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[HB]

I was here a couple days ago just for a change from my regular hangout across the street.
The place is full of Hispters plunking away on their MacBooks while taking up a complete section but no coffees in hand. I guess that Moka house is Ok with this because they are making up the loss of revenue by over charging regular customers.


I ordered a coffee and a lemon bar.

The coffee is $ 2.20
The lemon bar is $2.81


I pay and find a lonely stool at the bar in the Hipster section surrounded by macbooks.

I look at my receipt and see they have charged $3.10 for the lemon bar.

After 10 minutes of eating the bar slurping back my caffeine and listening to students talking about their great buy on over priced lululemon pants, I head for the door but not before a detour to the counter to enquire about the price.

The Emo girl at the counter has no idea what I am talking about even after I showed her the price in the display case.
She directs me to her barista queen co-workers who gets it but informs me taht the price never got changed after the HST removal and she suggested thet that prices were going to remain the same as before the HSt removal blah blah blah.

I dont care too much about the extra 29 cents plus tax I paid but what I do care about is that if you are going to post prices post the correct prices.

I explained to her that over the course of the day if they sell everything in their display case at more than what the price says them they are making a good profit at the expense of customers who do not ask for a receipt those who can not do math

Her explanation about the price cards and the lame excuse about the tax changed the prices on teh items do not add up and when pushed for a non-confusing answer she said the owner would be able to explain it better but would be in till next day.

[Sparky]

You got ripped off by over 10% by someone that goes by the name of Day Day.

That's just plain wrong.

[Matt R.]

Why is there still PST on that bill?

Matt.

[VicHockeyFan]

You got ripped off by over 10% by someone that goes by the name of Day Day.

That's just plain wrong.

Wrong that they named their child Day, when their surname was Day?

[weirdie]

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The place is full of Hispters plunking away on their MacBooks...

I pay and find a lonely stool at the bar in the Hipster section...

After 10 minutes of eating the bar slurping back my caffeine and listening to students talking about their great buy on over priced lululemon pants...

The Emo girl at the counter...

She directs me to her barista queen co-workers..

You know, I may have actually cared about this horrible situation that you were subjected to if you weren't so unnecessarily insulting and condescending.

[HB]

So I asked Moka House what they are doing with all if the PST money they are collecting illegally and have been for about 3 weeks now and they say they didn't know they were collecting PST even though it is on reveipts again today

I wonder how a business owner could not know this is happening would it not show up when they close out each day??


Oh and sorry to the above poster for the pointed remarks from the other day there were people with PC s in there too not just MacBooks

[gumgum]

Another horticultural fatality in the village. One of the drivers of one of those Insituform trucks working in the village drove into 80 year old chestnut and damaged it so much that they are now in the midst of cutting it down.
Argh!!!

[Mike K.]

That's really too bad. Just out of curiosity when a public tree (well a tree on public land at least) is cut down, what happens to the wood?

[sebberry]

On CTV news today (where I swore I saw our very own VHF stroll in front of the camera) they mentioned that the tree was rotting badly inside. However they did believe it had another 15 years.

[VicHockeyFan]

On CTV news today (where I swore I saw our very own VHF stroll in front of the camera)

Indeed, I did. Major faux pas (a socially awkward or tactless act). I heard about it from a few others.

[Linear Thinker]

Depending on the tree and the circumstances, the VIWG is contacted for first refusal.

That's really too bad. Just out of curiosity when a public tree (well a tree on public land at least) is cut down, what happens to the wood?

[gumgum]

2 units down from Rainbird on Sutlej in the Essencia building.

[Mike K.]

A nail salon is apparently opening in the space where Fairfield Book Shop is currently located. Last week the owners indicated that the book shop was closing, as mentioned by Jill in the business comings and goings thread.

 

Someone has written us to say that they've spoken with the owner and the book shop sold, but is being converted into a nail salon.

[Jill]

Did that frozen yogurt place ever open?

[VicHockeyFan]

Did that frozen yogurt place ever open?

 

No, or it came and went.  Not there now.

[Jason-L]

Qoola... pretty sure as a competitor to Booster Juice it wasn't supposed to open in the first place.

[ZGsta]

Qoola was there for a little while (maybe over a year). Went there a couple times.

[Barra]

That's really too bad. Just out of curiosity when a public tree (well a tree on public land at least) is cut down, what happens to the wood?

They call woodworker groups to come get it.

[Citified.ca]

Thanks to Kapten Kapsell for the heads-up!

 

Cook Street Village liquor store on the move to former RBC bank branch

http://victoria.citi...bc-bank-branch/

[Awaiting Juno]

We were wondering what was going to happen there - although it seems a bit "under-developed" to just have a single story retail location there.