Lowes Opening 3 Stores in Calgary in 2010

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by Mad Mel

Actually I do, having lived eight year in Calgary. Which I am sure is longer than your adult life.

Try going to Los Angeles or NYC sometime. Or drive down the 101 from SF to SJ. It's stores the. Whole. Way.

I guess you come from buttfata, Alberta if you think Calgary is some sort of retail hotbed.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Try going to Los Angeles or NYC sometime. Or drive down the 101 from SF to SJ. It's stores the. Whole. Way.

I guess you come from buttfata, Alberta if you think Calgary is some sort of retail hotbed.

Box stores in NYC huh? Care to point those out to me? Unless of course you consider the minature Home Depot or Best Buy in a basement to be a box store.

I've lived on 4 continents and a number of major cities and have to agree that Calgary definitely has more than its share of big retail establishments.

[pepper24]

Too close to Kevin Lowe for me to shop there!

[pepper24]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Try going to Los Angeles or NYC sometime. Or drive down the 101 from SF to SJ. It's stores the. Whole. Way.

I guess you come from buttfata, Alberta if you think Calgary is some sort of retail hotbed.

I think Mad Mel might be right to a degree. In university, I remember in a Marketing class that Calgary has one of the best demographics in North America for disposible income, gender, ethnicity etc. for retail shopping. It was tops in Canada by far. That's basically all I remember from that class.

This was U of A in Edmonton so I don't think they had any added motivation to praise Calgary.

[Shazam]

Originally Posted by valo403

Box stores in NYC huh? Care to point those out to me? Unless of course you consider the minature Home Depot or Best Buy in a basement to be a box store.

I've lived on 4 continents and a number of major cities and have to agree that Calgary definitely has more than its share of big retail establishments.

I'm just talking retail. Not just big box. To say that Calgary has an awesome retail market is simply silly. Christ, SCP + Fashion Island in OC is like Chinook Centre, Southcentre, all of downtown and Mallzac put together.

[Mad Mel]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Try going to Los Angeles or NYC sometime. Or drive down the 101 from SF to SJ. It's stores the. Whole. Way.

I guess you come from buttfata, Alberta if you think Calgary is some sort of retail hotbed.

I see the entire concept of 'per capita' has eluded you.

For the record, I'm not from Alberta, just lived there eight years in my last stint before Australia. Lived in quite a few places, actually. You should try it.

[Cactus Jack]

Calgary has lots of options and many many box stores due to its footprint as a city but I think the point being argued is the lack of high end shopping this city has. You can't compare the high end stuff to Toronto, Montreal or Vancouver. That may not be your thing and may not matter to you, but it is the truth.

[valo403]

Originally Posted by Shazam

I'm just talking retail. Not just big box. To say that Calgary has an awesome retail market is simply silly. Christ, SCP + Fashion Island in OC is like Chinook Centre, Southcentre, all of downtown and Mallzac put together.

Who'd of thunk that cities multiple times the size of Calgary would have multiple time the retail outlets. As Mel said, the concept of per capita seems to have eluded you.

[trueimage]

Any ideas when the Lowes by Cross Iron Mills is opening?

[Skate around the circle]

Originally Posted by Shazam

Rona mostly sucks, so I think they'll take a hit.

I agree total crap accessories for power tools.HD could use the competion bring it on Lowes.

[Ducay]

Originally Posted by trueimage

Any ideas when the Lowes by Cross Iron Mills is opening?

It isn't open? I was at CrossIron 2 weeks ago and the parking lot at Lowes was packed.....

[missdpuck]

I like Lowe's for the Samsung kitchen appliances.
However the garden center at ours sucks. So we go across the street to HD, which has a great garden center at that location.

[chalms04]

Originally Posted by Ducay

It isn't open? I was at CrossIron 2 weeks ago and the parking lot at Lowes was packed.....

With employees such as myself.

Open to the public Monday the 20th (tomorrow)!

Details here:

http://www.lowes.ca/promotions/calgary_opening.aspx

[chalms04]

Also McKenzie is slated to open in the new year, and Sunridge sometime next summer.

[Deviaant]

Personally I shop Windsor Plywood. Granted they are few and far between but they sure know what they are talking about. Well that and they are a smaller Canadian company and ill drive the extra few KM's out of my way to support anything Canadian. I hate HD and Rona with a passion but I do often find myself at a HD for tools and whatnot...something Windsor just does not have.

[amorak]

Originally Posted by Deviaant

Personally I shop Windsor Plywood. Granted they are few and far between but they sure know what they are talking about. Well that and they are a smaller Canadian company and ill drive the extra few KM's out of my way to support anything Canadian. I hate HD and Rona with a passion but I do often find myself at a HD for tools and whatnot...something Windsor just does not have.

I think someone needs to do more research, based on the hilighting above...

[ricoFlame]

Lowe's delivered flowers to our house today...odd.

[CrusaderPi]

Anyone remember Eagle Hardware and their expansion into Canada?

[ken0042]

Originally Posted by amorak

I think someone needs to do more research, based on the hilighting above...

I was under the impression Rona wasn't Canadian. Aren't they based in Quebec?

[Fuzzy McGillicuddy]

I was in the Country Hills Home Depot this past weekend. Within the first five minutes I was offered help and assistance from three staff. That's when I realized the Lowe's must either be open, or close to opening.