Shopping
The island's main shopping area is called the Driftwood Centre. The Driftwood has grown over the years, and is now home to Tru Value Foods, Pender Island Bakery, Pender Sushi, a BC Liquor Store, Pender Island Pharmacy, HSBC, a post office, Pender Island Realty, Angeline's Hair Studio, Talisman Bookstore and Gallery, Revolution Fitness, Time to Play, Raeven Tool Rentals, Pender Island Cellars (U-Vin), an insurance office and House on Pender (a flower and tile shop).
The stores at Hope Bay are about a five minute drive from the Driftwood Centre. Hope Bay is home to the Red Tree Gallery (featuring local art), Sladen's, Hope Bay Hair Salon, Touch of Wellness Massage Therapy, Dockside Realty, a cafe and a Goldsmith Shop. Hope Bay Studio is a rental hall with large windows looking directly at an astounding ocean view. Regular classes include yoga, Dance, Bellyfit, Art and various workshops. This space is available to rent from Dockside Realty.
Just North of Hope Bay is Southridge Farms Organic Foods, a grocery store featuring fresh Paninis and Coffee. Across the street is Home Hardware, the local building center and lumber yard.
On Saturday mornings from Easter through Thanksgiving, the Farmer's Market at the Community Hall offers local produce and handcrafts, as well as entertainment. The Nu-To-Yu is a local second-hand store open Friday and Saturday throughout the year.
Morning Bay Vineyard on Pender Island is open for wine tasting and sales 12 months a year. Friday to Sunday in winter, and Wednesday to Sunday in Summer, Morning Bay sells estate-grown wines as well as a line of wines made from Okanagan fruit.
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Famous quotes containing the word shopping:
“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women’s lives. You never saw men milling around in men’s departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)
“If Los Angeles has been called “the capital of crackpots” and “the metropolis of isms,” the native Angeleno can not fairly attribute all of the city’s idiosyncrasies to the newcomer—at least not so long as he consults the crystal ball for guidance in his business dealings and his wife goes shopping downtown in beach pajamas.”
—For the State of California, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
“The most important fact about our shopping malls, as distinct from the ordinary shopping centers where we go for our groceries, is that we do not need most of what they sell, not even for our pleasure or entertainment, not really even for a sensation of luxury. Little in them is essential to our survival, our work, or our play, and the same is true of the boutiques that multiply on our streets.”
—Henry Fairlie (1924–1990)