I’m sick of all the whining about how “you can’t have a business in downtown Halifax.” Bullshit. Plenty of us are running thriving businesses downtown.You just have to offer good products and good service, and you can do just fine. Quit your crying, and quit blaming the people of Halifax for the failure of your business.
This article appears in Jun 26 – Jul 2, 2008.
true dat. i don’t know how many of the businesses survive as is! Some stores don’t even acknowledge you when you walk in the doors, and then they turn around and blame it on Halifax. Maybe they should try selling something or smiling at you so you come back!Restaurants in the city. I have worked at restaurants for years and I know how easy it is – yes easy. There’s a formula…use it. I am so sick of going to those “oh so awesome” downtown pubs, only to be disappointed in service, food, and my bill. Its not that hard to cook a fish and chips and make it taste excellent, and you do it 500 times a day so what’s the problem???its definitly NOT due to a crisis on barrington or gas prices. Halifax needs to step it up a notch and stop offering nothing for something. I think the empty spaces we see everywhere are waiting for quality merchants. there are a few key spots in Halifax that make it worthwhile to come back everytime, but WAY too many that I will never set foot in again. I was at a famous nacho spot recently, and when it took 45 minutes for our nachos, and the waitress wasnt even around to refresh our drinks to try and make more money for the restaurant…she looked at me like I was crazy for complaining and tried to explain that the kitchen was too small, because ya know, it was ok cause the kitchen can’t make food fast enough for the gibillion seats in the place. I felt really sorry for them, then I left without paying my bill and suggested that they build a bigger kitchen with their profits instead of driving customers away.Thanks Happy Downtown Merchant – keep it real!
Businesses on spring garden road, and other areas of the downtown are thriving because people who shop there have the mentality that if they buy shoes at K A S, it shows status, none the less, they’re still skanks!.. Also the same shoes are being offered elsewhere 1/2 price and they don’t bother to look. Things like that.. LuluLemon is 1 large example. Walk in there and see the ppl who shop there.. I would never buy anything there even if you paid me. The secret to successful downtown businesses is rely on shopper stupidity!
Uh Coyotex… My mother bought a pair of KAS shoes… She saved her pension money up for several months to buy those shoes and she says they provide good support for her tired feet… Are you saying my mother is a skank..??I sure HOPE not…!!!
who pissed in your cereal coyotex?”The secret to successful downtown businesses is rely on shopper stupidity!” based on you knowing this secret you must be a very successful business owner in downtown Halifax.The OP is saying how hard work and offering a good product and service are the keys to running a business and you still find a way to take a negative spin.
PS Coyotex… Any business with YOU as a customer must be a fucking goldmine… I need to buy some shares in that…
Floyd.. Indeed, if she saved her pension money over several months, a dumb broad at that, because no normal human in their right frame of mind would actually do that, thanx for sharing tho floyd.. certainly appreciate a good laugh once in a while.T, i’m not stupid enough to pay 8-10k a month rent, thanx! hence my theory! Good products? I see you shop on Spring garden a lot since you’d know by now that Lululemon’s clothing factory is that of joe fresh at superstore is that of the gap!.. yet for some reason lululemon sells their stuff at $75 markup over the same things joe fresh sells.. I saw the same jacket at super store for $30 being sold at lululemon for 120!!!! Hence, the reason your train of thought is feeding those businesses.It’s funny how people get offended when presented with the truth!
I see what you mean Coyotex in your last sentence about the truth… On the topic of running a business,,, tell me were you ever at the souc in Benghazi..??
I try to spend my money here rather then the internet just for the fact of supporting local business. I see no difference between store prices such as Ideal Bikes and online stores in prices.Now I just need the money to spend.
Not back from google earth yet Coyo..?? OK well in the souc I saw a guy with no legs holding,,, in his upturned arms a large tray completely filled with pieces of thick gold jewelry,,, the tray itself was completely gold,,, and when I went up to him to see what he had to offer, he lifted his head,,, outstretched the tray to me,,, and when he smiled I could see in his mouth… Thirty-two solid gold fucking teeth…THAT’s how you run a business… Troll…!!!
how did we get on shoe prices? and that’s about the most ludacris statement about owning a business that I have ever heard Coyotex. but i’ll rely on your stupidity to keep people like you out of business..unless you own a successfull business downtown I don’t know about????
Coyotex,,, Sometimes I think you WANT to fail..!!!
haha…nice there coyotex i was mocking your statement there guy. Maybe you could brush up on comprehension. Where from my statement would you get that I shop on SG?Ur full of shit buddy and I think there is a reason other than smarts that your not paying 8-10k a month to rent space on barrington or SG.Where you shop or what you spend on pants shoes shirts makes no difference to me… im not sure why you care about what others spend on there diggs…its either trash shoping at walmart for their stuff or snobs on SG…whats ur middle(holy) land where you get your shit…hope you enjoy being pissed in hali though dude imma go enjoy my weekend!
You know, there are an awful lot of stores in that neighbourhood that sell overpriced stuff to yuppies. Particularly some of the furniture stores, that sell flimsily made knockoffs of designer furniture at three times the price you see for similar furniture in other cities.I do think those places prey on relatively unsophisticated “new money” types who are status-conscious and more concerned about showing off their money and “taste” than they are about buying actual quality products. They are the people that brag about HOW MUCH they spent on something instead of what a great deal they got on something.The stores get away with it precisely because the customers WANT to spend more so they can brag about, and because there is so little competition in this very small market.
Coyotex, you would never buy anything at LLL yet you have been in there to price check and notice the “type” of people shopping there???Sorry Dude, I’m calling bullshit.
Good call on the “new money” Jammie… I always say I’d rather be broke than be new money… it’s a sad, sad thing to behold, yet entirely fascinating.
Yeah I see what you mean. But I’ll take my new money, thank you 🙂 I’ll just try not to be stupid and tacky in the way I spend it. Honestly I don’t blame some people for wanting to live the martini lifestlye while they’re young, if that’s their priority. It’s fun to be young and trendy and a little (or a lot) pretentious. Sometimes I think I would like to have done that myself. I just don’t see why they have to be so dumb and wasteful about it. They’re taken advantage of by those stores that filch them for far too much on crappy items. A quick stroll up Yonge St. in TO or any street in Vancouver can show you how much you’re overpaying in Halifax.I’m far too future-minded to spend $3.5K on a flimsily made 50s style sofa that looks just like the one in my grandmother’s basement. I’ll save my cash and spend $3K later on one that is actually worth it, and not so trendy as to be out of style in 3 years. For now I’ll keep my perfectly nice if poorly made $900 jobby from Gallery 1. It will fit nicely in the basement once I get a new one. In the meantime I will save unnecessary principal and interest, and put it away in RRSPs so I actually have some of my new money left when I don’t want to work any more.
I blame Sex and the City, and the hordes of young women who try to emulate a fictional lifestyle. Not only that, I firmly believe that stupid show single-handedly destroyed female conversation of an entire generation.I agree though, you can have money and not fall into the “nouveau riche” category. If you buy expensive things for the practicality or comfort of the item it’s one thing, if you buy expensive things simply to impress others, you’re a quailtard.
And Friends, and the OC, and Will n Grace, and even CSI, and….
Thanks Qwerty, last comment was my point exactly. Anyone who does that is stupid enough not to think for themselves. That’s exactly what businesses on SGR rely on.