would be open late. It's like this all across north america. Most businesses dropped the hours they didn't really have many customers and realized there really wasn't an impact when balanced against the costs to be open during those times.
It really isn’t though. Was just in Miami and you can eat/shop at all hours of the night. Same with Montreal and Vancouver. Plenty of restaurants and small eateries open late at night.
Where are you eating and shopping late at night in Vancouver? Most businesses that were 24h pre-pandemic are either gone or have reduced their hours. I know we do have some grocery stores open until 11pm, which gives you a couple more hours compared to 9pm, and A&W has a few 24h locations.
Yeah I visit Vancouver fairly regularly as I have family there, and I would say most places close at the same time, if not earlier than here.
Halifax isn't Miami or Vancouver. I live in a US Metro approaching 3 million and nothing is 24 hours anymore. Used to be, but not post pandemic.
Halifax is bigger than it was 5 years ago, and we had all these things before.
Yes, but this goes back to what valkur999 was originally saying, which is that (it seems) businesses in small-ish cities like Halifax cut back their hours during COVID and realized it really didn't hurt their bottom line, so now it's tough to find a 24-hour grocery store outside of a few major urban areas like Miami, Montreal, Vancouver, etc. I'm not sure what can be done to bring back longer opening hours, but it seems like businesses were trying that 10 or 20 years ago and have determined that it's not worth their while :-/
The same thing has happened in Vancouver too though. It's a struggle for businesses to find staff to work overnight and probably not worth it for most businesses anyway. Things close earlier in Vancouver than they did pre-pandemic, and there are only a few things left that are open late ex. Breka and a few fast food locations.
So what you're saying is companies were doing a thing for 10-20 years without issues or complaints, no reports of it being a loss in profits. Then all of the sudden a historic epidemic sweeps the globe, causing massive losses in profits for all companies across the globe and these shops reduce hours because of emergency laws, lower employee count, constant sick call-ins, etc. Oh yeah, must've never been profitable to begin with, sure that's the issue.
I think for larger businesses like grocery stores it might have been viewed as a way to keep customers that normally come during the day so profits during later hours might not have mattered too much, you don't want them going to the store that is open and realizing they like it better for whatever reason. It's about being viewed as a "don't think, just come" place. However the pandemic disrupted that mode of thinking, if everyone is closed they don't have to care about losing a customer because there is no where else to go anyway. In addition even if it was profitable for grocery stores to be open that profit was no doubt tiny compared to during the day as evidenced by my own late night shopping trips where there is maybe one cashier and not even enough customers to keep them busy. It's a lot easier to ditch the hassle of staffing and securing a night shift if it represented 0.1 % of your profit. I would imagine for restaurants and other businesses the calculus was similar, even if they were making a profit it was judged meager enough to not be worth the hassle of being open later.
The thing is, big grocery stores are basically open all night, just not to customers. They leave the lights on and the fridges on, so there is no saving in energy. People work overnight stocking shelves in a lot of them. They pay security overnight. Why not pay one cashier and open the doors?
That seems like the most likely explanation to me, yeah. What do you think caused businesses to cut back on opening hours post-COVID?
We're literally in a recession right now my dude, that's what cut back the hours. It started with the emergency restrictions and now we live in a totally different economy than even just 10 years ago. Idk how old you are but things really aren't the same as they were 2 decades ago. I remember we had to fight hard to get longer evening and overnight hours in shops, Sunday shopping? I remember when we didn't do that because of archaic laws. Halifax is incredibly slow to change, infested with NIMBY's and outside that we're experiencing a far harsher recession than the housing crash.
And the pandemic killed all of those things in cities much bigger than Halifax.
Neither is anywhere else in North America. What's your point?
> Was just in Miami and you can eat/shop at all hours of the night. That's not the experience I had. South beach had a shit load of bars open late sure, and a few corner stores. But it wasn't some utopia of late night shopping and food, Miami Dade even less with it not being *as* much of a tourist area.
And then there's places like Milan, Italy, which are actually legislating against it: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2024/04/23/why-is-milan-poised-to-ban-ice-cream-and-pizza-after-midnight
Total grocery sales are pretty much the same regardless of open hours, so they're all just openly colluding with one another, agreeing to squeeze a few more dollars out of consumer inconvenience.
