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Originally Posted by acottawa
That's 7 or 8 distribution centres you want to build. Which is hundreds of stores to have economies of scale comparable to existing chains. That basically requires a Target-like approach, and retailers are no doubt gun shy about trying to emulate Target.
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I don't want to build anything. If an Aldi/Lidl type retailer did though, they have several dense markets to dip into in Canada without betting the farm. That's my entire point. The Farm Boy brand is kicking ass in Southern Ontario now after starting out only in Eastern Ontario, for example. The Target failure is a really poor comparison to how a new multi-national grocer could test the Canadian market. That was the last gasp of an outmoded retail model.
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