
The Market on Yates' owner was formerly a partner in Thrifty's with Alex Campbell.
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In the aisle for 'ethnic foods', one of the sections was 'British Food', heh. They had those odd varieties of peas (marrowfat and, is it mushy?) and puddings in a tin, and some Spotted Dick! I am so going to buy some spotted dick and serve it for dinner one day.
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Now if they have a bottle or two of Bloater Paste, let me know.
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Posted 15 November 2006 - 04:19 PM
HBC? Canadian?
HBC has been "owned" by American shareholder for years -- long before Zucker came around.
Posted 24 November 2006 - 08:41 PM
Sitka surfer dudes missed waves
Andrew Paine, left, and Rene Gauthier put the finishing touches on the new Sitka Surfboards store located at 538 Yates St.
Photograph by : Bruce Stotesbury, Times Colonist
Darron Kloster, Times Colonist
Published: Thursday, November 23, 2006
November's wicked winds brought some of the year's most killer waves. And the irony is Rene Gauthier and Andrew Paine never caught one. Victoria's most famous surfer dudes were stuck indoors instead, drywalling, sanding, varnishing and whipping a heritage building into their own surfer's paradise.
"It was worth all the work," Paine says of the new home for Sitka Surfboards at 538 Yates St.
And the waves will always return.
The partners moved from the Leland Building on Douglas Street to downtown where they've remodelled the former Carnaby Street Boutique. Rosina Usatch, who operated the import store for more than 37 years and closed it this summer, is leasing the 1888 building to Paine and Gauthier.
They have triple the space and spent more than a month remodelling, keeping "the cabin charm" of the old battered- brick store but giving it a fresh new feel.
Virtually all the materials left by Usatch were re-used, says Paine, including old cedar plank flooring used to make walls to display wetsuits, skateboards and surf boards.
"We had friends and relatives going constantly ... it was a real team effort," says Paine. Friend and craftsman Dominic Boulet, for example, built cabinets while family members hung heavy pieces of drywall and applied the paint and stains.
Both avid surfers, Paine, 26, and Gauthier, 25, developed the Sitka brand while still at the University of Victoria and have built it into a million-dollar company with 15 employees over the past four years.
Earlier this year, Sitka earned a Times Colonist Fast 25 Award, honouring the fastest-growing companies on Vancouver Island.
The partners custom manufacture surfboards and design clothing and accessories of the culture that are sold to similar shops across Canada and the Western U.S.
To keep up with the demand, Paine said Sitka is importing surf boards from Brazil to keep its racks full. Custom-made boards, however, are still their specialty.
The partners are looking for a new manufacturing facility where they can shape the foam cores and rails and add fins and graphics and colours to customer's specifications.
Call 385-SURF or check the site, http://www.sitkasurfboards.com
Posted 24 November 2006 - 08:46 PM
Posted 25 November 2006 - 10:09 AM
Thrifty Foods gears for growth
Island's leading grocer buying up franchised stores, minority shares to leverage capital projects
Thrifty Foods is consolidating ownership of its supermarkets as it launches new stores and plans further growth.
Loyalty keeps national chains at bay
Unique products, local buying and good will at home keep the cash registers busy for home-grown chains
Vancouver Island grocery store operators hold the secrets to building loyal followers -- even as big chains offering discount prices are expanding in this industry, says the president of the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers.
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The Dunsmuir Shell station has operated on the site for 30 years, originally moving from Blanshard and Broughton streets. Over the years, it built an international reputation for service. Gas jockeys were required to run to cars. Women received roses on Fridays. While cars were being gassed up, the insides were vacuumed. Neat and tidy was the order of the day for all parts of the business, a challenging order for a business built on grease, oil and gas.
So what's the story? Do you make more money selling groceries, or servicing cars? :?"We are getting into an older population that want service. In the next five years, there will be an out and out service civil war," Buchanan predicts, looking to the aging baby boomers who will once again want full service.
City council heard again from a Shell representative of how the gas station industry was changing and people no longer used full-service stations. Wal-Marts and Canadian Tires have supplanted the traditional gas station service bay, said Greg Soucie, of Grass Ridge Consulting and Development Ltd. When customers fill up with gas, they also want to buy diapers and other convenience items, he said.
Buchanan said he knows Shell will make more money from groceries than service bays.
"But to say you can't make money is a false statement," he added, interrupting his interview to tell a customer he couldn't take his car into a bay until Monday. "I'd like them to examine my books. It is a very profitable business."
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