Skip to content
  • Categories
  • Recent
  • Tags
  • Popular
  • Users
  • Groups
Skins
  • Light
  • Cerulean
  • Cosmo
  • Flatly
  • Journal
  • Litera
  • Lumen
  • Lux
  • Materia
  • Minty
  • Morph
  • Pulse
  • Sandstone
  • Simplex
  • Sketchy
  • Spacelab
  • United
  • Yeti
  • Zephyr
  • Dark
  • Cyborg
  • Darkly
  • Quartz
  • Slate
  • Solar
  • Superhero
  • Vapor

  • Default (No Skin)
  • No Skin
Collapse

The New Coffee Room

  1. TNCR
  2. General Discussion
  3. Most popular "brand"

Most popular "brand"

Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved General Discussion
7 Posts 5 Posters 76 Views
  • Oldest to Newest
  • Newest to Oldest
  • Most Votes
Reply
  • Reply as topic
Log in to reply
This topic has been deleted. Only users with topic management privileges can see it.
  • G Offline
    G Offline
    George K
    wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 13:06 last edited by
    #1

    https://vividmaps.com/most-popular-brands/

    alt text

    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

    1 Reply Last reply
    • X Offline
      X Offline
      xenon
      wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 14:08 last edited by
      #2

      Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

      Broadly - there's much less segmentation across retailers in Canada (both high-end and low-end).

      Target entered Canada and flamed out, because they didn't really have a compelling position.

      G T R 3 Replies Last reply 3 Feb 2021, 14:19
      • X xenon
        3 Feb 2021, 14:08

        Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

        Broadly - there's much less segmentation across retailers in Canada (both high-end and low-end).

        Target entered Canada and flamed out, because they didn't really have a compelling position.

        G Offline
        G Offline
        George K
        wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 14:19 last edited by
        #3

        @xenon said in Most popular "brand":

        Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

        Are the stores basically the same, however? Same decor, same stock, same old geezers being "greeters?"

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

        X 1 Reply Last reply 3 Feb 2021, 14:31
        • G George K
          3 Feb 2021, 14:19

          @xenon said in Most popular "brand":

          Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

          Are the stores basically the same, however? Same decor, same stock, same old geezers being "greeters?"

          X Offline
          X Offline
          xenon
          wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 14:31 last edited by
          #4

          @george-k said in Most popular "brand":

          @xenon said in Most popular "brand":

          Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

          Are the stores basically the same, however? Same decor, same stock, same old geezers being "greeters?"

          They have the "roll-back prices" logo. Same decor. Same geezers, yes.

          Retail prices are higher and product range is lower.

          But I think the strategy is slightly different. One of the first Walmarts I went to was a part of a mall.

          1 Reply Last reply
          • A Away
            A Away
            Axtremus
            wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 14:50 last edited by
            #5

            Kudos to the grey areas. They are the true diverse, independent thinkers not overly influenced by any particular brand.

            1 Reply Last reply
            • X xenon
              3 Feb 2021, 14:08

              Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

              Broadly - there's much less segmentation across retailers in Canada (both high-end and low-end).

              Target entered Canada and flamed out, because they didn't really have a compelling position.

              T Offline
              T Offline
              taiwan_girl
              wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 16:17 last edited by
              #6

              @xenon said in Most popular "brand":

              Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

              When I was in South Korea, Walmart had a big "move" into the market there.

              They actually failed there, and ended up removing themselves from the South Korea completely.

              Not sure if they tried to "import" their US model to South Korea, but what ever they did, it did not work.

              1 Reply Last reply
              • X xenon
                3 Feb 2021, 14:08

                Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

                Broadly - there's much less segmentation across retailers in Canada (both high-end and low-end).

                Target entered Canada and flamed out, because they didn't really have a compelling position.

                R Offline
                R Offline
                Renauda
                wrote on 3 Feb 2021, 16:48 last edited by Renauda 2 Mar 2021, 16:49
                #7

                @xenon said in Most popular "brand":

                Fun fact - Walmart has very little of the "low-end" connotations that it does in the U.S.

                That's correct. The reason Wal-Mart is popular here is because it's close to being the only department store still operating. Even that Canadian icon of department stores, The Bay, appears to be on its last legs. When it is gone, Wal-Mart pretty much has the market all to itself. The one area in which Wal-Mart however did fail and, at least around these parts, has shut down is automotive parts and repair. Couldn't compete at all with Canadian Tire or the local tire, brake and alignment franchises and shops. I heard that one of the problems Wal-Mart had was that it couldn't attract qualified mechanics to come and work for them.

                Elbows up!

                1 Reply Last reply
                Reply
                • Reply as topic
                Log in to reply
                • Oldest to Newest
                • Newest to Oldest
                • Most Votes

                4/7

                3 Feb 2021, 14:31


                • Login

                • Don't have an account? Register

                • Login or register to search.
                4 out of 7
                • First post
                  4/7
                  Last post
                0
                • Categories
                • Recent
                • Tags
                • Popular
                • Users
                • Groups