Canadian Retail Thread

[neilson]

Originally Posted by miketoronto

To be honest, this retail thread is pretty depressing. All that is ever posted is another store you can find in any other city in the world, opening in a Canadian city.

I really don't understand the hype or praise that the retail in Canadian cities is each day becoming even more of a carbon copy of our American neighbours or even European cousins.

To be Forever 21 opening in Toronto is a sad day, not a happy one. Because now that means when I go to the USA, there will be maybe two stores in the malls instead of three, that actually are different and remind me I am in another country.

It would be nice to see a retail thread in this Canada section that talks about the homegrown, unique business opening in our cities, instead of the multinational chains that do nothing for our cities.

Thats my little rant.

But don't you see? Canada's really just a middleman between Western European and American Cultures. You can call it your own, but really it's just a refined version of both sides of the Atlantic that you turned around and made your own.

[BlackRedGold]

Originally Posted by miketoronto

It would be nice to see a retail thread in this Canada section that talks about the homegrown, unique business opening in our cities, instead of the multinational chains that do nothing for our cities.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=129971

There you go. Now quit whining.

[SpongeG]

H&M opens May 10th in Calgary

[SSLL]

Aeropostale is also opening at Scarborough Town Centre, as their mall says. It's really really cheap. When's TO due for an A|X?

[neilson]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

H&M opens May 10th in Calgary

H&M isn't all it's cracked up to be.

When I want good quality cheap clothes, I go to Steve and Barry's.

www.steveandbarrys.com

Any buzz on the possibility of Canada getting some locations? As good as you all think H&M is, S&B stomps them.

[Jay in Cowtown]

Originally Posted by neilson

H&M isn't all it's cracked up to be.

When I want good quality cheap clothes, I go to Steve and Barry's.

www.steveandbarrys.com

Any buzz on the possibility of Canada getting some locations? As good as you all think H&M is, S&B stomps them.

Oh, probably 5 years from now... seems to be the timeline it takes to get any American franchise, hopefully sooner than later, I like S & B.

I hope to hell Bath & Body Works jumps the border soon... My wife drags me through those every time we're shopping in the States.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by Jay in Cowtown

I hope to hell Bath & Body Works jumps the border soon... My wife drags me through those every time we're shopping in the States.

Bath and Body Works is the welfare version of The Body Shop. They have a BBW in MOBILE ALABAMA for Christ's sake, but no Body Shop (when I lived in Mob I had to drive to Pensacola to get to a Body Shop). She's lucky we have so many Body Shops, not to mention Sephora and that fantastic Calgary invention, Quorra Apothecary. Friends from Toronto head straight there, to the 17th Ave one, on visits to Calgary.

[Jay in Cowtown]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

H&M opens May 10th in Calgary

Wow, what a terrible store imo, and people bought into the hype... it reminded me of the Stampede midway in there.

[204]

Finally....

Vancouver Apple Store Confirmed

After years of speculation on when and if a Vancouver (BC) Apple store would open, Sr. V-P Retail Ron Johnson told attendees of Thursday’s stockholders meeting that a store would be announced “soon.” In response to a question about a Vancouver store from the audience at the end of the meeting, Johnson replied, “Patience is a virtue, and your patience will be rewarded soon.” Early rumors placed an Apple store inside the multi-block Pacific Center shopping complex, but more recent tips put the store at the under-development Jameson House project on Hastings Street, just a block from the harbor

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by 204

Finally....

Vancouver Apple Store Confirmed

After years of speculation on when and if a Vancouver (BC) Apple store would open, Sr. V-P Retail Ron Johnson told attendees of Thursday’s stockholders meeting that a store would be announced “soon.” In response to a question about a Vancouver store from the audience at the end of the meeting, Johnson replied, “Patience is a virtue, and your patience will be rewarded soon.” Early rumors placed an Apple store inside the multi-block Pacific Center shopping complex, but more recent tips put the store at the under-development Jameson House project on Hastings Street, just a block from the harbor

This "cofirms" absolutely nothing. We've had a store "confirmed" in Calgary for a year now. Don't hold your breath.

[Policy Wonk]

The Apple Store at Chinook is dead for the forseeable future, Cadillac Fairview sent Apple packing over some pretty unreasonable demands they were making.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by Policy Wonk

The Apple Store at Chinook is dead for the forseeable future, Cadillac Fairview sent Apple packing over some pretty unreasonable demands they were making.

FUCK. Who was making the demands, Apple or CF?

[Plus15]

It was Apple that was being unreasonable. Chinook has a long list of stores wanting in...they just moved down the list. The space Apple was anticipated to take over (Reitman's) has been leased to BEBE women's wear. Yay.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Originally Posted by Plus15

Yay.

[CMD UW]

Originally Posted by miketoronto

To be honest, this retail thread is pretty depressing. All that is ever posted is another store you can find in any other city in the world, opening in a Canadian city.

I really don't understand the hype or praise that the retail in Canadian cities is each day becoming even more of a carbon copy of our American neighbours or even European cousins.

To be Forever 21 opening in Toronto is a sad day, not a happy one. Because now that means when I go to the USA, there will be maybe two stores in the malls instead of three, that actually are different and remind me I am in another country.

It would be nice to see a retail thread in this Canada section that talks about the homegrown, unique business opening in our cities, instead of the multinational chains that do nothing for our cities.

Thats my little rant.

Umm, there are plenty, and I mean PLENTY of small independent stores that exist in every city accross Canada. These stores compete very well against the larger corporate chains.

It's just that the chain stores get the press b/c of their notoriety.

[malek]

Honestly i don't see the point of an apple store... its not cheaper or anything and with no value added to the consumer. ( oooh look we have fancy tables ...)

You can buy your apple stuff just elsewhere and you'd be fine.

[Policy Wonk]

I don't understand mac users and their love for the Apple stores, the people who work there are some combination of the average mallrat type kids who work in every other store in the mall, and middle age equivilents of "Gil" from the Simpsons.

[West_aust]

Originally Posted by malek

Honestly i don't see the point of an apple store... its not cheaper or anything and with no value added to the consumer. ( oooh look we have fancy tables ...)

You can buy your apple stuff just elsewhere and you'd be fine.

only advantage i can see is that they have pretty much everything in stock, as opposed to many stores who carry only a limited number of items or variations and the rest will be ordered if you want them to.

[Rusty van Reddick]

Like it or not, having an Apple store is like having an Urban Outfitters or a Sephora or a Vespa dealership. It marks a cty as "cool." Calgary getting one was a claim to having arrived. It's that simple, like it or not.

[m0nkyman]

They can actually questions with an answer different than "I don't know, I don't have a mac...." which seems to be the stock answer everywhere else.