Welcome to the local liquor store. Ten employees working. One cash open. Fifteen people in line. —Sobering up waiting
This article appears in Jan 29 – Feb 4, 2015.
I got no where better to be.
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Blame Ginny Sack and her “Mandated Cashier To Drunkard” ratios
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Unions CAN Make a difference.
The liquor store is next door. You’re in one of those down-market “serviced centers” frequented by the Halifax Underclass who can’t afford anything better than cheap inflatable dolls.
Lol, should be private like BC. Then you’d have one on every corner.
NSLC is a joke. Years ago while looking for some pastis I went to several stores in Halifax and Dartmouth. Most of the employees had never heard of it and 2 employees led me to the Great White and pointed at it shamefully.
The difference in customer service/employee knowledge between the NSLC and the few private operations around town is pretty obvious. I will say that it has come a long way over the past twenty years, though. Even within the past 5 or so years its pretty obvious that there has been a shift in how it is run. So, keep up the good work?
“Years ago while looking for some pastis”
They probably thought you were looking for some “pasties” and were slurring your words because you had too much to drink.
when did bc get private hard liquor stores?
I hate how the LC’s took over the Pinnacle sales from PWaS.
Damn gubment screwing with my holiday liquor runs…
What do you expect with unionized cashiers.
Good things come to those who wait. At least that’s what I hear.
Probably 15 years. They had said they closing the government ones, so everyone hopped on.
I think a ham sandwich is the CEO of the NSLC
“The enduring rapture with magic and fable has always struck me as latently childish and somehow sexless (and thus also related to childlessness).”
― Christopher Hitchens, Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
Pretty sure Hitchens was referring to religion , and not the painful necessity of queuing up for booze. Then again, the man did bow his head before a rather large pantheon of brandies and cognacs, so who knows…?
Do taxi drivers still pick up and deliver alcohol?
Any taxi drivers who post on LTWWB who can answer my question?
^Come on ,there has to be at least 1 maybe 2 taxi drivers/retired taxi drivers who post on LTWWB who can answer.
I used to work as a taxi dispatcher – we delivered condoms to motels.
An acquaintance drove a cab in Halifax/Dartmouth for years but now delivers car parts.