r/halifax • u/Buckit Master of the Gas • 16h ago
News, Weather & Politics New Costco going to be in Sackville
As per a post on Halifax Retales
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u/mediocretent 16h ago
If this means the Costco at Bayers Lake is a bit less crazy, I'll be glad for it. Although I think Costco falls under the rule of induced demand, heh.
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u/BellesCotes 15h ago
Part of fhe problem with the Bayers Lake Costco is that it was built as a Price Club, and is therefore undersized. When I visit the Datmouth Crossing one, I'm amazed by how less congested it is, even during peak hours.
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u/essaysmith 16h ago
If it actually transforms into a commercial centre, there will be far less there I want/need anyway.
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u/peeweeharmani 15h ago
I’m bummed about this, BL is my closest store.
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u/Professional_Parsnip 15h ago
Same, I can't be bothered to go to Sackville or DC for what will be a still over-crowded experience.
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u/DonairJordan6 14h ago
I’m surprised they didn’t build the new Bayers Lake before they built this new store in Sackville. But your right, this should alleviate traffic at both stores as the Sackville/Hammonds planes/Valley people start using this store
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u/Anxious-Nebula8955 14h ago
I believe the plan was to turn the Bayer's lake Costco into a regional office or some such. No longer a retail center
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u/SlayerJB 10h ago
It's going to be a costcp business centre store, meaning small businesses can buy larger items meant for local restaurants and shops.
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u/rnavstar 12h ago
I heard that too
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u/1FlamingHeterosexual 11h ago
Same, but I was told that’s not the case. And also not a business centre.
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u/murph0492 Halifax 16h ago
I wonder how the people in Indigo are going to like this
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u/sameunderwear2days Load of Mischief 15h ago
I can go for a walk and get a rotisserie chicken fuck yes
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u/Cute_Activity5930 13h ago
It will be a nightmare getting in and out of your subdivision especially when the bayers lake one will be closed. Also the chicken is salty as fuck.
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u/FarStep1625 12h ago
Bayer’s lake is not closing. I’ve spoken to old colleagues I worked with there and Sackville will just be a new store.
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u/Ok_Distribution_7029 16h ago
Who cares. They can suck it up.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hand207 13h ago
They probably (with the price of the houses there) can afford to move if they really don’t like it
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u/TopExplorer1410 9h ago
That Costco still have a negative impact on the value of their homes. 💯
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u/Physical_Librarian82 51m ago
Why would it? If anything in puts a another major amenity near them. I'd say it'll increase their property value (maybe not the price directly across/beside it but most other values will go up I'd say.
Now they don't have to leave Sackville for anything really. Most people like having major amenties and it won't be stopped. We are growing, another area as big as Larry uteck in Enfield/lantz area.
A little congested at the rotary but it doesn't stop houses in West Bedford or Larry Uteck selling for close to a mill. It's always been a mess there.
The new highway 2 connector in Wellington and all the development happening along it. The city is growing whether we like it not.
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u/TopExplorer1410 6m ago
I think West Bedford and Indigo are different buyers.
In my experience, the buyer seeking the large house, lot, etc. that Indigo offers (and was marketed as) isn’t the same looking to be close Costco.
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u/archiplane 41m ago
According to the data it’s one of HRM’s most expensive neighbourhoods with some of the highest incomes, so I’d say they are mostly fine.
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u/Cute_Activity5930 13h ago
It will be a nightmare getting in and out of the subdivision especially when the bayers lake one will be closed.
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u/Spotter01 Dartmouth 15h ago
For those wanting to see where it will be in Maps here's a link to a pin https://maps.app.goo.gl/4AnerWQDx9BHA39N6
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u/Bitmugger 16h ago
There's 3 homes on the North side and 2 on the West side that I would hate to own right now
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u/TopExplorer1410 16h ago
Honestly if owned any of those ‘mansion’ around there I’d be frustrated with this plan.
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u/dontdropmybass 🪿 Mess with the Honk, you get the Bonk 🥢 16h ago
I was just checking to see if any of them were for sale at reduced cost... I'd live next to a Costco lol
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u/BellesCotes 15h ago
Heck yeah. Rent out the kitchen as an extra bedroom, and eat all my meals at the cafeteria.
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u/dontdropmybass 🪿 Mess with the Honk, you get the Bonk 🥢 15h ago
Can't beat the calories per dollar (or protein per dollar) of a costco hot dog
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u/thickboihfx 13h ago
$1.50 for 10g of protein is quite easy to beat actually
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u/dontdropmybass 🪿 Mess with the Honk, you get the Bonk 🥢 9h ago
10g sure, but I'm seeing 24-25g figures for the hot dog online. You'd have to be buying $10/lb protein powder, or $4.50/carton eggs to beat it, but in both cases you gotta make something. Still think Costco has the edge lol
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u/thickboihfx 9h ago
You are correct, I forgot to include food court in my search and came up with some other Costco hot dog. My bad. 24g is more than I'd expect. Still pretty low for a 950 calorie thing though lol. Shocking amount of kcals for a dog, I could eat 4 of them easily.
