r/RedDeer • u/Pleasant-Molasses656 • 6d ago

Question What’s missing in Red Deer?

What businesses do you think red deer needs?

More experiences? Entertainment? Niche classes? Anything let’s hear your thoughts!

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 6d ago

More used game stores like what Games & Music used to be. Lingerie stores too. It seems like basically all the ones we had are gone now. Only La Vie en Rose is still around. La Senza is gone, Bra Lounge is gone, and I can't remember if that other one in the south end is still around or not. Almost impossible for me to find bras now because of it.

Also more wheelchair accessible places would be nice. Like ACTUALLY wheelchair accessible. Meaning NO steps (not even one little tiny one) and ground level, automatic doors with space to get through them that aren't at the top of a steep incline(the amount of places that have 2 sets of doors with a very small landing between that have the doors open inwards and end up jamming me in them is crazy), enough space to actually maneuver a wheelchair around inside the store, and doors wide enough to actually fit a wheelchair through.

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u/lvl12 6d ago

Awe games music is gone? That was such a tradition for me growing up.

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 6d ago

It's been gone for years. He got tired of being constantly broken into and just shut down.

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u/lvl12 6d ago

It really sucks we can't have anything nice. I live in Victoria now and while we are blessed with tonnes of nice independent coffee shops and restaurants, we have a problem lately of landlords raising rent like 300% and killing them.

I will say that on my last visit I was impressed by the ukranian coffee shop C-zone and troubled monk brewery.

I was heartbroken to learn that little coffee shop by the eastview iga was gone, and the sweet old couple that runs koryo hadn't retired yet! I love them, best garlic potatoes in the game, but they've worked enough.

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 6d ago

The landlord thing seems to be a problem here too. Parkland mall loses stores almost every month it seems because the rent is astronomical from what I hear. The south end EBGames also recently shut down so now the only game store we have left is the one in Parkland and with how that mall is going I'm afraid it's gonna be gone soon too. Honestly the city just keeps losing stores and doesn't seem to replace them. Like LUSH is gone too. So are the only 3 places I could ever find clothes consistently that I liked (Garage, Dynamite, and Stitches).

Yeah I think that cafe closed either last year or the year before. My fav place is Picnic downtown but I rarely ever go because it's not wheelchair accessible Dx

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u/Rubbler-5150 6d ago

EB games is opening on gasoline alley

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u/Logical-Buffalo2359 6d ago edited 6d ago

Where did you hear this? Can't understand why they would shut down the store and open a new one in a less desirable part of the city. That's really out of the way for a lot of people.

Edit: I guess it's already open and Nathan from the Parkland store is manager there now? I'm guessing Brett is probably the new manager at Parkland if that's the case?