🚀 go-pugleaf

On Sat, 30 Jun 2018 17:51:46 -0400, Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net>
wrote:

>On Sat, 30 Jun 2018, JimP wrote:

>> Sears nearest me looks like a ghost town... and that is with the
>> employees in there.
>>
>Sears in Canada died last year.  I can't remember if it was a bankruptcy 
>or they just decided to shut down. On the other hand, apparently Toys 'R 
>Us is doing okay here, so it will remain after the US operation shuts down 
>(if that hasn't happened already).

     I remember the local coverage about the local (Kamloops, British
Columbia) store closing.  I had not been in one for decades.

>Then there was Target.  A big announcement they were moving to Canada, 
>some years in advance.  They bought the rights to the stores of an 
>existing chain, which slowly closed down over a few years.  Then a wait 
>while Target renovated the stores.  About a year later they announced they 
>were closing in Canada, it would take too long to be profitable.

     It was supposedly a big deal when they opened locally.  I could
rarely find anything I wanted.  It replaced a Zellers which I got a
lot of clothes at.

>They should have thought of that before they started.  I was still looking 
>for where things were, the nearest store was just a bit over a year old. 
>It takes time to adjust.  They claim people had too much expectation, from 
>going to the US along the border and buying there, but I'd never been in 
>the place before they opened in Canada.  I'd go looking for soemthing in 
>the flyer, and couldn't find it, either because it wasn't in stock, or I 
>was still trying to find where things were.

     I tried to buy plain black MacGregor's Happyfoot socks.  It seems
they carried any MacGregor's but the basic stuff.  Their clothes
seemed to be mainly for teens.  It did not take long for me to give up
on them.

     They could not even handle job applications.  Their Website
complained that I had not filled in a required field.  I looked again,
even checked the code: the field in question was not there!

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko