Posted Mar 8, 2007, 5:13 PM
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Don't quote me verbatim on this, but I do believe they have inroads to the core clients or manufacturers of certain athletic apparel. For example, River City Sports, as far as I know, outside of the existing CFL franchises in terms of their stores (take Bomber Store for example), is the only company that can get product on the same day the franchises receive it. Thus, there is no delay. On site customization is something they do, and is actually quite rare acmongst specialty sporting good store retailers. Most ship away. Heck, even places like "Bomber Store" ship away their custom ordered stitching. They only do the screen press at location. For anything you wish to order that they don't stock, things that you, for as best as I know, can't get your hands on anywhere else in the praries, they can have it shipped to you mighty fast (not sure if that applies to anybody outside of Winnipeg, as it has to be picked up at location). My working knowledge of River City Sports admittedly is not the greatest, but from an arms-length, through the grapevine means, I would rank it at or near the top. Certainly light years ahead of places like Jersey City ...Centre 1 Sports (is that what it is in Toronto?) is great, but doesn't carry the wide range of stuff River City does. For example, we're talking everything from throwback Isaih Rider T-Wolves - East Bay Funk Dunk stuff, to Mike Weir at Augusta National, to Roger Federer at Arthur Ashe Stadium ...you can get a piece of it all there.
This is all not to say that nothing on par exists, but at least from my travels and as an avid sports fan, what I hear from sports fans across the country via the internet, River City Sports has a glistening reputation.
Hopefully that answers your question. If not, I apologize.
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