With the ban on Sunday shopping now gone, the Nova Scotia Liquor Corp. is considering selling booze seven days a week.

The corporation is assessing the costs of opening on Sundays and the potential for making money, said Rick Perkins, vice-president of marketing.

“We’re trying to ascertain the level of staffing that would be required, the number of hours we’d be open, the number of stores that would be open,” he said.

Perkins said a decision is still several weeks away.

Nova Scotia used to ban stores with more than 4,000 square feet from opening on Sunday, but the government threw that law out after a Supreme Court ruling Oct. 4.

Now all stores are permitted to open any day of the year except for Remembrance Day, and they can set their own hours.

Convenience store owners, who fear competition from the grocery chains, have renewed their call for the right to sell wine and beer.

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