Yeah, Nova Scotia only gave in when Pete Luckett ingeniously loopholed the "convenience stores can open Sunday, drugstores and supermarkets can't" law so hard it made the government look like idiots.

Simply put, he split his one supermarket up into sixish smaller legal entities, each one independently fitting under the rules for a convenience store (and all of them outsourcing their money-handling duties to the one store at the door that had no product but all the cash registers). As I recall the province dragged him into court but he won, because he was following the letter of the law precisely. It caused a slew of imitators, notably drugstores who'd just cordon off whatever floor space made them not a convenience store every Saturday evening (the rules were a description of what made a convenience store that could open Sundays, not a specific legal designation or a permanent state, so there was nothing stopping them from simply flagging X retail space as "not retail space" and just not selling the stuff in it on Sunday). It became so common the government had to relent.

Yeah, Nova Scotia only gave in when Pete Luckett ingeniously loopholed the "convenience stores can open Sunday, drugstores and supermarkets can't" law so hard it made the government look like idiots.

Simply put, he split his one supermarket up into sixish smaller legal entities, each one independently fitting under the rules for a convenience store (and all of them outsourcing their money-handling duties to the one store at the door that had no product but all the cash registers). As I recall the province dragged him into court but he won, because he was following the letter of the law precisely. It caused a slew of imitators, notably drugstores who'd just cordon off whatever floor space made them not a convenience store every Saturday evening (the rules were a description of what made a convenience store, not a specific legal state, so there was nothing stopping them from simply flagging X retail space as "not retail space" and just not selling the stuff in it on Sunday). It became so common the government had to relent.

Yeah, Nova Scotia only gave in when Pete Luckett ingeniously loopholed the "convenience stores can open Sunday, drugstores and supermarkets can't" law so hard it made the government look like idiots.

Simply put, he split his one supermarket up into sixish smaller legal entities, each one independently fitting under the rules for a convenience store (and all of them outsourcing their money-handling duties to the one store at the door that had no product but all the cash registers). As I recall the province dragged him into court but he won, because he was following the letter of the law precisely. It caused a slew of imitators, notably drugstores who'd just cordon off whatever floor space made them not a convenience store (the rules were a description of what made a convenience store, not a specific legal state, so there was nothing stopping them from simply flagging X retail space as "not retail space" and just not selling the stuff in it on Sunday) every Sunday. It became so common the government had to relent.

Yeah, Nova Scotia only gave in when Pete Luckett ingeniously loopholed the "convenience stores can open Sunday, drugstores and supermarkets can't" law so hard it made the government look like idiots.

Simply put, he split his one supermarket up into sixish smaller legal entities, each one independently fitting under the rules for a convenience store (and all of them outsourcing their money-handling duties to the one store at the door that had no product but all the cash registers). As I recall the province sued him but he won, because he was following the letter of the law precisely. It caused a slew of imitators, notably drugstores who'd just cordon off whatever floor space made them not a convenience store (the rules were a description of what made a convenience store, not a specific legal state, so there was nothing stopping them from simply flagging X retail space as "not retail space" and just not selling the stuff in it on Sunday) every Sunday. It became so common the government had to relent.

Yeah, Nova Scotia only gave in when Pete Luckett ingeniously loopholed the "convenience stores can open Sunday, drugstores and supermarkets can't" law so hard it made the government look like idiots.

Simply put, he split his one supermarket up into sixish smaller legal entities, each one independently fitting under the rules for a convenience store (and all of them outsourcing their money-handling duties to the one store at the door that had no product but all the cash registers). As I recall they sued him but he won, because he was following the letter of the law precisely. It caused a slew of imitators, notably drugstores who'd just cordon off whatever floor space made them not a convenience store (the rules were a description of what made a convenience store, not a specific legal state, so there was nothing stopping them from simply flagging X retail space as "not retail space" and just not selling the stuff in it on Sunday) every Sunday. It became so common the government had to relent.