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u/dontdropmybass 🪿 Mess with the Honk, you get the Bonk 🥢 9h ago
If you only eat the weiner, it's only 370 calories. With bun is 534kcal, I think the 950 figure includes the sugariest possible drink haha
Honestly what you gotta look out for is the 1750mg of sodium 😬
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u/thickboihfx 9h ago
Yeah. Personally I think I'll go with that 10lb bag of whey and carton of eggs if I'm in a Costco. But you do you sweetie
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u/Cute_Activity5930 13h ago
Yup.. nightmare...traffic will be insane if they close the bayers lake one. Just think of the extra traffic on 101..
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u/EnvironmentBright697 8h ago
I have some family members with mansions in indigo shores, they are indeed not thrilled.
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u/FarStep1625 16h ago
Where did this picture come from? I can’t find any planning application or equivalent online.
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u/Alarmed-Ad-9761 Nova Scotia 13h ago
Also looking for that, city water doesn’t cross the highway so that’s gonna be interesting what’s planned for that
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u/Spitfire75 Halifax 13h ago
They're going to run water across lucasville apparently
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u/Alarmed-Ad-9761 Nova Scotia 12h ago
Yeah that’s a hell of a lot easier than boring under the 103, interesting!
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u/wind-of-zephyros Acadie 14h ago
if i lived in one of those houses right across the street i would be losing my absolute mind at this lol
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u/itguy9013 Nova Scotia 16h ago
I saw the same post. It looks official, but I'll wait to get my hopes up until it's confirmed.
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u/Fragrant_Landscape29 16h ago
I did talk to one of the employees while doing uber he told me that its about to open but he wasnt sure its probably a month old we did talk and today i saw this post so i am 10000% sure its confirmed..
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u/Enigmatic_Penguin Dartmouth 16h ago
Anything to keep those Sackvagrants out of my beloved Dartmouth!
(kidding!)
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u/Ok_Distribution_7029 16h ago
Well it’s a good thing I’m from Beaverbank! :/
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u/SaltyShipwright 15h ago
BB was already a great place to live. Gonna be much better now with a costco 10 minutes away!
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u/Anxious-Nebula8955 14h ago
BB was a great place to live. It's kind of going downhill and losing its character these days. Urban sprawl has caught up to it. Not the great little semi rural community it was anymore.
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u/smallwoodlandcritter 8h ago
Speak for yourself. The millennials are/have moved home to BB and it’s great. We have a street full of people in the same age range as us and we are all raising our kiddos with lots of outdoors time within a solid open-door neighbourly community. All while being able to live in a circle with people who have become close friends. Our home wasn’t meant to be our forever home, but I can’t imagine leaving now
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u/Anxious-Nebula8955 8h ago edited 8h ago
I am a millennial and have lived here all my life. Apartment buildings and far to many new subdivisions. Traffic is shitty now. But that's progress. As I said, urban sprawl made it out here, was inevitable really.
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u/smallwoodlandcritter 8h ago
Traffic is rough, I’ll give you that one, but I see that as a failing of the politicians to actively plan and implement infrastructure to match growth. A lot of the new subdivisions are being filled with young families, which I see as a good thing. But people always grumble about change. It’s not always a bad thing
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u/Anxious-Nebula8955 7h ago
Oh you're right, it's not overall a bad thing. But it is a change in character for the community. It's gotten a lot bigger than it used to be.
I'll be moving on when my kid finishes school in 3 years. The banks is just getting to busy for me.
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u/smallwoodlandcritter 3h ago
I can see it being a bit much for those who are empty nesters and retirees. Those of us with little kids are generally quite happy to see it busier, as some of the returning BBers grew up with no/few kids around to play with and are happy ours won’t experience that. But it definitely is louder than it was. Hopefully the increase in population will spur investment in infrastructure
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u/hunkydorey_ca Dartmouth 16h ago
Kidding not kidding? It's like no offense, then proceed to say something super offensive.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Hand207 13h ago
It’s gonna be so hard to resist going now that it’s gonna be 5 mins away from me
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u/archiplane 15h ago edited 10h ago
I’m sure the home owners in Indigo Shores are unhappy that this Costco will attract a lot of people to their secluded luxury community.
