The Metro Vancouver Retail Thread - Page 808

connect2source · #**16141** Posted **May 30, 2022, 12:41 PM**

V3 Vape Store opened, south side 1100 block Robson. Actually a pretty attractive build-out.

dreambrother808 · #**16142** Posted **May 30, 2022, 6:01 PM**

Better a vape store than an empty storefront.

manny_santos · #**16143** Posted **May 30, 2022, 7:50 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

I read a while ago that Baskin Robins was making a comeback and expanding, I know they are very popular in Korea.

Anyway Guildford TC is getting a BR.

2022-05-22_08-45-23 by snub_you, on Flickr

I can't remember the last time I saw a new BR, anywhere in Canada.

manny_santos · #**16144** Posted **May 30, 2022, 7:51 PM**

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Originally Posted by SpongeG

Can you rent movies out of red box here? I've never seen any of those here but down in Bellingham they are outside a lot of stores.

If I recall correctly Red Box pulled out of Canada about 5-6 years ago.

I remember they were in Ontario back around 2013, several years after Netflix expanded its streaming service into Canada.

NewfBC · #**16145** Posted **May 30, 2022, 8:37 PM**

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Originally Posted by manny_santos

I can't remember the last time I saw a new BR, anywhere in Canada.

Tsawwassen Mills.

Ron.

officedweller · #**16146** Posted **May 30, 2022, 11:38 PM**

It'll be in the former Granville Gifts / Royal Canadian Mint location next to Sleep Country.

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Originally Posted by whatnext

Interesting that a big candy store will be opening on the Granville Strip. I wish them luck, it will be nice to have the variety along there.

[I]New sweet shop in downtown Vancouver could be 'the biggest candy store in B.C.'
It's going to be right on the Granville strip
Brendan Kergin
2 days ago

whatnext · #**16147** Posted **May 30, 2022, 11:42 PM**

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Originally Posted by dreambrother808

Better a vape store than an empty storefront.

That should be Vancouver's commercial real estate motto.

Conrad Yablonski · #**16148** Posted **May 31, 2022, 12:13 AM**

The End of an Era in Kitsilano

Young Bros Produce 3100 block W Broadway has changed hands and the new store is nothing like the overstuffed chaotic bargain bin of old.

SpongeG · #**16149** Posted **May 31, 2022, 12:42 AM**

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Originally Posted by manny_santos

I can't remember the last time I saw a new BR, anywhere in Canada.

there is one in Langley/Surrey near HMart on Fraser Highway and there is one inside a convenience store in Surrey on 152 and 64th.

152 location

svlt · #**16150** Posted **May 31, 2022, 3:48 AM**

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Originally Posted by connect2source

V3 Vape Store opened, south side 1100 block Robson. Actually a pretty attractive build-out.

Seriously what is with all these vape stores and their pretty sophisticated retail designs... very eye catching and appealing and yet not at all mass-market. It almost makes me want to go in even though I haven't been a user in well over 20 years. Maybe that's the point

I'm more griping about how other storefronts can't seem to match their level of aesthetic, for sure I am glad that if it has to be a vape store, they almost universally look great.

Vin · #**16151** Posted **May 31, 2022, 4:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by svlt

Seriously what is with all these vape stores and their pretty sophisticated retail designs... very eye catching and appealing and yet not at all mass-market. It almost makes me want to go in even though I haven't been a user in well over 20 years. Maybe that's the point

I'm more griping about how other storefronts can't seem to match their level of aesthetic, for sure I am glad that if it has to be a vape store, they almost universally look great.

Vape is simply cigarette/tobacco packaged for the new generation. There must be a lot of investors behind this betting on addiction. Babies love pacifiers for a reason: oral fixation is human nature many find tough to outgrow of.

Same explanation for why there are tons of new pot shops.

s211 · #**16152** Posted **May 31, 2022, 5:40 PM**

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Wonder Harry Rosen will keep the Tsawwassen Mills location open with that going in there.

The chatter I'm hearing is that the new Mills owner could be in for a rude awakening, as many of the initial five year leases are coming to an end. For me, if that's correct then I'd expect that Rosen at Mills is not much longer for this world.

SpongeG · #**16153** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 1:28 AM**

the Harry Rosen is very small, it's next to Aritzia. Maybe 1/3 the size of the Mills location.

jollyburger · #**16154** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 5:58 AM**

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Originally Posted by s211

The chatter I'm hearing is that the new Mills owner could be in for a rude awakening, as many of the initial five year leases are coming to an end. For me, if that's correct then I'd expect that Rosen at Mills is not much longer for this world.

I don't think that they are that stupid to not have any due diligence. Seems like they want to build housing.

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With its lower sales revenue per square foot and massive paved parking lots, expect a development proposal in the near future for a mixed use development that concentrates on higher form housing on the Tsawwassen Mills megamall site.

https://viewpointvancouver.ca/2022/05/19...nsferred-to-chinese-development-company/

jollyburger · #**16155** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 6:06 AM**

Is Zennkai closing down? Their downtown, south Granville and Kits locations are all up for lease.

officedweller · #**16156** Posted **Jun 1, 2022, 6:23 AM**

Opinion: Retailer Simons returns from the brink of bankruptcy to resume expansion to Halifax
https://timetotimes.com/opinion-retailer...nkruptcy-to-resume-expansion-to-halifax/

"Rumor has it that Simons is looking for locations in downtown Toronto and Vancouver."