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[Dr. Barillas]

I got my first pair of Andre Agassi Nikes @ Rays Sports.

Monday Magazine, 1977.

 

Trying to think back to the stores I remember.  A nice little deli on the south side, just around from where the emergency clinic is now, open well into the 80's.  I think a toy store.  Ray's Sports where Quizno's is/was.  Oh ya, the hobby shop.  We bought candle-making stuff there.  I was a big candle-maker as a kid.   

 

Edited by Dr. Barillas, 05 April 2017 - 01:55 PM.

[Nparker]

...Even that weird candle-making kid...

If only it could have been foreseen what would become of that kid. Clearly the warning signs were all there. 

[Matt R.]

Bring back Mr. Mikes.

There's one in duncan, it's still great! Mike Burger!

Matt.

[RoadRunner]

I remember Ray's being downtown at Douglas and Fisgard. Were there two locations?

[Dr. Barillas]

I remember Ray's being downtown at Douglas and Fisgard. Were there two locations?

 Yes, I think Ray's was where Sura is now also.

[VicHockeyFan]

I remember Ray's being downtown at Douglas and Fisgard. Were there two locations?

 

Yes, but downtown was there much longer.

[AllseeingEye]

The only really good use for that mall in my experience was the underground parkade which made for a particularly good echo chamber when lighting off lady finger fire crackers at Hallowe'en circa 1980-ish, when such things as firecrackers were still legal. Or so I've heard. Anecdotally. As told to me by a third party. Not actually experienced by me first hand. Honest. No.....really....

[VicHockeyFan]

^ Oh, it was also excellent for all-weather street hockey on Sundays too.  The odd sucker would emerge from the medical clinic to find a street-hockey game all around his car.

[Matt R.]

Pretty sure fire crackers were illegal then too. We always bought them through back channels.

Matt.

[aastra]

It must have been an interesting time.

[Bingo]

Store closings and even dead malls are nothing new, but things might be about to get a whole lot worse.

Between 20% and 25% of American malls will close within five years, according to a new report out this week from Credit Suisse.

That kind of plunge would be unprecedented in the nation's history.

The reasons are nothing new. People are shopping online more than ever, and that trend is expected to keep growing. Foot traffic at malls has been on the decline for years.

The report estimates that as malls close, online sales will grow from 17% of retail sales today to 35% by 2030.

http://money.cnn.com...alls/index.html

 

 

[VicHockeyFan]

Pretty sure fire crackers were illegal then too. We always bought them through back channels.

Matt.

 

Ya, us too.  And in seemed to have a Chinese-Canadian connection.

[mbjj]

My daughter has purchased a few things online (couldn't find wanted item in a store) and it's been nothing but a headache getting it delivered. If you're not home when they come (and who is during the daytime on a weekday) then you are having to constantly phone and try to figure out a time. She doesn't drive so going all over the countryside to make a pickup isn't easy. We both much prefer shopping in person.

[grantpalin]

My daughter has purchased a few things online (couldn't find wanted item in a store) and it's been nothing but a headache getting it delivered. If you're not home when they come (and who is during the daytime on a weekday) then you are having to constantly phone and try to figure out a time. She doesn't drive so going all over the countryside to make a pickup isn't easy. We both much prefer shopping in person.

You could try Canada Post's FlexDelivery service. Through them you can create a virtual address which corresponds to a post office of your choice. Use that virtual address when shopping online, and your purchases will end up at the post office corresponding to that address. I use this and it's so convenient.

[lanforod]

My daughter has purchased a few things online (couldn't find wanted item in a store) and it's been nothing but a headache getting it delivered. If you're not home when they come (and who is during the daytime on a weekday) then you are having to constantly phone and try to figure out a time. She doesn't drive so going all over the countryside to make a pickup isn't easy. We both much prefer shopping in person.

Most deliveries to me get left by the front door if no one is home (SFH). Why don't they do that?
It's harder if you're in a apartment and the packages are larger than the package mailbox.

[Mike K.]

UPS and FedEx, if they reach you through the intercom (which usually connects to a cellphone nowadays) can be instructed to leave parcels in the lobby or near the mail boxes. Otherwise they return the next day, and usually failing that leave a note for a pick-up at one of their pick-up locations.

[sebberry]

I just get my stuff shipped to work.  :/

[sebberry]

UPS and FedEx, if they reach you through the intercom (which usually connects to a cellphone nowadays) can be instructed to leave parcels in the lobby or near the mail boxes. Otherwise they return the next day, and usually failing that leave a note for a pick-up at one of their pick-up locations.

 

Isn't FedEx's pickup point out near the airport? 

[Mike K.]

There's one in Oak Bay as well. UPS is far better, as they have multiple UPS stores and a depot in Saanich.

[sebberry]

UPS is far better

 

Until you have to receive something sent from the US.  Brokerage fees galore! 

I always try to ship USPS from the US.