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Originally Posted by casper
The North West Company is a weird beast. They view themselves more as a logistics company than a retailer. They own a small airline called North Star Air that flies cargo into a lot of remote communities. Weird strategy.
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I remember thinking that NWC was a quaint little local Winnipeg company, like some glorified social service that took it upon itself to stock small communities with food. But then one day I read in the paper that their CEO made some crazy-for-Winnipeg amount of money, like into the tens of millions of dollars, and I realized what a big business it was
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Originally Posted by Taeolas
My hometown, Woodstock, NB, had a SAAN for a while. It replaced the Met which was one of our department stores before Walmart finally moved in (we also had Stedmans and Dolphins when I was growing up, but the later two closed long before Walmart showed up).
SAAN lasted until about the turn of the century, then it closed up.
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Fun fact, SAAN was another Winnipeg company. Their owners had a giant warehouse in south Winnipeg which was one of the biggest buildings in the country when it was built. It is now occupied by a variety of tenants.
The owners of SAAN really cashed in by securing the rights to Sony products in Canada way back before Sony was a big thing. So they made crazy bank when Sony became a massive brand in the 70s and 80s.
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