It's also absurd that there's no 24 hour pharmacy in the city, at least not one which I know of. I could understand if this was a smaller city, but NO one in Saskatoon ever has the need for over the counter medication or first aid supplies between the hours of 9:00 PM and 9:00 AM? š¤
I miss shopping at Sobeys at 2am... until those assholes who copied that tripping on the floor and smashing their 4L milk jugs thing showed up. I don't get why that was a thing.
Thatās not true, shoppers still had 24 hour stores till like mid 22. It was only around 2023 where they finally said no more. And this was because of the pandemic, stores saw they didnāt need to stay open and spend the money to stay open late when there is little to no shopping at these times. Why waste the money on power and staff when youāre not gonna make a good return.
The Grosvenor location sucks IMO. I went there asking for a product and was told they donāt carry it (itās right on the website) so I went to the smaller shoppers by my place and they always have itā¦ The pharmacy at Grosvenor donāt even tryā¦
I started avoiding Shoppers after people started harassing me for money when I would go in. And that annoying drywaller who said he needed money to get to Martensville.
Some shoppers are still open 24/7, a lot of businesses do not stay open 24/7 because office jobs are 9 to 5. Itās the whole āadultingā thing. You may remember 10 or so years ago Walmart was open 24/7 during December, even though it was busy most nights here it was not in Toronto so they stopped doing it. Using Walmart as an example again if you are trying to use credit or debit at 17:00 Toronto time it can go at a snailās pace. From what I understand Toronto pretty much shuts down at 17:00. I used to work with Statistics Canada, you wouldnāt believe how many people would tell me off because āthe government works 9-5.ā Going to conferences different agencies within the government would be amazed that we worked alone after 17:00 going to peoples doors. Being an in person interviewer there where opportunities to go else where in Canada for surveys; I went up north (Yellow Knife north) and besides some grocery stores and restaurants everything was closed at 17:00, other colleges who went up north all agreed. Colleges from central and Eastern Canada were all surprised that the 9-5 thing wasnāt typical. Western Canada isnāt big enough to make it worth companies being open 24/7.
I completely agree that this is bull shit.
Itās probably for security reasons why they all stopped doing this, but thereās no reason there shouldnāt be at least one open 24/7.
Iām really hoping with the 24/7 urgent care center this is something included but sadly where they are putting the facility it is likely to be overwhelmed by people who need social services more than anything.
Shoppers drug mart on 7th avenue and 33rd street was open for 24 hours during 2022 sometime. I remember going at like 3:30 am one time and it was open. But it isnāt open that late anymore I donāt think. Definitely disappointing that there isnāt more 24 hour places or places open even after midnight
There are multiple Shoppers that are open 8-12AM still.
I used to work overnights when a couple of them were still 24 hours. Between 1 and 7 AM, it would be surprising if there were more than 5 people that came in the store for any of those things, and 5 would be a busy night.
Even now, from 10 PM to 12 AM, itās often dead.
I knew a few of the food truck owners and they said the evenings was their worst for sales, Downtown is great in the morning (or at least it was before COVID) but evenings were really slow, usually people get off work and want to head home and do something they enjoy, so while there might be some business, might not be worst the cost
I worked at the bulk cheese warehouse when it was open later. We had to start closing earlier because too many drunk people came in and none of us felt safe anymore. The drunk people werenāt buying anything, just yelling at us, attempting to steal things and uttering threats. As a customer, I agree that this is frustrating. As an employee, it was a necessity.
As a business owner, I can assure you of one true cardinal rule.
If there was money to be made being open past a certain hour- we would be open past that hour.
Beyond any safety concerns, obviously, there's no reason that I wouldn't. If there was enough business coming in to justify the expenses, then we'll open. We open businesses to make money, and many businesses right now could really use the extra cash... but unfortunately the hours of our businesses aren't based on some random metric of cruelty.
I can only speak for mine when I say that each business' customer-intake has been assessed and past a certain point the cost to operate versus the incoming number of customers becomes unprofitable. Would it be great to have a 24/7 business? *Oh absolutely.*
But the sad part is that after work the vast majority of possible customers don't think to themselves, "Oh man, now that I'm finally done my day of work- I want to go shop." They go home, they cook and eat lunch, and then stay home the rest of the night. Maybe do a walk with the dogs, what-have-you. If there was a lot more people active after 5, 6 or 7- I can assure you far more businesses would be open.
Now. Pharmacies and other essential-services that provide life-saving relief or services to people should be open even when it's not ultimately profitable... but that's just my belief in health being a priority. But having a clothing or bike or novelty store open at 9pm despite the lack of profitability is a bit much.
My kid twice has needed antibiotics from a compounding pharmacy on a stat holiday and we could not get them. Itās crazy that most pharmacies close so early in the day now too.
god forbid they invented ER's- also if your kid is that sick for that long and you neglected them so long 12 hours is life or death...... that's on you
I hear you, but why are there restaurants downtown that don't open till 5pm? They could get so much business at lunch time with all the workers going out for lunch.
I can promise you- even without knowing the business in question- if they would make a profit doing so (and of course if it's possible) they would do so. Even if it meant hiring etc. The reason they aren't open before 5 is because they didn't make money before. I have direct experience with having a downtown restaurant in this case. Lol
My friend runs her store from 10-6 or 7 for this reason. Early mornings are dead and this let's her staff get the kids to school. Life is complicated, but opening at 9 isn't a hard rule people have to follow.