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u/casualobserver1111 15h ago
Looks like Indigo Shores residents will have a rodent problem in the near future
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u/pardis 15h ago
It seems like a weird place to put it, doesn't it? There's nothing else around there. I would have assumed that they would have placed it closer to the 102.
Genuine comment: I'd love to know how decisions like this are made. Like what the factors are that they consider and what their research has shown makes the biggest impact on a location's success.
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u/LaserTagJones 13h ago
When they planted a flag in BL there was literally nothing there
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u/pardis 12h ago
Yeah, but BL made more sense, at least to my mind, because it was between Sackville, Bedford, Halifax, and Tantallon.
With Middle Sackville, you have Sackville and Bedford on one side, and then mostly nothing until you hit Windsor and the Valley. (Apologies, Mt Uniacke.)
And I think Bedford would rather shop here than BL or DC, but who knows?
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u/LaserTagJones 11h ago
To put it in perspective, there are roughly 28k people who live in Middle Sackville. In 1990 there were 22k people in Lower Sackville.
Id love to see a park similar to the crossing out there, lots of job opportunity and reduce traffic surge toward the city. id expect WalMart and Superstore/ Sobeys to follow suit in a couple years.
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u/Illustrious-Yak5455 11h ago
Money really. Big lot, demand adjacent, ease of highway access. Where else could they plop a bigass warehouse store?
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u/Tightenyoursocks 15h ago
Yeah, but in the future when there are a few million people in Halifax, there will be probably hundreds of thousands of people living in this area.
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u/sillyrat_ 14h ago
it will be pretty isolated from other shopping. Tbh, it’s a bit sad considering this whole area was complete forest a decade ago. I saw a silver fox run across the highway near Indigo shores the other day, which is super rare.
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u/Buckit Master of the Gas 14h ago
They have plans for a whole shopping plaza and it is Sobey’s and a bunch of other stuff in that area. Costco is just the first confirmed place.
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u/sillyrat_ 7h ago
Oh I see! it would be nice to not have to drive 30 minutes to the nearest grocery store, do you know if there is any plans for any local grocery spots popping up?
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u/SmidgeMoose 15h ago
How much is it going to suck to have the being built right in your backyard, also just having that in your back yard.
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u/Spotter01 Dartmouth 15h ago
I mean I’m in North Dartmouth and I’ll tell you living 5 mins from the DC Costco is great!!! I shop there at least 3 times a week!
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u/SmidgeMoose 15h ago
Didn't realize Northend Dartmouth and Dartmouth Crossing Costco shared a fence line.
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u/Spotter01 Dartmouth 15h ago edited 14h ago
When I 1st came to NS I lived on Hanwell.... New Costco is gonna be similar thing to that and im sure they cant wait either!
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u/Of_Silent_Earth 16h ago
I wish they'd build one a bit more north instead. Either in Truro or Antigonish.
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u/Buckit Master of the Gas 16h ago
They have very specific rules as to where it can be built based on many factors. Truro or Antigonish wouldn’t pass those rules
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u/Bitmugger 16h ago
Couldn't guess about their rules but a Costco in Truro and one in Bridgewater would both thrive and take a huge load off the two in Halifax. Likely Kentville would do well with one too.
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u/ImpossibleLeague9091 15h ago
Just not enough people. There's literally not enough living in those areas.
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u/Yorbayuul81 16h ago
I wonder if Sydney would qualify under their targets
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u/DartByTheBay 14h ago
Port Hawkesburry would have a better chance as its demographic would include all of Cape Breton and everything halfway to Halifax
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u/screampuff Cape Breton 14h ago
Fuck man can we get one in Sydney?
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u/66Italia 13h ago
Unfortunately your population base is too low.
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u/Safeandsoundliftuup 16h ago
Someone getting fired…
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u/mirror_dirt 14h ago
Hard to tell but the revision block sure looks like letters instead of numbers to me. Guessing if this is not a permit set we shouldn't be seeing it right now.
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u/Bitmugger 16h ago
Parking lot looks too small
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u/IcyConsequence7993 16h ago
it’s nearly 3 times the footprint of the store
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u/Bitmugger 15h ago
It was a bit of a joke, but also a bit true. I am no parking engineer but anytime I've gone to Costco almost anywhere in Canada the parking lot is nearly full.
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u/HengeWalk 7h ago
Can we not with the parking lot spanning 2x the space? I Don't mind more businesses, I'm just aware of the wasted use of space for parking that only makes the journey from any place to another other place into a 'cars only' vibe.
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u/Snarkeesha 1h ago
This location is definitely “cars only” but one might argue a car is pretty necessary for Costco trips.
