West Edmonton Mall is a Globalist Monopoly that has Destroyed Retail
How is it that nobody in Edmonton can make a living selling clothing, when it is something everyone in this country must wear?
Answer- on the west side of this city, there is a globalist monopoly controlling the entire industry. They have already forced all of the local businesses out of business, cost thousands of job losses, and are preventing any other retail establishment from competing.
I momentarily decided to reopen my store again in another location in this city. I bought 9 boxes of inventory, and started to look for a new location to begin again in.
beginning with kingsway mall. I returned from New York, where I was in the Brandy Mellville location in lower Manhattan. Both times I was in that store, I stood in a line up of 10-15 people just to pay. This store was actually, the last of my favourite stores that was in Edmonton. They had a location on Europa Blvd. in West Edmonton Mall and, when they had a falling out with West Edmonton Mall, they moved to Kingsway. I spoke with them about this, the last time I was at their Kingsway store, and they informed me how slow the traffic was in that mall. When I returned from New York, I went to Kingsway Mall to compare the store, and it was gone. No more information needed here.
So then, I checked out Whyte Avenue. I found this cute little space that was 838 sq ft. and I called James Young to ask about the space. He told me it was $3000 per month. But as soon as I mentioned I would take it as a pop up, he was NOT interested. He wanted to trap me in a lease for 5 years. I then did some research on the previous tenant, and spoke with her. She told me how there was hardly ANY traffic on Whyte Ave and how she wished someone would've told her this before she moved in. And now the landlord is suing her for breaking the lease that they made her sign a personal guarantee for. And she told me she was paying $2700 per month. So when a tenant can't make it and they leave, and a landlord knows that, I would think that would mean they would LOWER the lease? Nope. They charge more, and try to find a new sucker they can sue when they realize what a mistake it was to take the space.
So then, I looked into South Common. busy, but huge corporate box stores that are 5000 square feet and up. I only need 1000.
Southgate, had one 4000 sq ft space available
I looked in to City Centre mall and Manulife, downtown. I noticed this ladies wear store that opened up. And beside it, a snowboard shop.
A month later, I saw the ladies wear store had the door closed. So I knocked on the door to ask what happened. A woman was in there and told me it was her daughters shop and she is packing it all up and sending everything back to BC. She and the Snowboard Shop won 3 months FREE rent. And still, couldn't make it work. She told me there was lots of people walking by, but it was all office clientele just going for lunch.
I took a trip downtown on Saturday December 15th, 2018 to see what shopping was like. I am thankful i didn't open up a store there and be stuck inside my cave called a store, doing nothing, just like I was when I was at West Edmonton Mall, with no customers in sight to help. My time was better spent with the yellow vests, outside in the cold, trying to fix this mess we are in.
This was my basement. Filled with old stock that the mall didn't get to steal from me. I boxed it all up. This retail collapse is something I have been researching since 2011, and it gets no media coverage from our mainstream media. Thousands and thousands of Canadian jobs have been lost over the last decade. Local business can NOT succeed selling apparel. There are even supplier, sales rep jobs in the middle that are lost, when the reps have no stores to sell to. West Edmonton Mall is a globalist shopping mall that has destroyed retail.
Answer- on the west side of this city, there is a globalist monopoly controlling the entire industry. They have already forced all of the local businesses out of business, cost thousands of job losses, and are preventing any other retail establishment from competing.
I momentarily decided to reopen my store again in another location in this city. I bought 9 boxes of inventory, and started to look for a new location to begin again in.
beginning with kingsway mall. I returned from New York, where I was in the Brandy Mellville location in lower Manhattan. Both times I was in that store, I stood in a line up of 10-15 people just to pay. This store was actually, the last of my favourite stores that was in Edmonton. They had a location on Europa Blvd. in West Edmonton Mall and, when they had a falling out with West Edmonton Mall, they moved to Kingsway. I spoke with them about this, the last time I was at their Kingsway store, and they informed me how slow the traffic was in that mall. When I returned from New York, I went to Kingsway Mall to compare the store, and it was gone. No more information needed here.
So then, I checked out Whyte Avenue. I found this cute little space that was 838 sq ft. and I called James Young to ask about the space. He told me it was $3000 per month. But as soon as I mentioned I would take it as a pop up, he was NOT interested. He wanted to trap me in a lease for 5 years. I then did some research on the previous tenant, and spoke with her. She told me how there was hardly ANY traffic on Whyte Ave and how she wished someone would've told her this before she moved in. And now the landlord is suing her for breaking the lease that they made her sign a personal guarantee for. And she told me she was paying $2700 per month. So when a tenant can't make it and they leave, and a landlord knows that, I would think that would mean they would LOWER the lease? Nope. They charge more, and try to find a new sucker they can sue when they realize what a mistake it was to take the space.
So then, I looked into South Common. busy, but huge corporate box stores that are 5000 square feet and up. I only need 1000.
Southgate, had one 4000 sq ft space available
I looked in to City Centre mall and Manulife, downtown. I noticed this ladies wear store that opened up. And beside it, a snowboard shop.
A month later, I saw the ladies wear store had the door closed. So I knocked on the door to ask what happened. A woman was in there and told me it was her daughters shop and she is packing it all up and sending everything back to BC. She and the Snowboard Shop won 3 months FREE rent. And still, couldn't make it work. She told me there was lots of people walking by, but it was all office clientele just going for lunch.
I took a trip downtown on Saturday December 15th, 2018 to see what shopping was like. I am thankful i didn't open up a store there and be stuck inside my cave called a store, doing nothing, just like I was when I was at West Edmonton Mall, with no customers in sight to help. My time was better spent with the yellow vests, outside in the cold, trying to fix this mess we are in.
This was my basement. Filled with old stock that the mall didn't get to steal from me. I boxed it all up. This retail collapse is something I have been researching since 2011, and it gets no media coverage from our mainstream media. Thousands and thousands of Canadian jobs have been lost over the last decade. Local business can NOT succeed selling apparel. There are even supplier, sales rep jobs in the middle that are lost, when the reps have no stores to sell to. West Edmonton Mall is a globalist shopping mall that has destroyed retail.
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