8 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  2. Early Ikea
    Warehouse pricing because it was a warehouse
    I think they learned their methods from SLCB and ALCB, self filled out forms and handed over a desk

  3. Ah yes – read like the liberal manifesto. Lots of pretty promises but when you turn in your ballot you found everything is ‘out-of-stock’

  4. The Consumers Distributing near my place growing up was right next to the ALCB. I used to go in there whilst my dad was going through the arduous process of buying Beer and thumb through the catalog.
    I spent many an hour looking through the CD catalog that came out before Christmas.

  5. Ah, those were the days my friend, we thought they would never end.
    Remember the imitation Consumers Dist clones like Cardinal (Steinberg’s?), Horizon, (Eaton’s?).
    And GEM? (GEM was an early “wholesale/retail association” hybrid in North York “restricted to government employees only”.
    Price Club? Joined it because they were one of the few places that still sold great air aged beef for less than an arm and a leg. Then they didn’t. Then Costco took over.
    Consumers Dist: Knew they were sinking fast when an in store request for a catalogue (because none had arrived in the mail which was very unusual) was answered with a request to first disclose type of habitation.

  6. CD was actually “soviet style” retail. Great and efficient idea on paper, not so good in practice.
    That said, CD was around before the PC really took off, and before much more inexpensive inventory (think RFID/ portable bar code scanner) technology became available. Instead of filling out the paper form, what if they had had PC’s where you could check the inventory BEFORE placing your order? In fact, what if you could place the order from home, check inventory, pay for it, and then have them ship it to you? Then CD would have taken off!
    Oh wait.. we do have that. It’s called “Amazon”.

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