Stores open 24/7

[Regulator75]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

More like an extra $2.70

Desperate times calls for exaggerated prices.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by soulchoice

None of the Walmarts are open 24/7 anymore at all. They stopped doing that in the fall. Even after the renos, they are now only open till around 11pm and some 12am.

Apparently they had problems, especially at Shawnessy where the C-Train line ends, with drunk/homeless people wandering into the store in the middle of the night. One day, a woman working in the luggage department came into work and found a bunch of suitcases arranged in a crude fort. She assumed that the night staff had been screwing around, so she went to put the suitcases back on the shelf and found a guy sleeping inside and freaked out.

I guess it's a cute romantic comedy when Natalie Portman lives in a Walmart store, not so much when it's a homeless dude in Calgary.

Originally Posted by soulchoice

Heck, we were one of the last cities in Canada to finally get 24 hr Mcdonalds.

I think that was more a result of the job market we've had over the last few years. Places were having a hard enough time finding staff who would work during the day let alone overnight.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by fleuryisgod

Not anymore, Sobeys bought them out and they switched hours.

The Lakeview IGA closed? Lame, I spent many a 3:00AM eating powdered doughtnuts there after drinking a 40 in the park.

I remember they had some rule that only a certain amount of young peolpe could enter the store at one time.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by blankall

The Lakeview IGA closed? Lame, I spent many a 3:00AM eating powdered doughtnuts there after drinking a 40 in the park.

Ahh, the highlife. Classy.

[fleuryisgod]

Originally Posted by blankall

The Lakeview IGA closed? Lame, I spent many a 3:00AM eating powdered doughtnuts there after drinking a 40 in the park.

I remember they had some rule that only a certain amount of young peolpe could enter the store at one time.

Ya on the way home from the bar half the time we would get the cab just to drop us off at IGA, buy some random food and have a nice stumble home after that...good times.

[You Need a Thneed]

The 24 hour Shoppers Drug Mart locations in Calgary:

Chinook Centre
Aspen Woods
McKnight Village
North Hill
Creekside

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Ahh, the highlife. Classy.

Well when you're 16 in Calgary you don't have many options. I also remember spending a lot of time outside the liquor store looking for a boot and getting "left overs" from my buddy who worked at the DQ.

Man that strip mall was great.