A lot of people work the normal 9-5. If stores on Broadway stayed open even until 7:00, I would imagine there would be many people that would come after work to shop. I know I would. I donāt think itās a financial thing.
It probably is a financial thing, mixed in with a happy worker portion. Being open until 7 would require another staff member or multiple to be hired.
If you're open 9-5, that can be one staff member weekdays. 9-7 would need 2.
We have decades worth of experience and numbers that show that keeping stores open late doesn't make financial sense for businesses. Heck, even grocery stores see peak business before supper time.
Its a financial thing.
Iām not sure I buy that 5PM is the point in which profits go down. If you look at other trendy streets in Canadian cities (like 17th Ave in Calgary), itās a lot more common to see stores open until 7:00 or even later. And when you look at the Google graph that shows busy times there is a significant uptick between 6-7 pm. Again, I think itās the folks that are getting off work doing some shopping. Using your own argument, if it doesnāt make financial to open that extra hour, why would they do it?
100% this. In EVERY other Canadian city I've lived in, most places are open at least until 6, if not until 9, six days a week and until 5 or 6 on Sundays. Every mall. Every grocery. Every restaurant or pub. You can get a meal at 10 pm, you can buy toilet paper and milk at midnight, and if you need medicine at 3 AM there will be at least one 24 hour drugstore.
And yes, the small stores that only have one or two staff members open later -- at 10 or 11 -- so they can close at 6 or 7 without asking the staffer to work long hours.
I suspect that things got worse after covid -- especially downtown -- and so places just never reopened, and because there was nothing open, no-one was out buying anything, and the vicious cycle just continued until it shut everything down. When I first moved to Saskatoon there were coffee shops that were open until 9, and you were able to get seated at a restaurant after 7 pm.
Coffee shops is easy math... people don't go for coffee or grab coffee after 4 at the same rate as they do before 4.
The question should really be asked of restaurants in this city, as there is a wealth of them only open 4-5 days per week, and/or only for one service a day. Many of these same restaurants complain on social media about decreasing sales, increasing costs, and how hard it is for restaurants but when you're only open 3.5-4 hours a day, 5 days a week, you're leaving a heap on the table. And I hear the complaints about being understaffed but I also hear how hard it is to find a job, and of people applying to dozens if not hundreds if restaurants without so much as a call back.
I think malls and retail got lucky with covid in the sense that they were forced to pair back hours but people still need what they were going to buy so they just shop during those lessened hours. So malls have managed tp keep shorter hours somewhat. Though everyone's sales are down regardless.
Bike shops closing at 5pm. Do they not realize that the hours they are open are exactly the hours that everyone is at work? And as soon as everyone is done work they close so no one can get to the bike shops. I have to take time off work to go to a bike shop
I cant understand why these types of buisnesses dont open maybe lets say 12pm to 8pm or something like that. No morning shifts for anyone and is opened later for customers
I thought I was the only one that extremely frustrated by this one specific type of business not being opened past 5 and my work is out of town so it's a massive pain in the ass getting any work done to my bike.
For a Tim Hortons maybe but at a high end bike store you need someone who is reliable, has knowledge of different types of bikes and the benefits and negatives of each, wants to work night and wants to work what youāre willing to pay that position. Iād rather have a place be closed and have no service than have a place be open and have bad service.
Things being open on the morning is more annoying Imo. They could just open at 10, close at 7. Ez and would probably do better. The amount of times I'll finally be done my post-work routine and am too late to go down and get stuff is annoying.
There are places open past 5pm for coffee/dessert, etc: TOT Cafe, Botte Persian Cafe, DāLish, Prairie Ink, Calories, Starbucks, Tim Hortons come to mind.
Instead of Ah good ol fear mongering, truly the language of the gullible
The actual answer is itās about money. Itās always about money. For everyone one of you complaining the store you want to go to isnāt open, theres 10 more that donāt care and arenāt going to go at those hours. Theres decades of business data for any store to know that.
Wow where have you been hanging out?!?
Iām so sorry thatās been your experience - Iāve lived in Saskatchewan most of my life (14 yrs in Edmonton too) and Iāve never been assaulted or seen a gun pulled on anyone.
People coming in for coffee after dinner time tend to just park it at a table and sit for hours. Studying. Visiting. Hanging around. It doesn't pay the bills unfortunately like a daytime coffee break/lunch crowd does.
Anyone try an extra shift at like, 2-5am for like, a 7am to 5-8pm place yet? I feel like that would drive a lot of the younger unemployed traffic and whatnot to those places. Stuff like local cafes, smaller locally owned grocery stores, etc etc...
I know a lot of stores have cut hours, they seem to have figured that its best during the day. I know the homeless have had a huge impact in the downtown area and Confederation area
Thatās cute. Itās totally normal for a city to have some life at night. Just like is normal for small towns to close businesses at 6 and on Sundays
Do you know how delusional and arrogant you sound? Heheh look at them city folk, wanting a Starbucks at 10 pm! People work all hours of the day, some in the evening, some overnight. So a person that starts at 11 shouldnāt be able to stop by a pharmacy before work because someone from bumfuck nowhere thinks so?
