In 1928, a retail store was built in Winter Brook. Residents would buy their supplies for the winter months in bulk. Families usually bought a gallon of molasses, a one hundred-pound bag of flour and one hundred pounds of potatoes. Fishing and trapping supplies were bought from the merchants of St. John's. Today, many people work outside of the community while there are a few store-clerks and loggers that can work in Winter Brook.
Most residents are carpenters, teachers, office workers or labourers.
The people who usually work five days per week enjoy doing other activities on Saturdays. Some men go into the woods cutting logs and wood while others still enjoy going trapping and setting rabbit snares. This work is much easier today because of the new technologies. For example, now in the winter people use ski-doos and sleighs to haul wood and use trikes and trailers in the summer. Instead of walking, people now also use ski-doos and trikes to attend rabbit snares and traps.