Winnipeg Retail

[1ajs]

2 womens stores in portage place closed both origonal tents last week.

[RTD]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

2 womens stores in portage place closed both origonal tents last week.

And let me guess, they are going to replace them with another Dollar Store and Money Mart. Oh our beloved, thrifty downtown

[h0twired]

Originally Posted by RTD

And let me guess, they are going to replace them with another Dollar Store and Money Mart. Oh our beloved, thrifty downtown

Hopefully a store selling wolf t-shirts opens up.

It would be a great compliment to the current store that sells weed t-shirts.

[Pegger5]

Originally Posted by RTD

And let me guess, they are going to replace them with another Dollar Store and Money Mart. Oh our beloved, thrifty downtown

There are two dollar stores side by side in the downtown Eaton/Scotia Place downtown mall in Calgary... not all roses in Cowtown.. You should see the main downtown mall in Edmonton !

[swolfe]

Originally Posted by Pegger5

There are two dollar stores side by side in the downtown Eaton/Scotia Place downtown mall in Calgary... not all roses in Cowtown.. You should see the main downtown mall in Edmonton !

I'm not sure if you're saying Edmonton's mall is good or bad, but I was in their downtown mall this summer and it seemed pretty decent. Some major retailers (Sears, Winners, etc.) We ate in the food court and it was full of business people and no one seemed to be sitting around all day nursing a coffee.

[rgalston]

I was in The Bay yesterday myself. That store is slowly, painfully moving on a ricketty escalator to closed-ville; whole sections of the second floor are semi-vacant, nevermind the fourth, fifth, etc. The basement (aside from the still busy supermarket) look like a Logan Avenue discount-mart's going out of business sale, c.1980.

Very sad, since any amount of effort by the company could turn that place around, but they are obviously not looking at that.

But who cares? I hear that St. Ax and the U of W are looking for more space to house their new Sustainible Indigenous Accessibility Development department offices...

[Biff]

^^^ Barnes & Castle (Kitchenware) and Smart Set (Clothing)

[1ajs]

wait the kitchenware place closed doh

[JayM]

I'm not sure when Burger King closed but I am sure as hell that was there for like 20 some years..

[1ajs]

i remember a mcdonalds being there for a while though and a italian rest raunt across from it and mcnaly being next to it then moving a unit over and then moving down stairs... but if one wanted to see a dead mall get a time machean and go back to the 90's

[Pegger5]

Originally Posted by 1ajs

i remember a mcdonalds being there for a while though and a italian rest raunt across from it and mcnaly being next to it then moving a unit over and then moving down stairs... but if one wanted to see a dead mall get a time machean and go back to the 90's

Good thing then this is the year 2010.

[Kris22]

^^That sounds like a good plan. Zellers will surely do alright downtown. I just hope they keep the grocery store. Do Zellers have grocery sections? I don't think I've ever been to Zellers...there is never one near by me.

[hexrae]

The Polo location has a small, essentially non-perishables, only section. Definitely not a place one would go to buy groceries

[The Jabroni]

There are a lot of rumours spewing again about Wal-Mart renovating existing stores to the Supercentre format like they have in Ontario and Alberta, and wanting to do that within the next year. Can anyone bring light to this?

[newflyer]

Originally Posted by The Jabroni

There are a lot of rumours spewing again about Wal-Mart renovating existing stores to the Supercentre format like they have in Ontario and Alberta, and wanting to do that within the next year. Can anyone bring light to this?

If you mean Walmart Supercentres.. yes Walmart if proceeding to develop these store formats in Canada.

[dsim249]

Originally Posted by newflyer

If you mean Walmart Supercentres.. yes Walmart if proceeding to develop these store formats in Canada.

One underway in Saskatoon and one in Regina (I believe), they're not making all Wal-marts into Supercentres are they?

[newflyer]

Originally Posted by dsim249

One underway in Saskatoon and one in Regina (I believe), they're not making all Wal-marts into Supercentres are they?

No, not all, just a few where population can support it. Most will remain normal Walmarts.

[dennis]

Are there any plans for a Walmart Supercentre in Winnipeg?

[grumpy old man]

Originally Posted by newflyer

No, not all, just a few where population can support it. Most will remain normal Walmarts.

Heh heh is "normal Walmart" an oxymoron?

[The Jabroni]

Originally Posted by newflyer

No, not all, just a few where population can support it. Most will remain normal Walmarts.

If and when they do want to open up a Supercentre, the most likely candidate for that first store would be renovating the McPhillips location.

Why McPhillips? Well, we are the North End, and knowing that I work part time at Superstore on McPhillips, there are a lot of cheap skates around here, along with pure competition with the nearby Superstore, and to tell you the truth, Superstore has been copying what Wal-Mart has been doing, mostly in the general merchandise area for quite a while now.