thenay wrote:
^ +1
And I'm sure it'll still be cheaper going to the USA..
Look at Target for instance, everyone was hearing usa prices and usa stock was coning, only to see the same as what were use to already. Everyone I spoke to says Target is a joke and nothing more than a cleaned up Zellers. Anyways...
Let's hope this outlet mall is better than the other so called outlet malls in Canada, price wise.
I never heard anyone say Target in Canada would be the same as Target in the States - just like Wal-mart in Canada was not and is not like Wal-mart in the States, neither is Toys R Us or any other US store who comes to Canada. There are way too many issues to have the same selection and same pricing - different laws (such as language on labels), different duties, and much smaller scale - we have 10% of the population of the US - we cannot support as many products or as many skus as the US can.
Target also said repeatedly before coming here that their pricing would be competitive for the region, not the same as US. So anyone who was thinking Target (or any US store) would be the same as the US was not paying attention, had their heads in the sand, and/or has no idea how business works.
Saying Target is like a cleaned up Zellers is also far from the truth - the prices are better, the selection is better, the stores are cleaner, the stock levels are better, the service is better. I prefer Target to Wal-mart - that was never the case with Zellers, even when I tried to only go to Zellers.