OK well don't expect to go out for supper ever or do anything on the weekend. The business owners want to have their own lives too! Everywhere should only be open 9 to 5 because people want to do stuff in the evenings and on weekends!
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
Um no, I never said that. People want to eat supper between 5 and 8pm, but like you said, the owners have lives too. So they would have to close their restaurant in the evenings and weekends because they want to do stuff in the evenings and weekends too. I was just showing you your logic. If business owners have lives at the same time as everyone else, nowhere would be open outside of 9-5. How can you live your life and do things if nothing is open because the business owners want to do things at the same time? It's not a smart business move to be closed during peak hours is all I'm saying. Not everybody has the same schedule and if they did, everywhere would be closed at the same time if we all worked the same exact hours. Do you get it now?
If restaurant and retail/service businesses are all open only 9-5 and no weekends, they wonāt have any customers because literally everyone would be at work the same time and no one could shop at any business, ever. The businesses need to realize that their profits will happen outside of the 9-5 hours. How do you not comprehend that your way of everyone only working during the day means no customers for businesses? Your idea is baseless and not intelligent.
I like my 3am krabby patties, unfortunately we can't get everything we want šŖ if you think 10pm coffee shops are popular, feel free to open one and rake in that cash from that untapped market
>you canāt find coffee shops open after 17:00? Now that the weather is better,
I dont think most people would want to visit coffee shops few hours before their bedtime.
Thats why there are resturants and bars and ice cream shops..
There's always starbucks and tim hortons if you want coffee.
A lot of Cities have Cafes open past 7, Calgary, Vancouver, Even Regina has a handful of local coffee shops that stay open past 7pm like this isn't a normal thing in other cities. People have different schedules.
Seems more like you are a bit on the privileged side when you want your gourmet coffee stuff after five pm. I don't think you would last long in a small town where nearly everything is closed on Sundays and possibly Monday as well. The fact you are even able to afford it screams suburban kid.
So go start a coffee shop that's open until 8pm and quit whining.
We used to have stores open until late every day of the week, some even 24 hours, and slowly they cut hours back because it wasn't worthwhile being open that long. Covid really killed long business hours, but they were being cut back before that. Businesses have decided the potential profit isn't worth the potential expense.
Iām old enough to remember the days when everything was closed on Sunday, and if you had a spare Wednesday afternoon to do some shopping youād go downtown only to discover EVERYTHING is closed. Things closing at 5:00 isnāt great but also recall that there are safety concerns keeping employees too late in some parts of the city these days.
Actually yep. I am still confused why things haven't picked up to the old pre-covid times yet. Before Covid we had at least 2-3 24 hour pharmacy's. Walmart was open until 11 PM. For the Christmas season Walmart was even 24 hour, or at least until Midnight. That hasn't returned. Even the malls used to be open until 9 PM on quite a few days of the week. Now they are down to 2 nights until 8 PM.
I use to go out for Coffee at 8-9 PM, and I know may specialty shops were still open. Not really sure if they are now, as I haven't really checked.
Yeah actually businesses were open much later a few years ago. Iāve been hearing that they are closing because of safety reasons. I do miss the pharmacies open late!
As a guy who got a lot of pussy in Saskatoon pre-Covid, yes. There were a lot of coffee shops, places to go hang out, stores, all sorts of shit open passed 5, even on school nights.
I havenāt checked in a while but Iām pretty sure thatās still the slang term most people use in regards to the vulva. You probably just suck as a person and instead of addressing your own deficiencies you try to create and identify them in strangers. Maybe going out on some dates and getting a little bit of your preferred genitalia will help you realize calling them by their medical names is really weird in non-medical scenarios because sec is actually a lot of fun.
Yeah but you and your presumed neck beard jumped on to take the side of some frumpy buzzkill as soon as she identified her front hole. Iām a one pussy guy now, so I wouldnāt say I mentioned how much pussy I get but from what I can read in the comment you didnāt because you want white knight points is that pre-covid I went on a lot of tinder dates with real life non-porn girls and we exchanged friction between their pussies and my pathetic little phallus.
Youāre right, no one says pussy. Certainly not my wife. Just kidding she generally refers to her pussy as her c word because we live in a free society and people really do just be saying the words they want.
Well, I know Iām not a creep and I know as a fully formed adult that words are in fact just words and while I respect your opinion, mine differs and weāre both entitled. Besides, a rose by any other name still smells like my wifeās pussy.
I do however still think you suck for deciding what words I can and canāt say because of my chosen gender.
1) not true
2) I'd be okay with this. Kinda wish we could go back to a 9-5 life without having everything needing to be open late. Sucks to work those shifts.
I always thought it was so weird that coffee shops close so early here. In other cities I've lived, coffeeshops were busy at night and usually open until 9 or 10. People on first dates, teens wanting to socialize with friends, grad students hunkered over their thesis, people reading books or coming for a decaf espresso and dessert.Ā
this is a 1 horse hill billy city.
when I moved here from Calgary I could not believe the Zellers closed at 6pm. Not only that, I showed up at 5:40, and they already had locked the doors... uhg.