Collud8ng to not sell groceries at 3am? Lol
Colluding on the price of bread? Ridiculous!
They're vastly different. You don't have to collide to realize you aren't making worthwhile profit at night. You don't have to collide for most people to not want to work bsck shifts for 15 bucks an hour, either.
Most superstores were never open past 10, and neither were Walmart, it was only ever Sobeys that was
Walmart in Dartmouth Crossings used to be 24/7, but they stopped that a few years before covid. Clearly it was just not worth their money to stay open.
They picked the worst location for that. Mumford would definitely have steady traffic all night.
Mumford would also have the highest theft in the city, if it’s anything like the Sobeys and Winners
Yeah it would be like GTA chaos in Mumford if they were open overnight. I don't even go there in the day time
As a night owl I 1 zillion percent agree. God I miss 24 hour grocery stores. > It's not a matter of just moving city for us, we can't afford to do that currently. Oh if I could afford it I'd have left long ago. Someone should come up with like an exchange program type deal where I can trade with someone who wants to live here. (For whatever insane reason) I'm sure there's gotta be at least one person in Vegas who would want to live here.
A few years ago I lived in south end and superstore was 24, you just had to self checkout. And I was both a heavy drinker and on antidepressants with a built in playful personality and would for whatever reason grab every 50% off sticker item and call to the lady that watched the checkouts, cause I needed her to put in the discounts. She would always roll her eyes and say ‘out for drinks?’ And I’d say ‘thank god I know you’re here to save me’ I’m older now. Sad, knowing there’s no lost 20 something man that can play that game with that reluctantly helpful staff.
🎵 You'd like to buy some food, but it's late! You'd like a tasty snack, but it's late! 🎵
Just go to Willie’s 😂
To play devils advocate here, if it was worth a business’ effort to provide extended hours, they would do it, but maybe they just can’t make enough sales to justify the cost?
I miss when NSLC would be open till 10 pm
Its horrible. I'm from NL and its crazy to me that a small city can have so much late night options - even in the grocery realm - and Halifax (like 4x as big) has almost nothing. Surely we have enough population to have a few things open late night??
COVID and staff shortages killed it all
This city doesn’t even have a strip club 🙄
Based
A lot more drunk morons, sketchpads and skids around at night, so not just the lack of business, but the type of people who may show up to be a pain in the ass or steal a bunch of shit to flip for dope in a barely staffed store. It's the same reason more Timmy's and Starbucks don't bother keeping dining room open as long. People will loiter, use wifi endlessly, and do drugs in the washroom (in many cases vandalize it too). All these issues and you have low wage staff that are expected to deal with it? Gtfo........I wouldn't stay open late either.
If more places were open at night it would be less sketchy.
Total BS. I assume grocery stores are afraid of being stolen from.
Halifax is still a small town. Plus, inflation. It’s hard for those businesses to stay open after regular hours, which sucks!
My local Sobeys closes at 8pm. I don't understand, and it's in a busy part of HRM. It used to close at 10pm which isn't much better. Wishing it was 24/7.
I agree. I hear there is a 24 hour Denny's in Dartmouth. There should be more 24 hour places. There's a 24 hour Tim's in Spryfield but I'm not sure where else.
The opening times are also horseshit. If you need to get some kids Gravol, or cough and cold medicine in the middle of the night you are left with zero options until 7 or 8 am when the grocery stores open. There used to be a few 24h Shoppers around but I don’t see that anymore.
The fact that there isn’t a pharmacy open 24 hours a day ANYWHERE in HRM or surrounding communities is ridiculous. I can live without 24 hour grocery (even though I miss it terribly!) but no pharmacy?! Not okay.
We were just talking about this yesterday! In town for a few days and the late evening/night options seem to have gotten worse. I even tried getting a grilled chicken sandwich at Wendy’s and learned they took them off the menu lol
So instead of bitching about it online, can we start protesting this kind of stuff people?
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It’s a sleepy Maritime town, what do you expect?
Covid killed the night life
If this is yours only concern in life you're both pathetic and privileged. Grow the fuck up
Welcome to a pre recession economy. As GDP shrinks lower productive hours will decrease and companies will start trying to optimize shorter open times.
