Canadian Retail Thread - Page 221

Pinion · #**4401** Posted **Jun 12, 2016, 4:17 PM**

Giant Tiger doesn't have a single store in BC.

jmt18325 · #**4402** Posted **Jun 12, 2016, 6:00 PM**

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Originally Posted by casper

Warehouse Club (Loblaws wholesale outlet) here in Victoria will only accept MasterCard but not Visa.

I believe Costco does one but not the other.

Costco only accepts MasterCard - because they have their own.

esquire · #**4403** Posted **Jun 12, 2016, 8:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by kwoldtimer

Maybe they're just bargaining. Walmart has a unique ability to throw its weight around.

I think you're probably right. Visa officials were quoted in a CBC story as saying that Walmart already pays lower fees than just about every merchant in Canada. I'm not sure exactly how true that is, but clearly a merchant on Walmart's scale has a lot more sway than most businesses when it comes to setting the terms as to how relationships with payment processors will work.

I'm not sure Visa can afford to lose them... something will give.

casper · #**4404** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 6:34 AM**

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Originally Posted by Pinion

Giant Tiger doesn't have a single store in BC.

In BC we have Field's. Not quite a Giant Tiger but very similar.

http://www.fields.ca/

WhipperSnapper · #**4405** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 1:07 PM**

I remember Giant Tiger being equivalent to a Biway, Bargain Harhold's, Bargain Shop. All eventually floundered after scaling up to a certain level.

Of course, times have changed. Walmart's success is to its real time data processing. That should be easier to implement now than 25 to 30 years ago.

kwoldtimer · #**4406** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 1:13 PM**

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Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

I remember Giant Tiger being equivalent to a Biway, Bargain Harhold's, Bargain Shop. All eventually floundered after scaling up to a certain level.

Of course, times have changed. Walmart's success is to its real time data processing. That should be easier to implement now than 25 to 30 years ago.

I would place Giant Tiger a notch above the others you have named - especially in their remodelled format, it seems to sit just below Walmart. Since many of the (non-dollar store) lower-end shops have gone out of business, GT seems to have a niche more or less to itself.

MolsonExport · #**4407** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 5:08 PM**

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MolsonExport · #**4408** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 5:11 PM**

Reposted for old times' sake.
SAAN, the strange retailing beast of tertiary/quaternary cities and towns. Of course there was also Fields, Bi-way, The Bargain!! Shop, and V&S (which I liked to call the versus store). They all vaguely smelled like mothballs. None of which I recall seeing in Quebec while growing up.

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She swings both ways.

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Edit: apparently V&S did (and still does) operate in La Belle Province.

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esquire · #**4409** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 5:26 PM**

^ Not sure if it's still part of the corporate family, but Fields was for a good while part of HBC. It basically felt like a mini Zellers, with more or less the same kinds of products on offer except a little more downscale.

lubicon · #**4410** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 6:23 PM**

No Visa = no more Walmart for me.

flipv · #**4411** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 6:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by lubicon

No Visa = no more Walmart for me.

You're definitely in the minority there! It will be interesting to see how the big banks respond as they're predominantly visa issuers. Bmo must be getting increased CC business due to the MC Costco tie up and they are coincidentally (whether or not through causation isn't called out) but news like these really do bellwether what issuer(and bank) can get the most revolving credit business

esquire · #**4412** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 6:28 PM**

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Originally Posted by lubicon

No Visa = no more Walmart for me.

Are you kidding? One of the best things about Walmart is that I can buy cheap groceries there and pay for them with American Express. The SPG American Express gets you some very nice rewards

Taeolas · #**4413** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 6:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Reposted for old times' sake.
SAAN, the strange retailing beast of tertiary/quaternary cities and towns. Of course there was also Fields, Bi-way, The Bargain!! Shop, and V&S (which I liked to call the versus store). They all vaguely smelled like mothballs. None of which I recall seeing in Quebec while growing up.

I worked at this store during High School back when it was the Met store. If you don't count the one in Houlton, Woodstock, NB didn't have a Walmart until 2000-ish, so the Met was the town's main department store. (Especially once Dolphins and Stedmens closed downtown). IIRC. According to Wiki, SAAN bought up the MMG group (that owned The Met stores in the East) in '97 which is around when I remember the name was changed (a few years after I left for university). Walmart opened up within a few years of that.

Now, that end of the mall is a Brick store and a HART store.

KnoxfordGuy · #**4414** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 7:03 PM**

I remember shopping at the SAAN in Woodstock, NB with my mom when I was a little kid and a teen! We always went in for a hamburger and fries and shopping. Their beef gravy was like molasses hahahaha

MolsonExport · #**4415** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:05 PM**

I shopped at the Stedman's V&S in Osoyoos quite regularly (there wasn't much in the way of alternatives in town), but I see it has closed:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.03289...8i6656!6m1!1e1

Shitty's house of pancraps is still around: https://www.google.ca/maps/@49.03267...8i6656!6m1!1e1

lubicon · #**4416** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by esquire

Are you kidding? One of the best things about Walmart is that I can buy cheap groceries there and pay for them with American Express. The SPG American Express gets you some very nice rewards

Not kidding. Why would I bother getting another credit card when I have several already that suit my needs. Walmart's choice to make it more difficult for me to give them my money makes it an easy choice for me to decide where to spend my money from now on.

Pretty easy decision to make.

kirjtc2 · #**4417** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:24 PM**

For a while in Fredericton we had Rossy. Just like all the others but the signs were in French.

esquire · #**4418** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:27 PM**

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Originally Posted by lubicon

Not kidding. Why would I bother getting another credit card when I have several already that suit my needs. Walmart's choice to make it more difficult for me to give them my money makes it an easy choice for me to decide where to spend my money from now on.

Pretty easy decision to make.

Do they really suit your needs if you can't/won't use them at Walmart?

Acajack · #**4419** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:32 PM**

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Originally Posted by kirjtc2

For a while in Fredericton we had Rossy. Just like all the others but the signs were in French.

I suppose you mean "bilingual"? French only signs would be quite a surprise in Fredericton.

BTW the Rossy family owns Dollarama.

kirjtc2 · #**4420** Posted **Jun 13, 2016, 8:46 PM**

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Originally Posted by Acajack

I suppose you mean "bilingual"? French only signs would be quite a surprise in Fredericton.

Yes, they were bilingual but I want to say the French was bigger. Obviously Quebec-issue.