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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Your neighbourhood should get escalators going up and down the hill like Hong Kong If Vancouver can achieve the density of Hong Kong, I'll support this. For now, I'd rather us actually build up around our stations and ditch RS-1 zoning.
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Jan 17, 2023 20:51
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COPE 27 posted:I live in a commuter town in Quebec, but at least I can walk to multiple deps in under 5 minutes, a main street with 2 dozen business in 15 minutes, or a grocery store in 15 minutes. That sounds great. I live in a commuter town in the GTA and I’m a 30 minute walk from the nearest grocery store.
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Jan 17, 2023 21:25
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Yeah man it's not easy being an anglo here and my house isn't big enough but if I move back to Ontario there is nowhere I could live that I could meet all my needs within a 15 minute walk. Even my doctor, dry cleaner, butcher... It's such an improvement for my quality of life it more than makes up for the longer work\commuting hours and it let us go down to 1 car.
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Jan 17, 2023 22:13
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The best thing about living where you live now, wherever it is and regardless of who you are, is that it's the cheapest place you'll live for the rest of your life! We takes those silver linings wheres we can gets 'em.
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Jan 17, 2023 23:07
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Cool Kids Club Soda posted:Your neighbourhood should get escalators going up and down the hill like Hong Kong Hmmm, but where do the cars go? Confusing!
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Jan 18, 2023 15:14
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Albino Squirrel posted:What's the 'other' bit in the middle of the main peninsula? It looks like very large RS-1 houses on Google Maps, around Shaughnessy Park. Is it like, extra-special single-family zoning? West point grey was especially fun when I was a little kid as I lived in Jericho base housing, and because of locale went to school there. Even as a 5-6 year old you could feel the seething rage rich bitches had both over a poor being in their school and how they would constantly bitch that Jericho base should be torn down for more mansions so poors wouldn't infect the area. Best bit of work the Canadian army ever did, hope they be a thorn in twat sides forever
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Jan 18, 2023 15:16
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Man the Public Service Alliance of Canada keeps winning. I got *another* retroactive increase to my pay. 
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Jan 18, 2023 20:14
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Hey how's The Bay holding up these days? https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/here-is-where-25-new-zellers-stores-will-open-in-canada-this-year-1.6235651 oh cool I'm sure some necromancy will go over great. Not like Target didn't already crash and burn trying to keep these department stores open.
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Jan 19, 2023 20:12
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Orthanc6 posted:Hey how's The Bay holding up these days? Target was trying to open over 100 stores in its first two years while simultaneously building a new corporate culture and inventory system from scratch. Location wasn't necessarily the issue
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Jan 19, 2023 20:22
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No restaraunt? Smh fake Zellers
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Jan 19, 2023 21:17
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Unless things dramatically change I can't see opening physical retail chains being a winning strategy.
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Jan 19, 2023 21:22
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ZShakespeare posted:Unless things dramatically change I can't see opening physical retail chains being a winning strategy. That's why they're doing e-commerce too, which might have a chance of doing better given that amazon.ca sucks poo poo. I wouldn't put money on it, though. I laughed at the nostalgia aspect of it in CBC's video, check this poo poo out:   Hell yeah give me those memories of the Bayview Village Kmart but with 4x higher prices and also it's a smaller concept now??
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Jan 19, 2023 21:32
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That man is on so much cocaine
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Jan 19, 2023 21:48
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They're popups inside of existing The Bay locations. They're resurrecting their discount brand, but they're not really spending any money to do it.
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Jan 19, 2023 21:52
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Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. Now Sizzler, that’s nostalgia.
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Jan 19, 2023 22:03
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. Sizzeller's
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Jan 19, 2023 22:10
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. A union.
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Jan 19, 2023 22:11
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. Where the gently caress is my Ponderosa popup
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Jan 19, 2023 22:13
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. The electronics section in the last few years of their existent became the go-to place for "obscure as poo poo" PC games for me. I found out about Paradox from them.
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Jan 19, 2023 22:15
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. They had a diner that some people liked, purely for nostalgia reasons. Of course the new popups don't have them. They also had marginally lower prices than the rest of HBC retail, presumably they will again. Given that their direct competition will be Walmart Canada, I don't think they're actually going to be price competitive in any sense. Randalor posted:The electronics section in the last few years of their existent became the go-to place for "obscure as poo poo" PC games for me. I found out about Paradox from them. You could buy new in box N64 games from them in 2007 because they seemingly never cleared dead stock
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Jan 19, 2023 22:16
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Bringing back Zellers is actually a good segmentation play imo, especially considering that they aren't generating enough margin to pay their leases and in pretty sure their vendors are squeezing them on credit terms too. This might let them pivot back to a higher segment at the bay without losing too much customer traffic at the low end. They're gonna go bankrupt anyway so why not give it a shot. Re: target, they do a least gave the p&d infrastructure to support their store conversions.
