Talk:List of Canadian stores

"Canadian"

I think we're going to have to define "Canadian" for this article. Not all these firms were founded in Canada and not all were Canadian-owned. HistoryBA 13:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

A.V. Roe

A.V. Roe did not cease operations nor was it taken over in a merger... and it was never a retail store. The name was changed from A.V. Roe to Hawker-Siddley to Orenda to Magellan. DeweyQ 21:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Incomplete Listing

This list is by no means complete. The only category it contains is grocery stores, and we already have an article for that: List of supermarket chains in Canada. It should include other types of stores, for example: HBC, Sears, Dollarama, Tim Hortons...otherwise, what's the point of this article, and what makes it different from the aforementioned one? Jmajeremy (talk) 16:14, 3 July 2011 (UTC)

Please remove non-Canadian companies listed

Walmart is NOT a Canadian company and I agree that the other Canadian companies such as Tim Horton's or Dollarama should also be listed over and above United States corporations such as Walmart. As a financial contributor to Wikipedia, I am offended at the inaccuracy of this article and the inclusion of non-Canadian corporations in this list. - User:24.244.253.250

I think we need to clarify what this list is trying to do. Is it:

1. a list of Canadian-owned stores, or
2. a list of store operating in Canada?

Number 1 is problematic because ownership changes. Hudson's Bay, for example, is owned by an American company, as is Dollarama. Tim Horton's is owned by a Brazilian company. Should these be excluded? At least the Walmart link is the article on Walmart Canada.

More to the point, it is a pretty crappy list that does a bad job of duplicating Category:Retail companies of Canada. Maybe the best solution is to delete the list article. Ground Zero | t 13:53, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

I agree. Calling Tiger Direct a Canadian company is ridiculous. Gentleman wiki (talk) 03:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

I am sorry but Dollarama is indeed a Canadian company founded by the Montreal based Rossy family. The headquarters are located in Montreal and there are no branches outside of Canada. Yes, Bain owns a majority of the shares with the rest listed on the Toronto stock exchange (and some possibly still owned by the Rossy family). While Bain most likely controls the board the day-to-day operations are still handled by Neil Rossy. People at Bain's may very well say that they own "the Canadian company Dollarama". So what makes a Canadian company "Canadian"? Its place of business and where its customer base is located? Who makes the decisions? Who owns it? Where the headquarters are located (as long as its not a location selected solely for tax haven purposes)? Probably all of these. Gentleman wiki (talk) 03:40, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Tim Horton's, Inc., still exists as a Canadian company. Its parent is Restaurant Brands International, Inc., also a Canadian company located in Toronto. While a little over 50% of the shares in RBI are currently held by a Brazilian company (the rest floating on the TSE & NYSE), it would be quite a stretch to call Tim Horton's a Brazilian company. I doubt that many Brazilians have ever heard of Tim Horton's which has no stores in Brazil just like you would be hard pressed to find many Canadians who have never heard of Tim Horton's where the vast majority of its stores are. Gentleman wiki (talk) 04:02, 14 April 2020 (UTC)

Dollarama

Dollarama is incorrectly listed under "Convenience Stores". It is not a convenience store.
- Their product range does not include typical convenience store offerings such as fresh products: milk, cheese, eggs, limited choice of fruits & vegetables, or frozen products.
- Dollarama does not have an alcohol license -- they do not sell beer & wine.
- Dollarama does not sell tobacco products.
- Dollarama does not have services often (but not always) provided by convenience stores such as faxing, photocopying, and wire transfers.
- At the same time Dollarama also offers products that are not typically available at convenience stores such as home furnishings and clothing items.
- While this varies by jurisdiction Dollarama does not typically have the same extended hours (and even less 24 hrs) operations that convenience stores have.
- Finally Dollarama price points are often lower than at other stores including grocery stores while convenience stores would sell at a higher price as you are paying for the "convenience" of a neighboring store and extended hours. The two have completely opposite commercial strategies.

Dollar stores very much have their own category that is not unlike the old general stores. Gentleman wiki (talk) 04:05, 14 April 2020 (UTC)