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1. Scotia Square Food Court
How does Scotia Square - a food court right in the middle of all the incredible downtown restaurants - survive? I don't get it. I really don't. I only ever end up in Scotia Square out of necessity but I guess as far as food courts go, this one isn't…More »
2. D-Tox - CLOSED
So straight up? I have no idea what this store is, what it sells, or why I would ever go into it again. But what I do know is that one of their staff gave me the most surprisingly good customer service throughout an entire day of popping into stores…More »
3. The Source
Don't come here during the Christmas rush. The store location is too small to get around or even breathe in, customers are generally shopping for things they don't understand for their teenagers and have a ton of questions, and each staff member…More »
4. Aldo
Admist a mall of long waits and inattentive staff, Aldo gave me the quick in-and-out experience that I needed to cap off a successful Christmas shopping day. Staff seemed legitimately eager to help customers, even put off by the fact that all I came…More »
5. Danier Leather
Despite being one of the calmer stores in the mall, the well-staffed shop couldn't seem to keep up with the few customers in the store.
I went in for leather gloves and had to search around for them on my own hoping that an employee would point me in…More »
6. HMV
Brittney K. is totally right - this store seems to always amass HUGE line-ups. We're talking twenty-some people already waiting by the time I walked in at 3pm on a Monday. While the staff seemed to be working hard to get through it all, the situation…More »
7. The Bay
Dartmouth, NS B3A 4N3
(902) 469-6680
The clothing selection here is nothing to get excited about. While they try to boast designer lines, most of their product is very plain or dated despite still having the elevated price tag for Michael Kors, Calvin Klein, etc. They may not realize…More »
8. Shoppers Drug Mart
With so many brand new Shoppers Drug Mart locations in metro, it's funny that ones like this can still survive. They have the bare minimum compared to other locations, missing out on the potential to expand their beauty and cosmetics departments to…More »
9. Scotia Square
Once the center of downtown Halifax's heyday, Scotia Square has become a bit of a shopping graveyard. The place is old, outdated and 90% parking garage with little redeeming qualities on the inside compared to the boutiques and shops surrounding it.
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10. Sunnyside Mall
Sunnyside is a food mall for me. While it's packed with tons of stores, most of them are pretty inconsequential to anything I'd ever visit a mall for. Sure, there's a nice Backyard & Veranda and Indigo has often been good in a pinch for books and…More »
11. The Gap
Pretty standard fare for a large corporate chain and a staple of the Mic Mac Mall for many years, The Gap is what it is.
The clothing selection is pretty safe and consistent from year to year, there are always strange sales that make for decent…More »
12. Mama Gratti's Deli & Bakery
I have a lot of love for Mama Gratti's! This fresh lil market in Scotia Square knows how to do lunch right - walking the perfect line between not-going-to-put-you-in-a-food -coma and lettuce-alone-does-not-a-salad -make.
All premade and packaged for…More »
13. Park Lane
I may have waffled a bit between a three-star and a four-star for our dear Park Lane mall but ultimately my past visits throughout the holiday shopping season have definitely pushed this downtown shopping centre up a couple notches in my books.
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14. Bedford Place Mall
Oh dear. I remember the days of excitedly rushing to Bedford Place Mall for video games or graphic tees during my youthful days as it was the cooler, hipper counterpart to Sunnyside Mall's Bedford snobbery. But today? Woof. This place needs an…More »
15. Mic Mac Mall
I don't always visit malls, but when I do, I prefer Mic Mac. And I swear that's not just my Dartmouth allegiance talking...
Sure - Halifax Shopping Centre keeps landing new retailers like the Apple Store, Victoria Secret, and all the make-up shops…More »
16. Halifax Shopping Centre
I like to think of Halifax Shopping Centre as the Hilary Duff to Mic Mac Mall's Emma Stone. The HSC gets all the shiny new retailers that everyone gets all juiced up over, it's a pretty enough interior for a mall, and all in all there's very little…More »
17. Scholar's Choice
You know how in Vegas casinos pump in oxygen and maintain the sense of 'daylight' all day and all night to keep people gambling? Scholar's Choice must do something like that for teachers. As soon as they're in there, it's like trying to get a…More »
18. Toys R Us
Going from a kid's perspective on Toys R Us as heaven on earth, to a grown-up without kids perspective as large store with a surprisingly limited stock of honest-to-goodness toys is a harsh rite of passage into adulthood. Suddenly the memories of…More »
19. Thai Express
Jeez. I was so ready to get all food snob on you guys for liking this place but I'm pleasantly (and shockingly) surprised to say that this is some damn good fast food Thai! I figured with my Cha Baa obsession I wouldn't be able to appreciate anything…More »
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