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Jan 19, 2023 22:21
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Kibayasu posted:Who the gently caress is nostalgic for Zellers. What the hell did Zellers have. I have nostalgia for being accompanied by my mom as she sifted through all of the cheapest clothes she could find because she refused to spend money at other stores, while simultaneously sighing every time I was too big for the clothes she found. No, wait, the opposite of that. Nightmares. I have nightmares of going through that again.
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Jan 19, 2023 22:28
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mojo1701a posted:I have nostalgia for being accompanied by my mom as she sifted through all of the cheapest clothes she could find because she refused to spend money at other stores, while simultaneously sighing every time I was too big for the clothes she found. Just think though, you now have an opportunity to put your own children through the same experiences that shaped you as a person! A real Old Stock Canadian ExperienceTM
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Jan 19, 2023 22:38
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Furnaceface posted:Just think though, you now have an opportunity to put your own children through the same experiences that shaped you as a person! I guess finally being considered "old stock" would do my immigrant family proud, given how many of them complain about foreigners 
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Jan 19, 2023 23:04
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bring back biway
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Jan 19, 2023 23:10
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Was Zellers that expensive? I guess it was, don't really remember. It going away and Target exploding violently left some awful big gaps in a lot of neighbourhoods for sure though.
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Jan 19, 2023 23:18
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Tighclops posted:bring back biway C.f. my Zellers problem, but worse.
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Jan 19, 2023 23:18
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DaysBefore posted:Was Zellers that expensive? Their prices were legally mandated.
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Jan 19, 2023 23:51
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DaysBefore posted:Was Zellers that expensive? I guess it was, don't really remember. It going away and Target exploding violently left some awful big gaps in a lot of neighbourhoods for sure though. They used to be really cheap when they were competing with heavy discounters like kmart, giant tigre etc. When Walmart came to canada they actually invested a bit in higher quality and competed for the same segment so people might have felt that was expensive compared to before, but it was actually not bad.
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Jan 19, 2023 23:54
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I went into The Bay at metrotown last year and it reminded me a lot of Sears just before they went under.
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Jan 20, 2023 00:44
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eXXon posted:That's why they're doing e-commerce too, which might have a chance of doing better given that amazon.ca sucks poo poo. I wouldn't put money on it, though. If there is one thing I have confidence in Zellers to do it's not adequately copy Amazon's thing (using the postal service instead of having physical locations and selling things at a loss until all the competition gives up).
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Jan 20, 2023 00:47
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ZShakespeare posted:I went into The Bay at metrotown last year and it reminded me a lot of Sears just before they went under. Oh right, the husk of Target/Zellers at Metrotown turned into.... Walmart. After a few years of being a void. Yeah the Bay has been a dead man walking since before Covid. If I was on their board I'd be looking for ways to convince Amazon to turn the stores into warehouses yesterday. I don't even pass through the one at Granville station when transferring from Canada Line cause the layout is so awkward it doesn't feel like a shortcut.
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Jan 20, 2023 01:32
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Raj Sherman, former PC MLA in Alberta, turned Liberal MLA, turned leader of the Liberal Party, turned unsuccessful candidate for the UCP leadership (and hence premier), has announced he is running for... UCP candidate for MLA in his old riding. https://twitter.com/RajSherman/status/1616095066099183619 His professed beliefs, beyond "please elect me", are probably best described as a Lougheed Tory. Unfortunately, they don't exist anymore, so he's left to run again and again in a quest for relevance.
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Jan 20, 2023 02:05
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Bring back SAAN
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Jan 20, 2023 02:44
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Bring back Bargin Harold’s.
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Jan 20, 2023 03:59
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StealthArcher posted:Bring back SAAN Real heads know
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Jan 20, 2023 04:08
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Like 3 years ago I found a jar of granulated garlic in my mom's pantry from bi-way. She moved in 2005. Also, gently caress Raj Sherman. Take your stupid red/wrapped pickup truck and just like loving stop trying for a decade.
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Jan 20, 2023 04:20
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The last time I was in a Bay we were using it as a shortcut to bypass cops when we were storming out of the Skytrain station before the riot started.StealthArcher posted:Bring back SAAN
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Jan 20, 2023 05:58
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Cocaine Bear posted:Their prices were legally mandated. Well done! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vu9Xo-FEkyI
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Jan 20, 2023 06:48
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Can't be worse than any other idea they've had. They're just rebranding small sections of existing stores, it's basically free in comparison to what Target did.
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Jan 20, 2023 14:45
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