There's a few Canadian Tire bashers here but I had a good experience at one time.
The 21 stores in the lower mainland were owned by a couple guys and one of the coolest things they ever did was an Ignition program that paid their workers $2000 towards school.
Every Christmas the 21 stores were all judged for appearance and bonuses were given out. The best performing store gave all their employees 50cents (worth more then than now) for every hour worked that year.
Each store had a Gold, Silver, Bronze award program where a Gold winner would walk away with $1000 at the Xmas party. I think the Silver and Bronze was $500 and $250. I won a few of these and it was nice to be recognized for hard work at a young age.
The the owners got out of the franchise and each store was run separately...that's when the cheapness took over here. Big difference.
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