Downtown Millers Shoes opens larger store in the suburbs

[miketoronto]

I was watching Channel 11 News today, because they had an update on two way streets coming to downtown Hamilton.

Anyway one of the commercials was about Millers Shoes on downtown James Street, opening a new location on Hamilton Mountain. And of course they mentioned that the Hamilton Mountain location will carry childrens shoes, but not downtown.

I do not know their intentions. But talk about giving people no reason to go downtown, if you offer the better store in the suburbs. I don't know if they want to kill their downtown location or not. But the question even needs to be raised, why they need a second location only 10min from their James Street North branch.

This is how many stores in American cities killed off their downtown stores. Seems our stores have still not gotten the message.

Anyway it was just interesting to see that commercial, adn the praise for the new location.

[SteelTown]

The previous owner used to own a store on Concession Street, forget the name. He decided to move to Upper James even after being on Concession Street for years. It turned out to be a bad move a year later as he went bankrupt. Miller came in and bought the shoe store and made a Millers shoe store for the Mountain. This probably happened about two years ago. Old news.

I don't think the Millers shoe store on the Mountain makes all that much profit anyways.

[matt602]

The James St. North store is still the main store. The second store was just expansion.

[fastcarsfreedom]

This is a story about a local business prospering/expanding/doing well. Sometimes the tenor of this Forum is all about trying to squeeze arsenic from a perfectly good apple. I actually come back to Hamilton--among other reasons--to go to Millers--they have a good selection of the big boy sizes I'm forced to wear.