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From talking with Canadians, are folks happy with that?

Target didn't stay very long in Canada.

It seems every store has a "Canadian alternative" that's just pricier and has less product. I always hear about cross border shopping being done in the US to bring back goods in Canada but never the other way around. Even for cars it seems the same car will sell for way much north of the border.

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Target made two mistakes. The first was making a deal to lease all the former Zellers locations, which was too many to handle at the start. The second, was to rely on their US-based logistics software that wasn't capable of handling multi-country inventory and tracking (like different currencies).

I loved Target. As a single dad, I loved the variety of kids clothes they had. They still carried the brands that Zellers did but they had their own from the US too. I was so disappointed when I heard they were leaving. I didn’t believe it at first but sadly it turned out to be true.

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