Montreal based Cazza Petite is opening a store in Halifax Shopping Centre

Turkish under garment store Penti, who has 100s of stores worldwide has opened it’s first store in the America’s in Park Lane



Springhouse has opened their plant-based cafe on Gottingen Street

The new Tim Hortons at the Halifax Exhibition Centre on Prospect Road is now open

Rocky’s Noodles is now open on Granville at Salter



The gift store part of Selby’s Bunker Coffee & Gifts on Cole Harbour Road is now open.

East Coast Dumpling House is now open at 958 Cole Harbour Rd.

The Lawn Guy has opened a second location on Larry Uteck at Kearney Lake selling all kinds of Husqvarna equipment

Payless Shoesource announced this week that it would be ceasing operations, including all 248 in Canada.

HBC closing all remaining Home Outfitters stores ?in 2019

It appears that Burnside’s Japan Deli is done it has been closed for since at least last week with no note on the door. It has closed for weeks before in the past to reopen with new operators.

Henry’s has closed up their Dartmouth location, and merged with Bayers Lake

Asian grocer Sino Fresh Market has closed it’s doors in Burnside

Mary Browns in Fairview closed for a while as it gets a complete renovation, right back to the studs

Ristorante a Mano has reopened after major renovation.

Starbucks inside of Chapters in Bayers Lake has reopened after a complete makeover.

Bridgewater Mall and neighbouring Eastside Plaza is being rebranded as South Shore Centre

JAS Diner in downtown Shubenacadie which has been closed for a few weeks announced that they have permanently closed

The NSLC had 456,822 cannabis transactions from October 17 to December 30 for a total of $17.4M

from same quarter last year

Wine down 1.6% to $41M

Spirits down 1.4% to $48M

Beer down 3.1% to $65M

Ready to drink up 14.7% to $9.4M

Sobeys is introducing “Sensory Friendly Shopping Time” at all stores, starting tonight Feb 24 from 6-7pm and then every 2 weeks.

They will be reducing the lighting, and minimizing sounds like cart collection and scanners