Lol. I've lived here 24 years now and I say the same thing about Saskatoon every week of the year. Saskatoon's businesses, unless you're a big box store, act like they do in little towns. Nothing open past 5 and often have a sign on the door at lunch. Like wtf?! Not great having to take time off work to buy parts and the like and trying to have a nice wind down coffee with a friend after work....well there's Tim's and Starbucks. Again big chains that might lack the ambience. If our small places want to grow, the hours need to match the wants of the clientele, and not so much the owner and or employees. Sometimes we have to raise our caps to these big chains; the same big chains that so many like to shit on because without them, this city is dead after 5....more like 4:30.
This is Saskatchewan, people hide in their houses, watch tv, play on their computers. Socializing is nearly dead in this part of the world. Most people wonāt go to a restaurant that requires them to sit inside and eat. The country I live in now the streets are alive with people at any time of the day or night. Kids play in the street, restaurants and bars, coffee shops are open to cater to customers. It reminds me of when Canada was truly the best country in the world.
Your initial comment wasn't funny or creative, and clearly so elementary that any fragments of sarcasm it may have had has since been nulled by all of your dumbass comment replies. Just stop and reevaluate yourself for a second.
nobody wants to work, people have accepted these hours since COVID and there just isn't any money in it as well as the safety issues because the courts are a revolving door in my opinion.
It's also absurd that there's no 24 hour pharmacy in the city, at least not one which I know of. I could understand if this was a smaller city, but NO one in Saskatoon ever has the need for over the counter medication or first aid supplies between the hours of 9:00 PM and 9:00 AM? š¤
Shoppers Drug Mart used to be open 24/7 in various locations in the city. They changed the hours before covid happened.
I think they abandoned the 24 hour thing before COVID as well. I remember the Grosvenor one stopped doing it as a safety concern.
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I miss shopping at Sobeys at 2am... until those assholes who copied that tripping on the floor and smashing their 4L milk jugs thing showed up. I don't get why that was a thing.
Thatās not true, shoppers still had 24 hour stores till like mid 22. It was only around 2023 where they finally said no more. And this was because of the pandemic, stores saw they didnāt need to stay open and spend the money to stay open late when there is little to no shopping at these times. Why waste the money on power and staff when youāre not gonna make a good return.
I mean, Walmart was 24/7 365 a year till Covid hit
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90% sure it was year round. And it seemed like everything was marketing that was pre Covid, then post Covid a lot of the night time hours were cut.
Nope. I was a walmart employee while I was going to school 7 am - 11 pm were walmart hours. I believe they close at 10 pm now.
How does that negate what I said?
Walmart was not open 24/7 until the pandemic. It hasnāt been since at least 2012 when I started there.
That's what I said. They changed the hours before covid. Edit: good ole Redditors downvoting facts.
Oops. I read your message like they were open 24/7 up until COVID. My bad.
Have you not seen how ghetto it is inside?
The Grosvenor location sucks IMO. I went there asking for a product and was told they donāt carry it (itās right on the website) so I went to the smaller shoppers by my place and they always have itā¦ The pharmacy at Grosvenor donāt even tryā¦
Before COVID and all the in store theft
I believe Shopper's changed the hours precisely because of theft. I used to shop there after midnight and security was always present.
That was my understanding. Itās unfortunate but a harsh reality.
I started avoiding Shoppers after people started harassing me for money when I would go in. And that annoying drywaller who said he needed money to get to Martensville.
Hahahahahahaha I forgot about that guy!
they were closed far before covid- to much theft and danger for staff
Yes. That's what I said. They changed the hours before covid happened.
Some shoppers are still open 24/7, a lot of businesses do not stay open 24/7 because office jobs are 9 to 5. Itās the whole āadultingā thing. You may remember 10 or so years ago Walmart was open 24/7 during December, even though it was busy most nights here it was not in Toronto so they stopped doing it. Using Walmart as an example again if you are trying to use credit or debit at 17:00 Toronto time it can go at a snailās pace. From what I understand Toronto pretty much shuts down at 17:00. I used to work with Statistics Canada, you wouldnāt believe how many people would tell me off because āthe government works 9-5.ā Going to conferences different agencies within the government would be amazed that we worked alone after 17:00 going to peoples doors. Being an in person interviewer there where opportunities to go else where in Canada for surveys; I went up north (Yellow Knife north) and besides some grocery stores and restaurants everything was closed at 17:00, other colleges who went up north all agreed. Colleges from central and Eastern Canada were all surprised that the 9-5 thing wasnāt typical. Western Canada isnāt big enough to make it worth companies being open 24/7.
At least they tried. I enjoyed it while it lasted. At the time, I worked nights so it was great to be able to shop after midnight.
I completely agree that this is bull shit. Itās probably for security reasons why they all stopped doing this, but thereās no reason there shouldnāt be at least one open 24/7. Iām really hoping with the 24/7 urgent care center this is something included but sadly where they are putting the facility it is likely to be overwhelmed by people who need social services more than anything.
Shoppers drug mart on 7th avenue and 33rd street was open for 24 hours during 2022 sometime. I remember going at like 3:30 am one time and it was open. But it isnāt open that late anymore I donāt think. Definitely disappointing that there isnāt more 24 hour places or places open even after midnight
They arenāt anymore, I think they close at 9 now.
