Just had a random stop there. Well maybe not random. I stop there occasionally. I am somewhat worried as well. It has some good stuff I like. Valbella stuff, Avalon milk, the local soap and different stuff in the Deli. I think they have a plan.
Not quite Calgary, but Valbellas renovation is coming along swimmingly. Sadly, their chimney sticks disagree with me, so feel free to enjoy a pack for me.
Houses, restaurants and retail are all being optimized to a perfect standard by a few major builders/companies.
I mean even look within Calgary. Our new communities are all exactly the same. Same looking houses, same shopping district, same restaurants. They're barely distinguishable.
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Calgary is getting a Decathlon store at Southcentre. I shopped at a few in Europe and they were like Sportchek on steroids. Could be a good alternative to MEC and Sportchek.
Interesting - this reminds me of Mountain Warehouse in Market Mall. Prices are reasonable, but it's all house brands / lesser brands. So that means Quecha jackets, not North Face or Arcteryx.
Decathlon is the Walmart of sports equipment, with off-brand / no-brand stuff filled the store. I am not sure how successful it will be in a "snobby" city like Calgary where there are way more latter-sippers than Timmies chuckers...
There was a lot of hoopla over Sporting Life opening at Southcentre a few years ago. But whenever I go there it’s dead. It’s also expensive. So maybe a downmarket sporting store will do better.
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This tells you how low Southcenter has become. While Chinook is kicking out the "cheap" stores in favour of bring in the likes of Louis Vuitton, Southcenter is inviting Dollarama and Winners. I remember a time when both malls are pretty much equal status...
While I share the concerns about creeping sameness, I wanted to share this hopeful story. I stopped by Silk Road to buy a few things last weekend and was chatting with the clerk about how I had finally worked through the huge order I placed at the beginning of the pandemic. She said many of their customers were similarly worried and placed big orders, to the extent they had to totally reconfigure their warehouse arrangements. In context it sounded like the business was doing really well, and certainly they expressed deep gratitude for their customers.
I love shopping there, it's a special place. Feels like something that escaped from Heritage Park.
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Silk Road is one of those few absolute gems. Independent, Fantastic products, interesting choices, awesome shopping environment, staff that are actually nice to deal with. One of those places you don’t really want to leave.
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No, no…I’m not sloppy, or lazy. This is a sign of the boredom.
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Interesting - this reminds me of Mountain Warehouse in Market Mall. Prices are reasonable, but it's all house brands / lesser brands. So that means Quecha jackets, not North Face or Arcteryx.
Will that succeed? Time will tell.
I don’t know about some of their other items, but the clothes were a pretty good deal and have lasted a long time.
Yes, it's one of the reasons why I don't think they should develop Highland Park golf course. It's already a travesty it's been sitting 15 years in a not very usable state. Once you develop inner city parks, you never get them back. They need to daylight the creek, and build a pathway, but other than that, leave it as is.
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This tells you how low Southcenter has become. While Chinook is kicking out the "cheap" stores in favour of bring in the likes of Louis Vuitton, Southcenter is inviting Dollarama and Winners. I remember a time when both malls are pretty much equal status...
Southcenter still has Sporting Life which is upmarket. They had to bring in whatever tenants they could as they had the large Sears anchor that had been sitting empty for 3 years now aside from temporary stints as a cheap furniture store. To fill that space, they expanded the smaller retail, added Dollarama, Winners, and now Decathlon. They also still have Pottery Barn which is upmarket.
Market Mall faced the same thing when Target closed but they repurposed that into Winners on the outside, Zara on the inside, and a few other stores.
Chinook has also had quite a bit of turnover during the pandemic and have a bunch of no-name stores popping up.
I don't understand power centres. I'm much happier visiting the stand alone Rona, HD, Safeway, Superstore, Costco, or CT(before it moved to Deerfoot City). Why are we building our cities like this? Is it just cheaper to build them this way? Need less individual parking? What's the actual benefit? I think they are all horrendous and rarely pull in to one.
