24 Replies to “Morning In Chinada”

  1. Rooks Rike Money Rondering.
    Tsawwassen Mills is popular only because of the massive immigration of Jeets to nearby Surrey and Richmond’s old school Chinese immigrants, thinking some of Woobie’s luck will rub off.
    As for a “new bay” chain of department stores? A fool and her ill begotten fortune are soon parted. Clearly, she doesn’t understand the long term trend that eats up retailers.
    Eatons. Sears. Woodwards. Dominion. Bay. Kmart. Woolworths. The list goes on with smaller regional chains, some that now only consists of a handful of stores, Fields, for example.
    But, maybe that influx of dark money off the mainland will float her new stores for years to come. After all Money Rondering in BC has been a lucrative business for many, many years without any penalty whatsoever.

    2. Is there any storefront retail left in #Canuckistan that -isn’t- Money Rondering?

      Few and far between, my friends. Between rents and taxes, there’s damn little that you can move enough of to make a profit even when you run the place yourself.

  3. Confucius says:

    Having Liberal friends in Canadian high places makes for smile on Communist Chinese faces.

    1. I’m guessing she will take a cue from the ‘Gay North Dakota’ meme, and unofficially name her new HBC stores the ‘Gay North Amazon – Totally Not From China’ company.
      And then offer an online bonanza (or try to).

  9. This seems like a pipe dream to me. Retail in-store purchase is pretty much dead. Take a company like LL Bean. Their Freeport, ME store gets a nice traffic of shoppers, but it’s an affectation. It’s more of a tourist destination. The vast majority of their sales are, of course, online. They move unpurchased product through Outlet locations as a last resort.

    I read a little about Weihong (Ruby) Liu’s “innovative” idea for stores, and to be honest, it sounds a lot like Walmart. Putting retail textiles, food, and beauty salons all in one place.

    The genie is out of the bottle on retail. I don’s see it getting back in. If anything, I could see an effort to capitalize on the failings of Amazon/ Fed Ex/ UPS. One of my main gripes is that’s I’m never home to receive orders. As a result people have to contend with porch pirates, improper delivery etc. I could see major retailers setting up very local depots allowing individuals to pick up products at their convenience without traveling far. And, while you could obviously say that it would be costly to employ an individual in every town to provide that service…there’s nothing keeping an enterprising individual from setting them up and then leasing the service to multiple entities.

    Heh…there’s a get rich quick scheme for anyone interested. I imagine it wouldn’t be a difficult sell to someone like Amazon. It would improve their efficiency significantly.

    2. “…very local depots allowing individuals to pick up products at their convenience without traveling far.”

      You mean like a Post Office? ~:D

      Fedex does that already, because their delivery weenies “can’t find the address” so often they need a depot for people to pick stuff up. That’s because they employ “foreign students” driving rented sh1tbox vans. If it’s rural, they “can’t find it” because it costs them too much in mileage to drive that far.

      Amazon seems to be able to find the address just fine, since Amazon pays for the truck and the gas.

      1. Consumers Distributing sounds too cute in it’s execution. And, considering the liquidation…it was not the desired service. They didn’t need show rooms or products. They just needed a location, a storage area, and an individual to handle the clientele.

        I was thinking of something much more basic and simple. A place to drop merchandise that couldn’t be delivered for whatever reason…that’s it. Not just in highly urban areas, but every single town. And, yes, the post office is supposed to provide that service, but at the same time the Post Office limits it’s effectiveness by limiting their client base with rules, restrictions and costs. i tried to send a piece of landscaping equipment to a relative in Texas and the hoops they create, costs they add on, and parcel size requirements made it basically impossible. It was cheaper to buy a new item in Texas.

        1. You…you know Amazon and Walmart already have this, right? Amazon lockers? Your packages get delivered there and you get the code to unlock the locker? They’re in malls, Walmarts, post offices, other frequented locations.

  10. L – Will her store promote “Buy Made in Canada” ?
    What percentage of her employees will be vetted for loyalty to the Unite Front of the C.C.P.?

    What % of her employees will enter Canada under work/student visa, as Canada has a critical shortage of low wage migrant workers?

  11. The big department stores are a thing of the past.. Mall rats, hang outs and where you used to go to get stuff.. IMO the day they banned smoking is the day they went into decline.. 1/3rd of their customers got in and out as fast as possible.. I’m sure this made another 1/3rd verry happy..

    They can put that on their tombstone..

  13. There’s no such thing as a career in retail in Canada. Walmart, Value Village the Dollar Store

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