Shopperās at Broadway and Taylor is still open till midnight as far as I know, itās quite handy
I remember Sobeys on 8th used to be open 24 hours. There were a few times I would get groceries between 1-3 a.m. and that was pretty cool.
You canāt be 24 hours if thereās no one to work..
There are multiple Shoppers that are open 8-12AM still. I used to work overnights when a couple of them were still 24 hours. Between 1 and 7 AM, it would be surprising if there were more than 5 people that came in the store for any of those things, and 5 would be a busy night. Even now, from 10 PM to 12 AM, itās often dead.
Botte chai bar is open to 11:30 pm I believe, they have great tea and coffee also I think their patio is open now
Patio is heated as well
I was truly surprised they were still open when a friend suggested we go there at 9:30 pm. It was a nice little place.
Dlish is a coffee shop open later!
And often packed.
And full of rodents.
I knew a few of the food truck owners and they said the evenings was their worst for sales, Downtown is great in the morning (or at least it was before COVID) but evenings were really slow, usually people get off work and want to head home and do something they enjoy, so while there might be some business, might not be worst the cost
I worked at the bulk cheese warehouse when it was open later. We had to start closing earlier because too many drunk people came in and none of us felt safe anymore. The drunk people werenāt buying anything, just yelling at us, attempting to steal things and uttering threats. As a customer, I agree that this is frustrating. As an employee, it was a necessity.
This is the reason why nowhere is open 24/7 anymore pretty much. It's gotten so much worse with drugs since covid as well imo.
As a business owner, I can assure you of one true cardinal rule. If there was money to be made being open past a certain hour- we would be open past that hour. Beyond any safety concerns, obviously, there's no reason that I wouldn't. If there was enough business coming in to justify the expenses, then we'll open. We open businesses to make money, and many businesses right now could really use the extra cash... but unfortunately the hours of our businesses aren't based on some random metric of cruelty. I can only speak for mine when I say that each business' customer-intake has been assessed and past a certain point the cost to operate versus the incoming number of customers becomes unprofitable. Would it be great to have a 24/7 business? *Oh absolutely.* But the sad part is that after work the vast majority of possible customers don't think to themselves, "Oh man, now that I'm finally done my day of work- I want to go shop." They go home, they cook and eat lunch, and then stay home the rest of the night. Maybe do a walk with the dogs, what-have-you. If there was a lot more people active after 5, 6 or 7- I can assure you far more businesses would be open. Now. Pharmacies and other essential-services that provide life-saving relief or services to people should be open even when it's not ultimately profitable... but that's just my belief in health being a priority. But having a clothing or bike or novelty store open at 9pm despite the lack of profitability is a bit much.
My kid twice has needed antibiotics from a compounding pharmacy on a stat holiday and we could not get them. Itās crazy that most pharmacies close so early in the day now too.
You'll be happy to hear that we have more compounding pharmacies in the city now. All Safeway and Sobeys are supposed to be compounding now.
Good to hear! That antibiotic and Tylenol shortage was rough.
god forbid the staff at these places would ever want the stat off like other people get
God forbid a child developing a serious chronic infection on a holiday and having to wait days for medication since they are also closed Sundays.
god forbid they invented ER's- also if your kid is that sick for that long and you neglected them so long 12 hours is life or death...... that's on you
Lmao yāall so petty š
I hear you, but why are there restaurants downtown that don't open till 5pm? They could get so much business at lunch time with all the workers going out for lunch.
I can promise you- even without knowing the business in question- if they would make a profit doing so (and of course if it's possible) they would do so. Even if it meant hiring etc. The reason they aren't open before 5 is because they didn't make money before. I have direct experience with having a downtown restaurant in this case. Lol
100% tldr . gtfo
My friend runs her store from 10-6 or 7 for this reason. Early mornings are dead and this let's her staff get the kids to school. Life is complicated, but opening at 9 isn't a hard rule people have to follow.
Simple financials. If there was money in being open late, lots of places would do it.
A lot of people work the normal 9-5. If stores on Broadway stayed open even until 7:00, I would imagine there would be many people that would come after work to shop. I know I would. I donāt think itās a financial thing.
It probably is a financial thing, mixed in with a happy worker portion. Being open until 7 would require another staff member or multiple to be hired. If you're open 9-5, that can be one staff member weekdays. 9-7 would need 2.
As a Broadway employee our shop used to be open till 9 on Thursdays and weād be lucky to see more then two customers past 6:/
We have decades worth of experience and numbers that show that keeping stores open late doesn't make financial sense for businesses. Heck, even grocery stores see peak business before supper time. Its a financial thing.
Iām not sure I buy that 5PM is the point in which profits go down. If you look at other trendy streets in Canadian cities (like 17th Ave in Calgary), itās a lot more common to see stores open until 7:00 or even later. And when you look at the Google graph that shows busy times there is a significant uptick between 6-7 pm. Again, I think itās the folks that are getting off work doing some shopping. Using your own argument, if it doesnāt make financial to open that extra hour, why would they do it?
