Jingle All The Way To The Broadview Danforth BIA

Check out the full list of prizes below!

Jingle All The Way To The Broadview Danforth BIA

The Danforth Music Hall and Maple Leafs Sports Entertainment

- Two Golden Ticket passes. Each pass entitles the winner to two tickets to a show of their choosing in 2025
- Four tickets to the upcoming PWHL Toronto Sceptres hockey game on Friday Dec 27, 2024

Papyrus Restaurant

- Two $50 gift cards

Sher E Punjab Restaurant

- $60 gift card

The Auld Spot Pub

- $60 gift card

SideBar Restaurant

- $50 gift card

Epochal Imp

- One $50 gift card
- 4 curated prize packages as follows:
COFFEE FOR TWO
- Gift basket includes
- 2 Klieban Christmas coffee mugs
- 1 French press coffee pot
- 1lb rhapsody coffee beans
- 1/2 dozen home baked cookies
COMEDY AT THE IMP
- 2 Tickets for Blacksheep Comedies “TESTING: ATTENTION PLEASE” (tickets for January 3rd or February 7th)
- Plus a $25 Gift card
BINGO AT THE IMP
- 4 tickets to Bingo
- Either Music or Retro in January Or February
- Plus a $50 Gift Card
BUILD YOUR OWN WREATH
- Join us before Christmas to make your own wreath $75 value

Kitchenette

- One curated gift basket

Quality Optical

- Two gift cards $125 each

Shopper’s Drug Mart

- One $100 gift card

Fresh Florals

- Festive Grinch Tree – a Holiday Tradition

Gela-Teo-Café

- Ten prizes – One pint of gelato per winner

Small Wonders Pets

- $25 gift card

Women’s Health Centre

- $25 gift card

dZouk Brazilian Dance Centre

- Beginner Brazilian Zouk Dance Course for 2 – valid through 2025

Danforth Art Studio

- Gift certificate for 4 to attend a workshop

Der Dietemann Antiques

- $100 in BIA dollars – can be used at any business within the BIA

Alexander Technique Studio

- Gift Certificate for one introductory course
Monday, 07 February 2022 09:45

Toronto store moves to four-day work week and says they'll never go back

Toronto store moves to four-day work week and says they'll never go back Marlin Spring

Check out this great article from BlogTO, published on Feb 6, 2022 by Amy Carlberg:

A Toronto store has said they'll never go back after shifting to a four-day work week due to lockdowns.

Pet store Small Wonders reduced their hours almost immediately when lockdowns first began in 2020, but they never could have predicted where it would lead.

The store was originally open seven days a week for 10 hours a day, and and reduced hours to being open for six days a week for eight hours a day in March 2020, closing on Sundays.

"On again off again restrictions for the past two years, as well as people working from home or not working at all, made it possible to reduce hours because customers could shop during hours they weren't able to," Small Wonders owner Keiley Routledge tells blogTO.

The pet store never had to close entirely throughout lockdowns as they were deemed essential from the start, though Routledge still felt the impact of them like other small businesses. She credits the survival of the business to a devoted customer base and the pets people started buying to keep themselves company.

By this point, the reduced hours mean that nobody works more than four days a week, the number of staff per shift reduced too.

"Reducing staff hours does not mean reducing staff salaries," says Routledge.

"Working retail during COVID times is extremely stressful, due to many factors. Hours were reduced, but salaries remained the same."

She emphasizes that communication with both her staff and her customers has been key in reducing hours and moving to the four-day week.

"Our customers have become used to our reduced hours. We've tried to remain in communication with them via many avenues, including social media, as things changed," says Routledge.

"Reduced working hours have allowed our staff to take better care of themselves and their families. A four-day work week allows them to de-stress and look after their mental health. Productivity has not been affected in the least."

The customers that have supported Small Wonders in the move have outnumbered the ones they've lost due to the reduced hours. While they can't predict when they might consider expanding hours again while everything is still so uncertain, they're pretty sure they'll never go back to a seven-day retail week.

"It's simply more civilized," says Routlege. "People tend to forget that while they may be able to enjoy weekends, retail has become a seven-day-a-week expectation. Maybe it's time we all learned to step back, take a breath, and respect our fellow humans."

The store has also still not reopened for in-store shopping, sticking with a curbside pickup model for now. They're hoping to do a modified reopening in a few weeks, mostly so their store cat can get used to customers and dogs entering the store again.

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