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Article #624535Re: Computers, anyone?
From: Alfred Falk
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 03:58
Date: Wed, 04 Jul 2018 03:58
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Michael Black <mbl...@pubnix.net> wrote in news:alpine.LNX.2.20.1807021356110.28477@thrush: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2018, Alfred Falk wrote: > > >> > I guess I'm lucky, in almost downtonw Montreal a lof of these chain > stores require a deliberate trip. When Ikea came to down decades ago, > it was nearby, a smaller version, but they've long moved to the > suburbs. There was no downtown Canadian Tire until about 1990, which > is now long in the past, but it was a big thing at the time, I'd barely > gone into one until then. But Walmart was a deliberate trip, and I > think I avoided it for some time, no real reason. I did go in a few > times, and found it a real mess, things just dumped all over the place. > Yes, messy customers, but not enough staff to put things back. So > there was a big gap but recently I have gone in a bit, mostly for some > food items, but it's only when I happen to be nearby. > > When Mountain Equipment Coop came to town fifteen years ago, they built > from scratch, a nice ecologically sound building, but right in the > middle of a shopping area, the buidlings all separate but something you > deliberately drive to. An odd place for an outdoor store. It's only a > two hour walk, each way. I think they've realized the issue, since now > there is a "boutiqe" store kind of downtown, with a limited number of > items, and less outdoor than the market they are going after these days > kind of urban who wants their stuff. Interesting. In Edmonton, MEC was on the edge of downtown in an old Safeway supermarket, and were there for 25 years or more. Now they have moved out to a "Power Center" of the sort you describe.
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