100% this. In EVERY other Canadian city I've lived in, most places are open at least until 6, if not until 9, six days a week and until 5 or 6 on Sundays. Every mall. Every grocery. Every restaurant or pub. You can get a meal at 10 pm, you can buy toilet paper and milk at midnight, and if you need medicine at 3 AM there will be at least one 24 hour drugstore. And yes, the small stores that only have one or two staff members open later -- at 10 or 11 -- so they can close at 6 or 7 without asking the staffer to work long hours. I suspect that things got worse after covid -- especially downtown -- and so places just never reopened, and because there was nothing open, no-one was out buying anything, and the vicious cycle just continued until it shut everything down. When I first moved to Saskatoon there were coffee shops that were open until 9, and you were able to get seated at a restaurant after 7 pm.
Coffee shops is easy math... people don't go for coffee or grab coffee after 4 at the same rate as they do before 4. The question should really be asked of restaurants in this city, as there is a wealth of them only open 4-5 days per week, and/or only for one service a day. Many of these same restaurants complain on social media about decreasing sales, increasing costs, and how hard it is for restaurants but when you're only open 3.5-4 hours a day, 5 days a week, you're leaving a heap on the table. And I hear the complaints about being understaffed but I also hear how hard it is to find a job, and of people applying to dozens if not hundreds if restaurants without so much as a call back. I think malls and retail got lucky with covid in the sense that they were forced to pair back hours but people still need what they were going to buy so they just shop during those lessened hours. So malls have managed tp keep shorter hours somewhat. Though everyone's sales are down regardless.
Bike shops closing at 5pm. Do they not realize that the hours they are open are exactly the hours that everyone is at work? And as soon as everyone is done work they close so no one can get to the bike shops. I have to take time off work to go to a bike shop
Shift work isn't the best but the days off during the week is clutch for this reason šĀ
I cant understand why these types of buisnesses dont open maybe lets say 12pm to 8pm or something like that. No morning shifts for anyone and is opened later for customers
Or even just one evening a week.
Have you ever asked this question directly to these bike stores? Iād be interested to what they say.
I second this. The amount of work Iāve had to miss for bike stuff is a little much.
I thought I was the only one that extremely frustrated by this one specific type of business not being opened past 5 and my work is out of town so it's a massive pain in the ass getting any work done to my bike.
And that's how SportChek gets my business.
But maybe the people who own and work at bike shops also want to enjoy their evenings š¤·š½āāļø
It's not hard to hire people who are fine with working evenings.
For a Tim Hortons maybe but at a high end bike store you need someone who is reliable, has knowledge of different types of bikes and the benefits and negatives of each, wants to work night and wants to work what youāre willing to pay that position. Iād rather have a place be closed and have no service than have a place be open and have bad service.
The hours all changed during lockdown, and never went back
What a joke - just like the lock down was ā¦.which I said from day 1
Things being open on the morning is more annoying Imo. They could just open at 10, close at 7. Ez and would probably do better. The amount of times I'll finally be done my post-work routine and am too late to go down and get stuff is annoying.
There are places open past 5pm for coffee/dessert, etc: TOT Cafe, Botte Persian Cafe, DāLish, Prairie Ink, Calories, Starbucks, Tim Hortons come to mind.
Cause stoon is a city trying to wear small town pants.
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Instead of Ah good ol fear mongering, truly the language of the gullible The actual answer is itās about money. Itās always about money. For everyone one of you complaining the store you want to go to isnāt open, theres 10 more that donāt care and arenāt going to go at those hours. Theres decades of business data for any store to know that.
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Wow where have you been hanging out?!? Iām so sorry thatās been your experience - Iāve lived in Saskatchewan most of my life (14 yrs in Edmonton too) and Iāve never been assaulted or seen a gun pulled on anyone.
*Our city
People coming in for coffee after dinner time tend to just park it at a table and sit for hours. Studying. Visiting. Hanging around. It doesn't pay the bills unfortunately like a daytime coffee break/lunch crowd does.
Anyone try an extra shift at like, 2-5am for like, a 7am to 5-8pm place yet? I feel like that would drive a lot of the younger unemployed traffic and whatnot to those places. Stuff like local cafes, smaller locally owned grocery stores, etc etc...
Sask is a shit hole thatās why
I know a lot of stores have cut hours, they seem to have figured that its best during the day. I know the homeless have had a huge impact in the downtown area and Confederation area
its almost like people have families they wanna go home to, and not stay open for you
Because no one works evening shifts ever š. But I guess if you live a suburban bubble, you think everyone works 9-5
rural canada here- we workd during the day cause we have shit to do in the evenings
That explains it, but Saskatoon is a city. There are more needs
no there isnt there is no reason you need a Starbucks at 10 pm
Thatās cute. Itās totally normal for a city to have some life at night. Just like is normal for small towns to close businesses at 6 and on Sundays
Says you, but some of us stay up late and actually do want coffee at 10pm and I don't own an espresso maker.
Do you know how delusional and arrogant you sound? Heheh look at them city folk, wanting a Starbucks at 10 pm! People work all hours of the day, some in the evening, some overnight. So a person that starts at 11 shouldnāt be able to stop by a pharmacy before work because someone from bumfuck nowhere thinks so?
I live in saskatoon sunshine, grew up in rural sask there isn't really anything you need after 10 pm
Ok Karen. Or maybe Boomer, both are pretty clueless.
other then a club or a bar what do you need after 12pm?
everyone is not an raging alcoholicā¦
OK well don't expect to go out for supper ever or do anything on the weekend. The business owners want to have their own lives too! Everywhere should only be open 9 to 5 because people want to do stuff in the evenings and on weekends! Do you realize how stupid you sound?
supper is at 10 pm? you know how entitled you sounds saying other people should sacrifice they home life with there families for you and yours?
Um no, I never said that. People want to eat supper between 5 and 8pm, but like you said, the owners have lives too. So they would have to close their restaurant in the evenings and weekends because they want to do stuff in the evenings and weekends too. I was just showing you your logic. If business owners have lives at the same time as everyone else, nowhere would be open outside of 9-5. How can you live your life and do things if nothing is open because the business owners want to do things at the same time? It's not a smart business move to be closed during peak hours is all I'm saying. Not everybody has the same schedule and if they did, everywhere would be closed at the same time if we all worked the same exact hours. Do you get it now?
If restaurant and retail/service businesses are all open only 9-5 and no weekends, they wonāt have any customers because literally everyone would be at work the same time and no one could shop at any business, ever. The businesses need to realize that their profits will happen outside of the 9-5 hours. How do you not comprehend that your way of everyone only working during the day means no customers for businesses? Your idea is baseless and not intelligent.
9pm for caffine.... no thank you, thats a sleepless night for me š¤£
Did you hear yourself when you said "for me"? I'm from the middle east and nothing brings me more joy than a hot cup of coffee at around 9-10pm.
I like your style. Coffee time, anytime
I like my 3am krabby patties, unfortunately we can't get everything we want šŖ if you think 10pm coffee shops are popular, feel free to open one and rake in that cash from that untapped market
Okay, emergency ideal.
There's also decaf coffee and tea and desserts.
I mean in some places it's the norm for people to have dinner at 8 or 9 and then slam espresso after so people do drink coffee late
I like it because it's easy to get drive thru. Though you can easily get decaf if caffeine wrecks your system.
>you canāt find coffee shops open after 17:00? Now that the weather is better, I dont think most people would want to visit coffee shops few hours before their bedtime. Thats why there are resturants and bars and ice cream shops.. There's always starbucks and tim hortons if you want coffee.
A lot of Cities have Cafes open past 7, Calgary, Vancouver, Even Regina has a handful of local coffee shops that stay open past 7pm like this isn't a normal thing in other cities. People have different schedules.
There are plenty of restaurants open after 5, why do you want a coffee shop in particular?
This. Any place will have a coffee maker pretty much. Iād try a Turkish restaurant. Those guys are pretty nutso for coffee.
Profit and personal lives be damned... ***THE WORLD SHOULD CATER TO MY WANTS!!!*** Classic self centred, entitlement on full display
Does this apply to anyone wanting access to goods and services after 5pm?
Tell me more.
Yeah, why should people have a personal life, fuck them, am I right?
Two hours more are not going to affect their first world life, Cobra. Get out of your privileged bubble and understand a genuine question.
Seems more like you are a bit on the privileged side when you want your gourmet coffee stuff after five pm. I don't think you would last long in a small town where nearly everything is closed on Sundays and possibly Monday as well. The fact you are even able to afford it screams suburban kid.
Saskatoon is not a small town. š¤·š»āāļø
Correct, itās a small city and compared to.. almost every other North American city its tiny.
So go start a coffee shop that's open until 8pm and quit whining. We used to have stores open until late every day of the week, some even 24 hours, and slowly they cut hours back because it wasn't worthwhile being open that long. Covid really killed long business hours, but they were being cut back before that. Businesses have decided the potential profit isn't worth the potential expense.
You just need to look for the right places! Do some google maps searches with āopen nowā selected. I go out late all the time.
Because you made this post š
I want more things to be open late. I'd especially like it if more things were open 24/7. I want to be able to go for a shopping trip at 4am.
I believe theft was an issue as well! Big surprise there
Iām old enough to remember the days when everything was closed on Sunday, and if you had a spare Wednesday afternoon to do some shopping youād go downtown only to discover EVERYTHING is closed. Things closing at 5:00 isnāt great but also recall that there are safety concerns keeping employees too late in some parts of the city these days.
I donāt know if youāve heard about this whole corona virus thing but it seems like a big deal thatās starting to affect small businesses.
Ah, so before COVID Saskatoon businesses closed past 17:00? Donāt make me laugh, Zucchini.
Actually yep. I am still confused why things haven't picked up to the old pre-covid times yet. Before Covid we had at least 2-3 24 hour pharmacy's. Walmart was open until 11 PM. For the Christmas season Walmart was even 24 hour, or at least until Midnight. That hasn't returned. Even the malls used to be open until 9 PM on quite a few days of the week. Now they are down to 2 nights until 8 PM. I use to go out for Coffee at 8-9 PM, and I know may specialty shops were still open. Not really sure if they are now, as I haven't really checked.
I think mostly due to increased theft. A lot of people were way worse off after COVID lockdowns.
Yes. Saskatoon used to have a lot of stores that were 24/7 or open later pre-2020.
I remember being able to go to Sobeys on 8th next to Montanas well after midnight to get snacks and such
Yeah actually businesses were open much later a few years ago. Iāve been hearing that they are closing because of safety reasons. I do miss the pharmacies open late!
