Canadian Tire: Flea Market or Dollar Store?

Have you been to Canadian Tire lately? Canadian Tire is one of Canada’s largest retailers, it sells a wide variety of home and auto products. If you visited the store in the last year you have seen changes. There are all these cardboard boxes with $1 dollar items, shelves look like a clearance sale with one version of each item. Small tables and real horrible looking home decor items have begun to populate the store like weeds. This is the price all of us get to pay. Now we are blessed with a wide selection of crap to pick from with little quality merchandise around. This is just another example of the Wal-Mart effect, every retailer is just scared shit that if they don’t sell crap they are doomed. Where’s the good stuff, you know when someone actually might want to buy it but can’t since nobody sells any quality goods.

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