Target taking over Zellers (Canada VS America)

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Joelcool7 said:

AussieGecko said:

SamuelRSmith said:

Why would somebody care what country a company comes from?

more jobs in said market, profit goes back to country, patriotical pride

Biggest one, profit from Walmart, Target and all the other American companies goes where? Not spent in Canada or kept in Canada. It goes to the US. Target right now says they will double the amount of staff working at their stores, but Zellers did carry many Canadian products and invested alot of money in Canada which in turn meant more Canadian jobs.

Also yes I have patriotical pride in my countries stores. Sure Zellers is not the cheapest and is not Walmart. But it is at least was Canadian. I like knowing that Canada is different then America. Once Target takes over Zellers we will have most of the big American companies here in Canada and very few of our own.

I like visiting the states to shop at Target and other American stores like K-Mart. But that does not mean I want to see them all up here. I guess many Canadians don't seem to care that all our companies are being gobbled up but I certainly do. Canada is Canada it isn't Northern United States.

For me its an identity crisis, what seperates Canada's market from America's? If every Canadian retailer is owned by American companies and all our money goes to American corporations whats left thats truly Canadian?

As someone mentioned earlier, HBC is already American, and since Zellers was part of HBC, you are several years too late. Also, I remember K-Mart being here at some point a long time ago, but it died LOL... it's not always a success for American companies to come here. Anyways, I don't see why Canadian identity has to be defined by where we shop. We are more than that.