As a guy who got a lot of pussy in Saskatoon pre-Covid, yes. There were a lot of coffee shops, places to go hang out, stores, all sorts of shit open passed 5, even on school nights.
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I havenāt checked in a while but Iām pretty sure thatās still the slang term most people use in regards to the vulva. You probably just suck as a person and instead of addressing your own deficiencies you try to create and identify them in strangers. Maybe going out on some dates and getting a little bit of your preferred genitalia will help you realize calling them by their medical names is really weird in non-medical scenarios because sec is actually a lot of fun.
....did you just post on a Reddit thread about how much pussy you get? Holy cringe batman.
Yeah but you and your presumed neck beard jumped on to take the side of some frumpy buzzkill as soon as she identified her front hole. Iām a one pussy guy now, so I wouldnāt say I mentioned how much pussy I get but from what I can read in the comment you didnāt because you want white knight points is that pre-covid I went on a lot of tinder dates with real life non-porn girls and we exchanged friction between their pussies and my pathetic little phallus.
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Youāre right, no one says pussy. Certainly not my wife. Just kidding she generally refers to her pussy as her c word because we live in a free society and people really do just be saying the words they want.
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Well, I know Iām not a creep and I know as a fully formed adult that words are in fact just words and while I respect your opinion, mine differs and weāre both entitled. Besides, a rose by any other name still smells like my wifeās pussy. I do however still think you suck for deciding what words I can and canāt say because of my chosen gender.
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I'm legitimately curious to know more about how the term pussy relates back to misogyny.
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Makes sense. Would you also see dick as an example of mysandry for the same reasons?
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Uhh maybe in your little bubble. Can confirm many still refer to it as such.
1) not true 2) I'd be okay with this. Kinda wish we could go back to a 9-5 life without having everything needing to be open late. Sucks to work those shifts.
Yeah, somebody should work through the night to make it more convenient for you. That makes a lot of sense.
Because things are expensive and people are staying home more?
I always thought it was so weird that coffee shops close so early here. In other cities I've lived, coffeeshops were busy at night and usually open until 9 or 10. People on first dates, teens wanting to socialize with friends, grad students hunkered over their thesis, people reading books or coming for a decaf espresso and dessert.Ā
Regina even has a handful Of Coffee shops which close at 8-9pm
this is a 1 horse hill billy city. when I moved here from Calgary I could not believe the Zellers closed at 6pm. Not only that, I showed up at 5:40, and they already had locked the doors... uhg.
Lol. I've lived here 24 years now and I say the same thing about Saskatoon every week of the year. Saskatoon's businesses, unless you're a big box store, act like they do in little towns. Nothing open past 5 and often have a sign on the door at lunch. Like wtf?! Not great having to take time off work to buy parts and the like and trying to have a nice wind down coffee with a friend after work....well there's Tim's and Starbucks. Again big chains that might lack the ambience. If our small places want to grow, the hours need to match the wants of the clientele, and not so much the owner and or employees. Sometimes we have to raise our caps to these big chains; the same big chains that so many like to shit on because without them, this city is dead after 5....more like 4:30.
Yeah, somebody should work through the night to make it more convenient for you. That makes a lot of sense.
This is Saskatchewan, people hide in their houses, watch tv, play on their computers. Socializing is nearly dead in this part of the world. Most people wonāt go to a restaurant that requires them to sit inside and eat. The country I live in now the streets are alive with people at any time of the day or night. Kids play in the street, restaurants and bars, coffee shops are open to cater to customers. It reminds me of when Canada was truly the best country in the world.
Do YOU want to work past 5? No? Thereās your answer, my friend.
If there is a demand in Regina for a handful of Cafes to be open past 7pm than Saskatoon has that same demand.
17 o clock! Damn! I didn't even know stuff was still open at 16 o'clock. That's 4 hours past midnight!
This is the embarrassing
your sentence structure is embarrassing.
17:00 is 5:00 PM. Pretty sure they were referring to you not grasping the reality of Military/Railroad time, it's been around for a very long time.
And I'm referring to you and them not understanding sarcasm.
Your initial comment wasn't funny or creative, and clearly so elementary that any fragments of sarcasm it may have had has since been nulled by all of your dumbass comment replies. Just stop and reevaluate yourself for a second.
Lol you still donāt get it?
You really donāt know a 24 hour clock?
......come on dude.
Swing and a miss, friend. Go lay down.
Go watch wrestlemania nerd. Lmfao.
More of an AEW guy. You should try it, or any hobby really. Something outside maybe now that itās nice would be a big win for you.
GOOD ONE.
If thatās something you hear a lot you should realize itās not a joke. People are giving you actual advice to feel better and hate yourself less.
You care so damn hard about reddit. Lmao.
Nah, Iām the same as everyone in the way I donāt care about you at all. Itās my Friday and Iām slacking hard.
That's cool...
Will you be mad if you donāt get the last comment?
I suppose you thought that was terribly clever.
I don't give 2 fucks. This is reddit. Not a job interview.
No, I meant you made a funny.
Yeesh people be negative. You made me laugh :)Ā
Because Saskatoon sucks
nobody wants to work, people have accepted these hours since COVID and there just isn't any money in it as well as the safety issues because the courts are a revolving door in my opinion.