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Originally Posted by polak

Whats judged as a "flop"?

They never had a shot of building the same sort of brand in the States as they do in Canada.

Maybe this.

While it dominates in Canada, the company derives only 5.3 per cent of its revenue from its U.S. locations, which account for 18 per cent of its total stores, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Canadian stores generated $182,000 in operating profit per store last year, whereas U.S. stores generated $20,000 per store, said Derek Dley, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity Corp.,