Sounds like Novacks
LOL….no. Novacks was a good store…..strange store long ago….but good. Harry did well.
The place had charm, but was full of stock they couldn't move with London's population. Nobody took the initiative to advertise the stock online, so the products just sat in the display cases and on the racks hoping that someone might drop by. They didn't adapt and now a lovely little store with a lot of history is gone.
They do online sales, but they closed for other reasons….mostly $$$$.
On-line and brick and mortar stores are increasingly becoming one in the same, like MEC and Live out There. They realize that the two sales strategies can be symbiotic, attracting customers into the stores from the website and building the brand/spreading the word and reaching new customers.
It’s not possible for all brick and mortar stores. In this day and age every store should have a website for advertising …..and soon that will be the only advertising and eventually you will find both the phonebook and the yellow pages a thing of the past. That’s a good thing, considering what a rip off the yellow pages are. However for most brick and mortar stores to do on-line they would have to either carry a large amount of stock or have a company that is reliable in production and shipping. Nothing worse than a customer who doesn’t want to wait and wait for a product.
The Dundas and Adelaide store was a bad move and became a failure. Of course anything from Adelaide and Dundas east was especially a failure after the city council approved closing that stretch of Dundas down for an outdoor mall concept. There were good stores there like London Furniture but they folded because of the sudden lack of customers. The instigator of the whole disastrous idea was Fink, the owner of Lion Auto Supply (the location where the now poor excuse for a flea market is).....and Fink was the first one to go out of business. Looked good on him, but knowing Fink he probably made money off it somehow.
Because of the poor decisions of city hall and the planning departments, Dundas east of Adelaide fell into disarray and became virtually a ghost block of closed store fronts. After that the less fortunate moved in and then that went to drugs and prostitution. The same has happened in downtown London on Dundas......bad councils and bad planning (too many malls and city hall selling out to developers) which has killed Dundas between Talbot and Wellington, as well as Richmond between Queens and York.
I remember when Novacks downtown sold military surplus. I especially remember boxes of bayonets that were very unique. They were sharp on one side and on the other serrated like a saw blade. They had been outlawed by the Geneva Convention as ‘too cruel’ (if there is such a thing in war) because those types of wounds would rarely heal. Novacks sold them for 10 bucks a piece. If I had of known back then what I know now, I would have bought every one of them off Harry.
"Whether those buyers stick around and buy from Canadians has yet to be seen.."
If Canadians were to stop all buying on eBay from American sellers (it will never ever happen)there would be about $500,000,000 in spending potential to be spent in Canada!
Not that all of it would be spent on eBay but the money would remain in Canada. WIN WIN
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If Canadians were to stop all buying on eBay from American sellers (it will never ever happen)there would be about $500,000,000 in spending potential to be spent in Canada!
That's if you can find what you want......in Canada. Population in Canada 34,482,779. US population 313,914,040.
10 years ago and was ripped off.
I've bought a lot from the US over the years (quick estimate from my purchase file approx 33 grand) and only because someone there had what I wanted. Never had a problem, but it might be what I buy and who I buy it from, proven reliable sellers.
Did you know that US national anthem 'tune' was written by an Irishman for a rather '''wild''' pub in England? Just a bit of trivia, incase you ever end up on Jeopardy.
Englishman wrote "Danny Boy"?
Yep, but like the US anthem used an English tune.....Danny Boy's tune came from the Irish music 'Londonderry Air'. All of this was before the days of music copyrights.
US debt is approx 14.3 Trillion. Who owns that debt? Foreign governments hold about 46 percent of all U.S. debt. China owns 8%, approx 1.8 Trillion. Other large foreign holders of U.S. debt include Japan, which owns $912 billion; the United Kingdom, which owns $347 billion; Brazil, which holds $211 billion; Taiwan, which holds $153 billion; and Hong Kong, which owns $122 billion. These are who the US citizens owe and will be paying for generations to come.
‘’We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.’’
Thomas Jefferson
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale."
--Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816.
Get rid of the Federal Reserve
