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Victoria retail thread: retailer news, comings and goings


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#6281 Redd42

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Posted 16 October 2020 - 08:59 PM

Singed off? Or forced to shave off?



#6282 Matt R.

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Posted 16 October 2020 - 09:07 PM

Straight up melted.

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#6283 Redd42

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Posted 16 October 2020 - 10:44 PM

So singed.  :)


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#6284 Matt R.

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Posted 16 October 2020 - 11:53 PM

What’s that smell? Oh wait that’s my arm hair burning.

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#6285 Kapten Kapsell

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Posted 17 October 2020 - 10:52 AM

Parc Modern, a furniture store at Uptown, will be closing soon as the owners are about to retire.



#6286 aastra

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Posted 17 October 2020 - 12:54 PM

Doesn't it depend how much arm hair he had to begin with? Maybe he's already lost 98% of it and that's the "after" pic.

 

VV forumers are generally a hirsute bunch. We should be able to relate.


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#6287 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 October 2020 - 04:41 PM

An owner occupier building with live in suite or additional revenue suite. Located on a high traffic corner along Tillicum Road this property has significant potential for an array of retail or office uses. The surrounding area is growing at a substantial rate, with multiple developments coming to market. The subject property is within the Tillicum Road Development Permit Area of the Official Community Plan, with plans to incorporate additional development consisting of single family, multifamily and commercial properties.

 

 

$1.4M

 

https://www.realtor....d-saanich-gorge


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#6288 Rob Randall

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Posted 21 October 2020 - 06:05 PM

That stretch of Tillicum is nice for people that have relocated here from the worst parts of Nanaimo and are homesick.


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#6289 Matt R.

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Posted 21 October 2020 - 07:53 PM

An owner occupier building with live in suite or additional revenue suite. Located on a high traffic corner along Tillicum Road this property has significant potential for an array of retail or office uses. The surrounding area is growing at a substantial rate, with multiple developments coming to market. The subject property is within the Tillicum Road Development Permit Area of the Official Community Plan, with plans to incorporate additional development consisting of single family, multifamily and commercial properties.[/size]
 
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$1.4M
 
https://www.realtor....d-saanich-gorge


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#6290 spanky123

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Posted 22 October 2020 - 07:53 AM

 

About 2x assessed value. Must be planning to sell it to the Government.


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#6291 Redd42

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Posted 22 October 2020 - 08:24 AM

There are 2 houses just west of there that are also priced way over assessment. I think the assumption is someone will pay much more for a potential development site.

 

https://www.realtor....d-saanich-gorge

 

https://www.realtor....d-saanich-gorge

 

Those 2 houses would be much more attractive as future development if they included the one other house on the block.

 

Land assembly is challenging and a gamble.



#6292 Mike K.

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Posted 22 October 2020 - 08:42 AM

It’s all for land assembly purposes. Those properties are worth a premium.

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#6293 m3m

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Posted 22 October 2020 - 09:16 AM

Former home of Pizza Pieman and B-red bakery. RIP.

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I really miss pizza pieman. The oak bay location
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#6294 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 05:39 AM

Le Chateau going out of business due to COVID-19 impacts

 

The Montreal-based retailer will be closing 123 stores and cutting 1,400 employees who work in stores and at the company's head office. Le Chateau will be liquidating its merchandise.

 

 

 

 

they had a pretty good run i guess.  1959 until now.  if a company goes 61 years then closes due to a 7-month pandemic i presume it was likely on the edge for some time.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 October 2020 - 05:41 AM.


#6295 Rob Randall

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 05:48 AM

Walk into Le Chateau today and it's mostly like any other store, suits, ties, cocktail dresses. Aimed younger than Reitmans or Moore's but still pretty conventional.

 

But in the 80s it was really out there. Shiny suits cut at the hip with gold chains, stuff you'd wear if you were in Prince's band. You couldn't buy a "normal" suit there.

 

Fashion was a lot more wild back then and clothes have remained very conservative for the last 20 and we've basically been in 1962 for decades. Google "JFK yacht" and see for yourself. We're stuck in time.


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#6296 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 05:56 AM

But in the 80s it was really out there. Shiny suits cut at the hip with gold chains, stuff you'd wear if you were in Prince's band. You couldn't buy a "normal" suit there.

 

that's right.  they were purple or white or gold.  kind of club wear.  not stuff you'd wear to work or school.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 October 2020 - 05:57 AM.

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#6297 Barrrister

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 06:26 AM

I am not sure that brick and mortar stores are going to fully recouver after the pandemic is over. Makes one wonder about the unemployment rate.


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#6298 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 06:48 AM

I am not sure that brick and mortar stores are going to fully recouver after the pandemic is over. Makes one wonder about the unemployment rate.

 

there is almost no doubt that some portion of the population has been suddenly turned on to inline shopping.  it was happening anyway but now it has accelerated a bit.  

 

overall does it take more or less people to ship a product online?  so while there might be store clerks out of jobs here, there are more people than ever working in fulfillment centres elsewhere.

 

lose your job at the mall, get a job driving a purolator truck.

 

btw females are horrendously underrepresented driving delivery trucks.  opposite of malls.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 23 October 2020 - 06:50 AM.


#6299 Nparker

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 07:04 AM

...while there might be store clerks out of jobs here, there are more people than ever working in fulfillment centres elsewhere....lose your job at the mall, get a job driving a purolator truck...

I doubt it's a one-for-one job correlation. There will be fewer jobs.


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#6300 mbjj

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Posted 23 October 2020 - 07:06 AM

I just don't see how you can buy clothing online. I've only bought a couple of things out of necessity and both really didn't fit very well. I guess that's why so many people, esp. women, look like schlumps.

 

I remember buying a very lovely suede jacket from Le Chateau 25 years ago.



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