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Originally Posted by Wormius
I think another interesting one to watch fail will be Cabelas. It is mind boggling that they will open a store at the Deerfoot Outlet Mall, less than a few km away from Bass Pro. I went to one in the states to see what it was about, and it is almost a direct copy of Bass Pro. The only reason I would probably venture only out to Deerfoot Outlet Mall and not all the way to CrossIrons is if I had a very specific need.
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Cabelas' choice of location in Calgary is interesting because it does lend itself to compare against Bass Pro. However, their expansion plan across the west is very obviously targeting Wholesale Sports. To the point that they even opened north and south Edmonton stores, the one city where WSS has two stores, in the north and south.
I don't think there is room for both of those companies, so I fully expect one will fail, probably within 2-3 years.
As far as Krispy Kreme goes, that was one of the most overrated companies ever. I did enjoy the irony of how they came in predicting they would take down Tim Hortons, and now the old KK location is a Tims.