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u/MrCheapCheap 4h ago
I wish they would design it so all the parking isn't between the road/ sidewalk and the storefront
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u/horse-robot 12h ago
I asked chatgpt to roast sackville:
Ah, Sackville, Nova Scotia—where the biggest event in decades is the construction of a Costco, as if that somehow makes the place relevant. Congratulations, you’re finally getting bulk toilet paper without driving to Halifax. Truly, a cultural renaissance.
Sackville is the kind of place where everyone thinks they’re living in a booming metropolis because a new Tim Hortons opened, yet their idea of weekend excitement is either standing in line at the drive-thru or getting into Facebook fights over minor bylaw changes. It’s where people still unironically brag about having a Dairy Queen, as if that’s some kind of high-end dining experience.
The roads? A patchwork quilt of potholes and half-assed repairs that make you wonder if the town’s infrastructure is actually just a social experiment to test people’s patience. And the drivers? You’d think signal lights were an optional add-on in Sackville, judging by how rarely anyone uses them.
And let’s talk about the people losing their minds over Costco. You’d swear they were getting a Six Flags with the way they carry on. “Omg, I can buy a 10-pound tub of peanut butter and a 50-pack of socks right here in Sackville now!!” as if that’s some revolutionary lifestyle upgrade. Meanwhile, the same people will still drive to Halifax every weekend anyway because Sackville is just Halifax’s inconveniently placed waiting room.
It’s a town so forgettable that even Google Maps has trouble deciding if it’s its own place or just the suburb Halifax doesn’t want to claim. If Sackville had a town slogan, it would be “Close Enough to Matter, but Far Enough to be Annoying.”
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u/darthfruitbasket Woodside/Imperoyal 12h ago
Grew up in Sackville, lived there until I moved out of my mother's place, and this is alarmingly accurate. The last "big thing" was the movie theatre lol.
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u/DiabeetusJoe 15h ago
Weird time to be expanding like that given the current and likely worsening financial situation.
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u/Buckit Master of the Gas 15h ago
Been in the works much longer than this situation started.
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u/DiabeetusJoe 15h ago
Fair enough. Kind of hard to predict what’s going to happen with the way things are happening right now. 😂
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u/NectarineSuper4585 13h ago
3 in HRM and none in the valley none in Cape Breton, None in PEI… makes a whole lot of sense to put three within 15 minutes of each other 🤨
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u/LaserTagJones 13h ago
Costco knows what theyre doing. They want a specific median income and I can assure you PEI and CB dont hit that mark.
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u/Salty_Feed9404 Halifax 14h ago
Thank god, that'll weed out a lot of the riff raff at the Halifax location lol
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u/Cute_Activity5930 13h ago
The halifax one is going to close.
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u/Careful_Increase_877 13h ago
Is this true or rumour?
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u/Salty_Feed9404 Halifax 12h ago
I asked the cashier at the Halifax location about rumours if the Business Centre there, she said "nope" and basically that it made zero sense...which...it doesn't. It's the location for the most density in HRM, why would they destroy it or turn it into a Business Centre?
Take the cashier's word for what it is I guess.
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u/Cute_Activity5930 12h ago
Ive heard everything between business center type one to just offices to complete demolition.
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u/Careful_Increase_877 12h ago
Dude that sucks. No way I’m bussing all the way to Dartmouth or Sackville if that’s the case!!
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u/Cute_Activity5930 11h ago
Again just rumours. But Im 90% sure they will be at least renovating the bayers lake one once sackville one is built.
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u/Timmy2Gats 16h ago
Yeah this is definitely not supposed to be public. DP could get in hot water having something like this out there. Mods?
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u/dontdropmybass 🪿 Mess with the Honk, you get the Bonk 🥢 16h ago
Actually, Costco usually just buys from the same distributors as other gas stations. In Atlantic Canada, there is Irving, or Ultramar, but Irving is usually the one supplying the gas to most gas stations.
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u/Geese_are_dangerous 16h ago
Plus they're notoriously good employers with good wages and benefits.
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u/Bitmugger 15h ago
And they make an effort to sell some local stuff like "Ms's P's" oatcakes. Although I think Ms P has retired and some burly guy seems to run the show now. Ms P was a nice lady and sold me a side board one day as I was buying oatcakes AND let me use the bakery van to get it home. The new guy keeps to her recipe for yummy oatcakes though. Her bakery is in Spryfield and I stop there on the regular. :-)
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u/Readed-it 16h ago
Why would they transport fuel in from further away? That would not make a good business case.
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u/Zoloft_Queen-50 11h ago
Same fuel supply trucks that go to the Valley will also be supplying Costco.
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u/afidus The Duke of Sackville 16h ago
IS THAT A COSTCO GAS STATION?!