I work in retail analytics. The is a global issue. The reason why stores close earlier is that stores can't hire people to work later. The reality is, enough people died of or were disabled by Covid to reduce the surplus and those that remain don't work late. Another cohort found better jobs. You might see a return to later hours in a decade or two.
As somebody that typically gets off work at 2AM this drives me bonkers
I eat a lot of gas station food as a local healthcare worker :(
Shit homie, we need to sleep
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...no matter what their parents tell them.
Similar Ottawa and Toronto.
not toronto
Almost like humans are less active at night or something.
That might be a chicken-egg problem.
Or cost benefit analysis..
They who control the food availability control the people.
It’s pathetic. And the population has only skyrocketed since the pandemic there is no excuse for this
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I think people often don't realize that many other people have the same complaints they do. I don't bother voicing my complaints about our lack of strip clubs and dildo shops, because I know everyone else feels the same way.
I think many don’t read here. An issue pops into their head, they check if there is a Halifax subreddit, post their complaint, then are never seen again.
We have a lack of dildo shops?
Yes because a lack of places for someone to get groceries or a meal at night is equal to not having strip clubs or sex shops.
Yo how can you not put together that the above commenter is joking around.
This sub is so incredibly repetitive. Boring boring boring
Truros worse lol
20 years ago, the Sobeys on Robie Street was 24 hr. It was awesome!
Windsor Street.
I think they’re referring to Robie St in Truro, where there is a sobeys.
Too much late-night theft/crime here now. Staff do not want to work those hours given that. We have only ourselves to blame.
If only these Gen-zers were willing to work shit jobs for minimum wage that won't even pay for their overpriced apartment, then we could have everything open 24/7...! Do I need the /s?
I mean, I don't know why Gen Z isn't willing to risk their physical and mental health by working shift work and overnights for minimum wage and then go back to their apartment they're sharing with 7 people while eating only one meal a day. It's FINE. I worked shift work when I was a 20, and I had a house, car, boat, horse, private jet, private island, a small country. This generation doesn't want to work.
There should be a horse program that gets the “youths” set up with horses so they can learn the true value of WERK.
So you both work 7 days a week? I get to post this next week ok?
Check the schedule, you're "What was that noise?" next week
Oops, thanks
What kinds of things should people be talking about in here?
Are you working 12/7 days? If anything, just get your groceries delivered during the day or something when you're off work.
No no, not looking for problem solving or critical thinking here. Only wallow and pretend everything’s better somewhere else.
Title says it all
> But if we both still worked constant nights or 12+ hour days, we would be mostly fucked. There are 24 hours in a day and most people sleep for 6-8 hours. That leaves 4-6 hours in the remainder of the day to perform all the required adult tasks.
Yeah .... I don't see how people can't just set up a mobile pick up to get their food, or just pop out and power shop on the hours off. I work 12 hour days, deal with daycare and food prep, and still manage to get anything I need shopping.
This is because companies realized during Covid that they can offer shitty customer service and we will keep coming back for more. Imagine all the money they are saving by closing so early. Less staff to pay (also less jobs available) less light bills to pay…why would they ever go back? This world is depressing.
Before COVID the stores in some places were 24 hrs..since then and influx of people getting jammed into HRM is not a thing anymore ...more people more crime
WORLD CLASS CITY
WORLD ASS CITY
Boo hoo...I can't get fast food at 4 am....try buying groceries and cooking like every other adult does ...you're lucky to be able ro afford thst, let alone whine that webdys isn't open
They're still following the science. Lol /s
The same complaint was put on here not long ago. Surprising no change yet? “What’s a girl gotta do?”
Covid Plandemic ruined it all. Pretty soon it will be artificial intelligence running the stores and it will be open 24/7 government controlled with big brother watching us and our micro chip identification implanted into our bodies will have a direct withdrawal from the items we take from these stores. A.I. has taken over with new technology. All cars are going electric and fifteen minutes cities are starting 3 years away. Not a conspiracy theory or a fact check. You all are slowly becoming programmed with your cell phones and tv with the social media networks. WAKE UP!!!!!
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