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RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 08-21-2015
(08-21-2015, 09:42 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(08-21-2015, 05:32 PM)panamaniac Wrote: This is something that merits support, should you find yourself downtown during the week.
I shall have to wander over there at lunchtime on Monday! Maybe I can get some decent carrots instead of the monster ones sold by most supermarkets.
But this is good news for the downtown-dwellers, to be sure.
She had purple carrots!
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 09-01-2015
The TBS sign at the former Woolworths building on King St E has been replaced by a Dollarama sign. I don't know why I thought it was going to be a Dollar Tree.
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 09-12-2015
It's not really about retail, but I was pleasantly surprised to see people staging the windows of the old Kabel's store Downtown (most recently Artisan Zone). It's done up as a clothing store and it looks a hundred times better than the empty display space. It would be good to see more of this downtown, at least for the window spaces that are sitting empty or covered with kraft paper.
RE: General Retail News - tomh009 - 09-15-2015
(08-21-2015, 05:32 PM)panamaniac Wrote: The Legacy Greens pop-up shop at 10 King St E is now open. Modest selection of fresh, mostly local fruit and veg, a few packaged foods. The owner, told me that still to come are a weekly fresh soup-in-a-jar (Wednesday's), frozen ices and ice-cream, and some local pasture-fed beef and pork. Pricing seems fair - I noticed "Elmira's Own" grape tomatoes at $3.49 per box, which is 50 cents below what a well-known central supermarket sells them for.
This is something that merits support, should you find yourself downtown during the week.
I finally made it there today. Very nice selection and presentation, clearly done on a budget but done well. Prices are quite reasonable, and most of the food is local (or fairly local).
They're committed to running until Christmas, but will continue if they have enough business. Let's make sure they do, I think Legacy Greens is a great addition to the downtown!
RE: General Retail News - KevinL - 09-16-2015
As Waterloo loses a Dollarama (temporarily) to fire, Kitchener looks set to soon open the downtown location - signage and window treatments are in place, there's a brand new entry vestibule, the ceiling is coming together and the walls look done. A bit more here and there, then shelves and stock can move in.
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 10-15-2015
Budds has announced that it will be closing in the New Year.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5961507-budds-closing-after-89-years-in-business/
RE: General Retail News - MidTowner - 10-15-2015
Oh no! Maybe inevitably, I guess, but very sad news...
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 10-27-2015
Budds is wasting no time with their closing - the "For Lease" signs are already in the window. The space seems too big for Downtown retail, so I wonder if it might not be yet another conversion to office space? I've always assumed that the Budd brothers owned the building, but I really don't know.
RE: General Retail News - tomh009 - 10-27-2015
(10-15-2015, 12:11 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Budds has announced that it will be closing in the New Year.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/5961507-budds-closing-after-89-years-in-business/
And the story in The Record has the usual doom-and-gloom comments about downtown.
RE: General Retail News - Viewfromthe42 - 10-30-2015
Two new (to me) shops in UpTown. One is on Princess, in the old Loop Clothing space next to the now-defunct McMullen's space. Called "UpTown Woods," it seems like men's clothing of a not small enough to be hipster variety.
In the cottage-y building at the northeast of Regina and Erb, a store called "Funhouse" seems to be a clothing/lifestyle shop similar to what Sanction was.
RE: General Retail News - Quiet One - 10-30-2015
Hatashita Diamonds in Uptown is closing due to retirement - their closing sale started yesterday.
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6062625-hatashita-diamond-centre-store-closing-after-55-years-in-waterloo/
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 11-03-2015
Legacy Greens on King St E at Queen has signed a one year lease for its space - it may close for a while in January but will be open the rest of the coming year.
RE: General Retail News - tomh009 - 11-04-2015
(11-03-2015, 03:47 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Legacy Greens on King St E at Queen has signed a one year lease for its space - it may close for a while in January but will be open the rest of the coming year.
Excellent! We're moving downtown next week, so I'll plan to be a regular customer!
RE: General Retail News - panamaniac - 11-05-2015
The new Downtown Dollarama will open on November 11th.
RE: General Retail News - JoeKW - 11-06-2015
A new Juice Bar is opening up soon in downtown Kitchener:
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