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.