Gold Winner The Apple Store Silver Winner Mac East Bronze Winner MysteryByte Computers Anyone who owns an Apple product knows the horror of when their dependable machine stops working. Whether you get too many cookie crumbs in your keyboard or dropped your laptop on its face, the Apple Store has a way of swooping in […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Apple Store Silver Winner GBS Technologies (formerly PC Medic) Bronze Winner Octopi Computers Voting for the 2017 Best of Halifax awards ended September 15, with winners announced in The Coast’s BOH issue, out in print and online November 2. In between, we at The Coast tabulate the votes to figure out the winners, […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Apple Store Silver Winner PC-Wizrd Bronze Winner Octopi Computers The Halifax Shopping Centre’s Apple Store opened back in 2012, making it the first Apple Store in Atlantic Canada. Since the Halifax Mac Store on Barrington closed earlier that same year, the mall is the only place Apple fanatics can get their fix on […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Octopi Computers Silver Winner Apple Store Bronze Winner PC Wizrd
 All due respect to the geniuses staffing the pads at Halifax’s Apple Store, but those cephalopodic shopkeepers at Octopi Computers have the coolest mainframes in town. Don’t believe us? Go and PC for yourself. Apple might download some free U2 onto your phone, […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Octopi Computers Silver Winner Apple Store, Halifax Shopping Centre
 Bronze Winner Downtown Digital
 “I think it’s doing our best to look after our customers,” says co-owner Kris McCann of why his still-brand-new Octopi Computers took home this year’s Best Computer Store award. Barely three months old, Octopi has been making a name for […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Apple Store Silver Winner Downtown Digital Bronze Winner Best Buy, Dartmouth Crossing When Apple first opened a store in the Halifax Shopping Centre, it had a lot of people wondering what on earth took them so long. Now, after over a year, it’s proven that wherever Apple is, devoted tech-heads are as well. […]
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Best New Store
Gold Winner Victoria’s Secret Silver Winner Apple Store Bronze Winner J&R Grimsmo The secret’s out—people fancy a fancy brassiere. One of the newest additions to the Halifax Shopping Centre is a massive one: Victoria’s Secret overwhelms with its selection of unmentionables, sports clothes, jammies and good-smelling things. On any given day the place is packed […]
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Best Computer Store
Gold Winner Apple Store Silver Winner Future Shop, Bayers Lake Bronze Winner Downtown Digital It was only a matter of time before the clean lines and futuristic look of the Apple Store would make their way to Halifax. And with all the i-defined gadgets and sleek computers that always seem a couple steps ahead of […]
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Apple Store opening date set
A reliable source tells us that the new Apple Store in the Halifax Shopping Centre will open August 8.
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Best Computer Store
Co-owner Jeremy MacNeil sings a familiar song with so many shops this year: sales are a little down. The good news is that the popular computer store’s service business has spiked, and it’s not because the products are being manufactured with less quality control, MacNeil assures us. “Everyone is feeling the squeeze of the economy […]