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  1. He figures there are now between 250 to 300 independent video stores left in Canada, mostly in small towns. That's a drop from an estimated 600 in 2012. Beyond that, he said there are an ...

    • Blockbuster

      About 150 Blockbuster Canada stores were closed in June, as...

    • Rogers Video

      Rogers has officially bailed on the video store business. In...

    • Cape Breton

      Sydney Video Ashby is part of what was once a chain of...

    • Lockdowns The Final Push Toward Streaming
    • 'Sistine Chapel of Video Stores'
    • 'Got to Be Part of Their Evening'

    Pandemic shutdowns for non-essential businesses took too high a toll and has forced That's Entertainment to close its doors, Switzer said. Traffic was steady at the store before provincial lockdowns, but Switzer said any momentum they had, "just kind of dropped off." The temporary closures drove the last loyal customers to streaming services, said ...

    "I remember when the walls were all pink and we had a completely different setup," Switzer said. "Or we had our kids section over here by the wall. It was a raised little platform with a big screen TV at the end and little cars sitting on there for kids to sit like they're at the drive-in." In 2000, the store commissioned a Toronto artist to create...

    Switzer credits the store's ability to stay open for so long to the breadth of product offered and a dedicated team of employees. "Having the selection that we had, having lots of selection of copies of things and just having staff that were passionate about the product was always important," Switzer said. Staff were always willing to chat and shar...

  2. Types of items purchased from thrift stores by consumers in Canada 2020 Share of Canadians that shop at thrift stores once a month 11.05%

  3. Finance & Taxation | Retail By The Numbers | Store Operations. Retail By The Numbers. RCC has replaced the monthly Retail By The Numbers publication with the Retail Pulse Dashboard, a new interactive platform that delivers data on Canadian retail sales, retail job numbers, economic data, credit and debit card spending and consumer behaviour in one online tool on the Retail Council of Canada ...

  4. Dec 13, 2022 · I found out about this store in a news article. They've been in business for over forty years, the store got a new owner in 2020, and even though video stores are largely a thing of the past, this one somehow survived the pandemic. The store has pretty much everything: VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4K, collectibles, drinks, snacks, and popcorn. I believe ...

  5. When Statistics Canada (StatCan) released the April 2020 unadjusted and seasonally adjusted retail sales datasets on which Retail by the Numbers is based, StatCan included their own analysis of seasonally adjusted total provincial sales.

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  7. Sep 6, 2021 · Blockbuster stores in Canada shut down in 2011 and now there is only one Blockbuster left in the world in Bend, Ore. Rogers closed its video stores in 2012.. Now, though, there are more streaming ...