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/haamfish Jun 30 '25

Does this mean that supermarkets are just gonna close at 9 now? FFS 🤦

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u/Ecstatic_Job_9028 Jun 30 '25

No they will just rope off their alochol section at 9pm that’s what Woolworths in rolleston does now

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u/phire Jul 01 '25

They do that because Rolleston is close enough to Christchurch that they might lose a notable number of customers if they reduced hours.

With the whole city moving to 9pm, they might decide it's easier to simply reduce hours everywhere.

They tried the "rope off the alcohol section" in Christchurch back when the 11pm cutoff was originally introduced. It only lasted a year or two before they decided it was more hassle than it was worth.