Winnipeg Retail

[rgalston]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

All City Modern Convenience Opens Monday at 12 noon! 223 McDermot St

Now there is a retail development I can get behind!

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by rgalston

Now there is a retail development I can get behind!

agreed wish i was intown for this o well

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

agreed wish i was intown for this o well

I will be taking a stroll over many a time myself.

[SpongeG]

ooh i wonder if they carry old dutch

[dsim249]

Originally Posted by rgalston

Now there is a retail development I can get behind!

What is it? Just a convenience store?

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by dsim249

What is it? Just a convenience store?

market and sandwitch shop i think its supost to be 24hr i can't remember

[SKYSTHELIMIT]

Stopped by the store(All City Modern Convenience) today on the way home from work. Nice little spot owned by Andrew Harwood from Toronto. Your standard fare for a convenience store but with fresh sandwiches prepared by the Tall Poppy (treated me to a brisket one, fantastic) Very cool interior and signage and very welcome to the neighborhood. Told him about this site so if you stop by Andrew say hi.

P.S There was a big rack of Old Dutch SpongeG.
P.P.S He would love all to stop on by so check it out!!

[vid]

Originally Posted by SpongeG

ooh i wonder if they carry old dutch

Libraries in this part of the country carry Old Dutch.

[1ajs]

Originally Posted by SKYSTHELIMIT

Stopped by the store(All City Modern Convenience) today on the way home from work. Nice little spot owned by Andrew Harwood from Toronto. Your standard fare for a convenience store but with fresh sandwiches prepared by the Tall Poppy (treated me to a brisket one, fantastic) Very cool interior and signage and very welcome to the neighborhood. Told him about this site so if you stop by Andrew say hi.

P.S There was a big rack of Old Dutch SpongeG.
P.P.S He would love all to stop on by so check it out!!

andrews a pritty cool chap glad to see hes involved with this endevor!

[SpongeG]

B&BW has just posted on facebook new stores

-Southecentre Mall in Calgary, Alberta
-Polo Park Mall in Winnipeg, Manitoba
-Champlain Place in Dieppe, New Brunswick

[cslusarc]

Originally Posted by drew

^ too little too late. Unfortunately, the bad opinions about Zellers formed over many years. The fact they cleaned it up in the last year or so is meaningless now.

One I felt that the River East K-Mart was quite shabby before it became a Zellers store. Some of the Zellers stores like Kildonan Place and Grant Park looked modern from day one when they opened. Where do you think Target will have its locations by 2015?

Someone mentioned a Power Centre at the intersection of PTH 59 and 101. (As I mentioned before in other posts.) My parents are one of the four property owners on the SW corner that intersection located within the RM of East St Paul. One property has been picked up by a developer, but since it is the closest to the North Perimeter Highway, most of it is located too close to both PTHs to put buildings on. The other three including my parents' lot is still on the market. I don't think that there will be any Big Box Retail on the North Perimeter Highway in East St Paul before 2020.

[Conrad]

Originally Posted by vid

Target's success is mostly its advertising and celebrity endorsements. It isn't much different than Zellers, it just sells itself better.

Target is WAY better than Zellers. Yes, Target has great marketing, but their product mix really is much better and their stores are cleaner and better organized. Zellers is like like a half-assed version of Target. I won't miss it.

[Winnipegger@Heart]

Exactly! I have been to Target Stores throughout the US, and the selection of products is amazing. As long as that model is used here, sales will blow the minds of the execs.

[Biff]

For people who are interested, the excavators have started eating the old Zeller's store on Henderson Hwy. It looks really strange seeing big gaping holes from the back and most of the store gone from the front. That area will look completely different in a year - new Chief Peguis Trail, new Safeway and Boston Pizza, newer CIBC, BMO and McDonalds.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by Winnipegger@Heart

Exactly! I have been to Target Stores throughout the US, and the selection of products is amazing. As long as that model is used here, sales will blow the minds of the execs.

I completely agree, that Target in the USA is a nice big box retailer. That said, as I believe you hinted at, it remains to be seen whether Target Canada will have a product offering anywhere near 100% identical to their American operations. Here's to hoping.

I'm no fan of Wal-Mart and London Drugs, though I do find Wal-Mart highly functional if not depressingly utilitarian. I suppose it is really splitting hairs on my part to mention the difference in vibe associated with various big box discount retailers. Nonetheless, I do like Giant Tiger. Cheap, Canadian, and organized.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Boreal

I completely agree, that Target in the USA is a nice big box retailer. That said, as I believe you hinted at, it remains to be seen whether Target Canada will have a product offering anywhere near 100% identical to their American operations. Here's to hoping.

I'm no fan of Wal-Mart and London Drugs, though I do find Wal-Mart highly functional if not depressingly utilitarian. I suppose it is really splitting hairs on my part to mention the difference in vibe associated with various big box discount retailers. Nonetheless, I do like Giant Tiger. Cheap, Canadian, and organized.

London Drugs is Canadian.

[Mininari]

Originally Posted by h0twired

London Drugs is Canadian.

100% Canadian-owned, headquartered in Richmond, BC.

I am eagerly awaiting this rumoured "polo park" location...(McNally?) but I wonder if maybe they're waiting on the IKEA development and to open there instead. The only LD in Winnipeg serves the east well enough, but there needs to be one somewhere in the west. Its a good store. They offer an interesting selection in their food / candy department.

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by Mininari

100% Canadian-owned, headquartered in Richmond, BC.

I am eagerly awaiting this rumoured "polo park" location...(McNally?) but I wonder if maybe they're waiting on the IKEA development and to open there instead. The only LD in Winnipeg serves the east well enough, but there needs to be one somewhere in the west. Its a good store. They offer an interesting selection in their food / candy department.

London Drugs would be PERFECT for the McNally Robinson location.

The only thing that I could see as being an issue would be if there was any ample space adjacent for warehouse/storage space.

[Mininari]

Yeah, thats a good point. They'd probably want a store-size similar (or larger) than the one at St. Vital, and would need some backroom space. How does the St. Vital store compare to the McNally space?

On another Polo Park note, is the former arena site redevelopment moving forward? There were rumours (confirmed?) that T&T superstore (another Vancouver-based, 100% canadian store) is going to open there as the main retail tenant. Is this project going forward? The office space has a tenant secured, no? Western Financial?

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by h0twired

London Drugs is Canadian.

Yessir, I'm aware, it's just expensive and I'm not the biggest fan of its product offerings. Giant Tiger, while also Canadian is much cheaper, and features more of what I'm looking for from my big box discount retailer. London Drugs is some weird Shoppers Drug-Mart, The Source, Sears hybrid. I don't know what to call it, but I am certainly no fan.