A regular reader recommended this piece on The Conversation by the author of Montreal After Dark, about evolutions in the city’s nightlife.
Although the title and the book page discuss Montreal, The Conversation article doggedly writes “Montréal” which gets on my nerves. Maybe they have a house style. If they do, it is wrong.
A dollar store on Mont‑Royal East is closing, posting a sign blaming the city’s business tax. But then the owner also blames the summer pedestrianization of the street, and a coda brings in Peter Sergakis, although the item doesn’t say he’s the landlord.
I actually bought some wrapping paper from there a couple days ago and was sad to see it was closing. It was a bit more like a general store than a dollar store. The sign says it was taxes that did them in but it was probably more likely that it was the two big Dollaramas on either side of the store.
Montreal businesses need to get with the times and start thinking local. No one is coming from outside your neighbourhood to come shopping at your store – especially not a dollar store.
What CE said. As usual, failing businesses love to blame anyone but themselves. Blaming taxes or pedestrianized streets can seem sympathetic to some; blaming similar businesses that outcompeted you less so.
The city’s biggest sponge park is in limbo as Quebec delays its approval.
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