Primark equivalent in Canada
Jul 28th 2019, 1:40 pm
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Re: Primark equivalent in Canada
What would dis-allow them? The GT business model requires low rent in areas where they can get a decent share of the market. If they can't put enough stores in proximity in the right place, it won't be economical to deliver merchandise to them. Their expansion to over 240 stores was helped by Target and Sears shutting down, but there's still a lot of competition out there. A smaller city in BC that already has 2 big grocery stores, a dollar store, Mark's Work Wearhouse and a Bargain Shop or Red Apple isn't going to look promising from a profit perspective, and so won't appeal to potential franchise buyers.
Jul 28th 2019, 1:51 pm
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They have opened shops in the US...Canada will probably follow as H&M did. It’s just a question of time.
Jul 28th 2019, 3:59 pm
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I don't know. But when you look at their stores on the map and see them all the way across Canada from NS and PEI (but not Newfoundland) in every province and they suddenly stop in Alberta it just looks a bit funny. Almost as if there might be a reason like business practice frowned upon by the province. Or some sort of business tax that makes GT want to stay away.
Moncton's not that big, we have those (although I don't know what Red Apple is) and GT recently opened up a second store here. Fredericton has two and one just outside.
Hard to believe nowhere in BC compares to the places hosting 240 stores. Perhaps they expanded outwards and just haven't reached BC yet.
Ooh...despite there being no GT locations in BC, it appears there is one after all in Cranbrook.
A smaller city in BC that already has 2 big grocery stores, a dollar store, Mark's Work Wearhouse and a Bargain Shop or Red Apple isn't going to look promising from a profit perspective, and so won't appeal to potential franchise buyers.
Hard to believe nowhere in BC compares to the places hosting 240 stores. Perhaps they expanded outwards and just haven't reached BC yet.
Ooh...despite there being no GT locations in BC, it appears there is one after all in Cranbrook.
Jul 28th 2019, 4:18 pm
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Re: Primark equivalent in Canada
I don't know. But when you look at their stores on the map and see them all the way across Canada from NS and PEI (but not Newfoundland) in every province and they suddenly stop in Alberta it just looks a bit funny. Almost as if there might be a reason like business practice frowned upon by the province. Or some sort of business tax that makes GT want to stay away
https://www.thestar.com/business/201...tors-fade.html
Jul 28th 2019, 4:33 pm
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Re: Primark equivalent in Canada
There are now Giant Tigers in every Canadian province except British Columbia and Newfoundland and Labrador. There are Giant Tiger stores in Scarborough, Mississauga and Brampton, and the chain would not rule out a downtown Toronto presence — in a neighbourhood with the right demographics and the right rent, Haig says.“Given the right financial model, we would definitely consider it”
Jul 28th 2019, 6:43 pm
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The Giant Tiger that was in Cranbrook closed in winter 2012, it was as far as I know the only store they had in BC.
We do have some Red Apple stores in BC, but all in small towns/city's and none in the lower mainland from what I can see on their website.
We do have some Red Apple stores in BC, but all in small towns/city's and none in the lower mainland from what I can see on their website.
Jul 28th 2019, 8:06 pm
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The market in Metro Vancouver, including Surrey, is really aimed at the young wealthy free-spending.
It's amazing to watch what is going on at the local malls ................ the stores that do not appeal to any other market are slowly disappearing and being replaced by stores such as Aritzia, Coach, etc etc. All upmarket, and aimed at small sizes.
Tommy Bananas is hanging in at our nearest mall, but then that all is undergoing massive renovation and expansion with very expensive residential towers to be built all around it.
Walmart, Winners, are really the only places ............... and a friend who shopped at Walmart always warned me to look very carefully if I bought any "sets" there, eg, shirt and shorts sets, as she had found top didn't always match the bottom!
It's amazing to watch what is going on at the local malls ................ the stores that do not appeal to any other market are slowly disappearing and being replaced by stores such as Aritzia, Coach, etc etc. All upmarket, and aimed at small sizes.
Tommy Bananas is hanging in at our nearest mall, but then that all is undergoing massive renovation and expansion with very expensive residential towers to be built all around it.
Walmart, Winners, are really the only places ............... and a friend who shopped at Walmart always warned me to look very carefully if I bought any "sets" there, eg, shirt and shorts sets, as she had found top didn't always match the bottom!
Jul 28th 2019, 8:20 pm
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Also Jimmy Choo store on Alberni - whenever I go past to get to my bank and look across, there is only every shop assistants in there!
Jul 28th 2019, 10:51 pm
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We have an Old Navy and a Marshalls opening soon...I've never been in them?
Jul 28th 2019, 11:27 pm
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Ever been to a Winner's? Marshalls is pretty much the same, they also have the same parent company TJX Companies who also owns TK Maxx which is apparently found in the UK and other countries outside North America. along with Home Sense and some other stores.
Jul 29th 2019, 12:12 am
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Jul 29th 2019, 2:17 pm
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Hi bats!
Jul 29th 2019, 2:40 pm
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Re: Primark equivalent in Canada
Goods can be returned to any of the stores in that country no matter which one they were purchased from.
Jul 29th 2019, 4:41 pm
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Re: Primark equivalent in Canada
Winners maybe the same owners as TKMaxx..layout is similar but definitely not the same nor is the stock either..clothing taste in the UK is different to Canada so stock wouldn't be the same..anyway i find Primark work shirts unbelievable value at a fiver and they last yonks as do the same from Matalan though a bit more expensive..i buy my work clothes in Canada thus.. trousers i get from H&M ..work shirts i get from Simons