YAaa a new store in the south.....

[danny zubot]

Ya know, its funny how people used to condemn BA's all the time. Then they closed down and all of the sudden we miss them. Then we move our misguided LFS frustration, too quick to point the finger and submit to buyer beware warnings on to the next poor vendor in line.

Lets just see what they will offer us. I know that I'm not alone in my relief that there is finally another store to browse.

[kari]

Too far away

[rudy]

BA Edmonton is opening a store here. I was there the other week and they said they were currently looking for space to which I replied....good luck.

I definately don't miss BA as a store, but do miss the inverts. That is the problem with Calgary stores. Tons of fish and not enough weird and whacky inverts and such.

[Delphinus]

I'll throw my $.02 in, that probably wasn't directed at me, but since I know I've whined about missing Big Als, I'll chime in anyhow. I never really "condemned" Big Als myself, I bought there regularly, knew the guys and got along well with them. They weren't perfect but no LFS is (I've seen the "good" LFS's on bad days and let me tell you, it wasn't pretty, if I based my opinions on what I saw on those days alone, I would never shop at the ones that everyone is so gaga over how good they are. The bottom line is, LFS's are run by people, people are not infallible and everyone has good days and everyone has bad days).

There were a few things that I was unhappy about, but I always communicated my issues with them. Sometimes we had to agree to disagree, most of the time though, I was a happy regular.

I, for one, have been whining about the lack of representation down south for a long time. So regardless of who's behind the endeavour, I'm happy there's a store opening that I can consider closer by.

The way I look at it, as a hobby addict, a store has to "try" to get me to stop buying there. Whether it's travel time, livestock conditions, pricing, customer service, etc. etc. (or some combination thereof), the "default" position is that I'll go check it out, and let's face it, a happy customer is a repeat customer so if all goes well I'll be a regular.

[muck]

Hopefully all goes well so Tony can stop his whining too..

[Delphinus]

Shush you. I'll find something else to annoy you with.

[danny zubot]

BA Edmonton is opening a store here. I was there the other week and they said they were currently looking for space to which I replied....good luck.

They can buy my condo

[rudy]

I was also going to say that we are not the only ones bitching.

One thing I am growing very tired of is stores (especially new stores) bad mouthing others. I think there is a ton of business out there and if there is no current store in the South I think a Niche could be carved pretty easily there. The same thing with the new store in the N.W. as I know I will shop there by virtue of the fact that it is close. What was said about you have to convince me not to shop at a store is very true. Who here honestly shops exclusively at one store? I have my loyalties, but if somebody else has something I want and I don't dispise shopping there I will.
The statement about "the store in the S.E. that does not quarantine their fish and that is why it is so cheap", or they get the mixed boxes where we get the quality hand picked fish" wears really thin.

I hope the new store takes the high road and focuses on their store rather than everybody elses.

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by rudy

The statement about "the store in the S.E. that does not quarantine their fish and that is why it is so cheap", or they get the mixed boxes where we get the quality hand picked fish" wears really thin.

Mad marketing and information gathering skillZ.

[G1GY]

I'm happy to see a store opening in the south. I for one am getting sick of the number of "southerners" plugging up the isles in the north stores!