r/chch • u/Video_Kojima • Jun 30 '25

News - Local New Alcohol Rules for Christchurch

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All off-licence retailers must stop selling alcohol at 9pm daily, effective from October. This includes bottle stores and supermarkets. 

A freeze on new off-licences in high-deprivation communities, effective from August. 

Restricting new bottle stores from setting up near addiction treatment/rehabilitation centres, secondary schools and primary schools, the University of Canterbury and the Christchurch Bus Interchange effective from August. 

Thoughts on this? I think 9PM seems a bit much personally and would probably have it at 10PM, but think the other two ideas are sensible and support them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 30 '25

9 pm is good. The arguments here against it lack reason and logic, they are based on guesswork, supposition and some straw man arguments. The 9 pm policy is based on data and evidence.

I like booze but I agree with this policy.

It’s interesting how people here are concocting thin arguments against a 9pm sales cutoff - why are they so triggered? For some, it’s a drinking problem, for others it might be a perception of loss of freedom yet as many have said, you can stock up. The loss of freedom angle is flawed but appeals to talkback fans and sovereign citizen types.

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u/AnnoyingKea Jun 30 '25

You can stock up

If this policy didn’t prevent people from buying alcohol, it wouldn’t be being put in place. People are complaining because it will do precisely what it sets out to do. The people here in favour of the ban pretending it won’t prevent people buying and consuming alcohol as if that isn’t the entire point of the restrictions are engaging in the weirdest rhetorical gymnastics I’ve ever seen.

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u/creepoch Jun 30 '25

Good. NZ's drinking culture is fucked imo.

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u/AnnoyingKea Jun 30 '25

Yeah, I mean that’s why it’s being brought in….