{"id":174430,"date":"2025-12-08T23:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174430\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T23:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T23:17:12","slug":"quebec-plans-to-expand-pilot-project-allowing-stores-to-stay-open-longer-on-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/174430\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec plans to expand pilot project allowing stores to stay open longer on weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/a\/assets\/texttospeech.svg\" alt=\"Text to Speech Icon\" width=\"44\" height=\"44\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Listen to this article<\/p>\n<p>Estimated 1 minute<\/p>\n<p>The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Quebec is taking steps to end a long-standing rule that forces most retail stores to close at 5 p.m. on weekends.<\/p>\n<p>Samuel Poulin, Quebec&#8217;s minister responsible for the economy and small and medium enterprises, says the province&#8217;s retailers need more flexibility to be able to compete with online sellers such as Shein and Temu.<\/p>\n<p>The province implemented a pilot project last year that allowed retailers in three cities to stay open until 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays, except for holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin says the government is proposing to expand that pilot across the province and allow retailers to be open until 9 p.m. seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p>He says Quebec is the only jurisdiction in North America that limits opening hours for stores, with exceptions that include grocery stores and pharmacies.<\/p>\n<p>Poulin says the proposed rules will be subject to a 45-day consultation period after they are published on Wednesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 1 minute The audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,111,139,69,147],"class_list":{"0":"post-174430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}