Honestly, I'm not too shocked people don't shop at The Bay, as at least where I live, they have horrible customer service. Back around 2018 or so I went there looking for a pair of pants, couldn't find one in my size (46 waist). I asked one of their staff who rather snootily told me "at that size, you should be going to a Big and Tall store." I now get pants at Mark's Work Warehouse.
Some people really don't seem to get the concept of customer service. This reminds me of a time when I wanted to replace my Sony Discman, didn't want to wait for mail order, so I looked up online to see which local stores had them and what the prices were. The closest and least expensive was Staples, so I headed there.
The employee I usually dealt with was busy with another customer, so I went up to the nearest clerk and asked her to please tell me which aisle they kept the Sony Discman(s? Discmen?).
She looked down her nose at me and said, "Oh, we don't have those. Nobody's sold those in YEARS. You need to go to a pawn shop."
I asked her, if they hadn't sold these items in years, "Why did I find two different kinds on your store's website yesterday?" She insisted they didn't sell them, so I told her, "I will now go to your competitor and buy it there."
So online ordering it was, anyway, and received it a couple of days faster than expected. As for Staples, it took me three days to chase down the manager on the phone, tell him about what a clueless, unhelpful employee he had, and informed him that since she couldn't even be bothered to ask another employee, she lost my business to London Drugs - where they had exactly what I wanted, at a comparable price.
I told him that if a clerk didn't know how to resolve the customer's request, the correct response was not "We don't sell that/never sold that (a line of bull I was handed at a craft store by an employee who couldn't be bothered to find an answer for me)". The correct response is "I don't know, but I'll ask someone else/my supervisor to help you." I then recommended the employee be given remedial customer service training. He mumbled something and hung up.
From The Onion....
How Canadians Are Fighting Back Against U.S. Tariffs
As the trade war heats up, Canada has imposed 25% retaliatory tariffs on billions of dollars of U.S. goods. Here are all the other ways Canada is fighting back:
I love these!
Especially:
Going shelf to shelf to boo imported American groceries
Aiming all snowblowers in direction of U.S. border
Raising legal drinking age to 37 for American tourists
With that last one, if any of them complain, just tell them that 37 is 18 in metric.
so we're looking at election day even of April/first week of May.
sadly it looks like my riding will keep the utter waste of space that is our current MP though it's not helped by the liberals not having selected the candidate (and are blaming the federal party).
poilievre asked ford for help and advice and was told nope - too busy.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford told Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre he would be too busy governing Ontario to help in the upcoming federal election campaign.
www.thestar.com
I never thought I'd see a time when Ford could behave like a statesman, at least some of the time. Good for him.
I thought they kinda hated each other... I'm surprised he even asked!
You don't have to like someone to be a political ally. Ford must really detest PP/think his policies are BS!C.
Poilievre is the same kind of one-note liar that Trump and Danielle Smith are.
fair but Alberta needs to get over this notion they have god-given right to run it's pipelines through everyone else's province.
I'm in the position of someone who prefers to treat the environment and other provinces with respect, but at the same time I know that oil/gas revenues help fund the disability benefit that keeps me alive. How else should we transport the oil, since industrial transporters haven't been invented yet?
yes I doubt it crosses the mind of many in Alberta that when the province is raking the oil dollars in means the rest of the country is paying extra at the pump cos oil prices are up.
The thing with "raking the oil dollars in" is that most of us don't see much from it. I just mentioned the disability benefit I'm on. It falls nearly $10k short of what's considered the poverty line for a single adult in this province. In the meantime, the premier builds vanity projects like new arenas where most people in this province will never be able to afford to attend whatever games or concerts or conventions are held there, and she's been scampering back and forth to the U.S. to cuddle up to Trump and his equally revolting gang for the past two months - more than two months, actually. She's been wasting millions on this.
