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Originally Posted by BCTed
Sorry, another stretch.
The fact that the Hamilton location is corporately owned does not mean that it is anything more than a blip on the Starbucks Canada radar... the outlets are pretty well all corporately owned. The only real contact with head office is likely a field agent who checks up on the location.
The president of Starbucks Canada probably doesn't run in the same circle as most of these people, and I can't imagine that he/she would bring up the Hamilton location during cocktail hour. It's not as if he/she is about to say "Galen, our downtown Hamilton location has been a smashing success. You should throw a supermarket in there."
Anyway, Loblaws is a bad example because it already has a huge presence in Hamilton with all of the Fortinos stores. It is not as if the company has never heard of the town.
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either you're wasting our time again, or you've been holding out on us all this time if you have insider information about the behind-the-scenes goings on at these multinationals.
I personally have no clue (I assume Fastcars will be able to help me out here) what goes on, but one only needs to look at what happened to Queen West in TO several years back once Starbucks and a couple of other chains located on the once-trendy street. A few years later it was basically like an outdoor version of the Toronto Eaton Centre.
Pure coincidence??