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| Never, i always find everything i need in Canada |
   
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26 | 34.21% |
| At least once a year |
  
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10 | 13.16% |
| I'm always there |
  
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1 | 1.32% |
| once a week |
  
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0 | 0% |
| once a month |
  
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6 | 7.89% |
| a few times a year |
  
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19 | 25.00% |
| i wait for a big order and then go get all my stuff at once |
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4 | 5.26% |
| I want to move there |
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7 | 9.21% |
| I think are stores should make a better job at stocking |
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3 | 3.95% |
| Voters: 76. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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#13
11-06-2013, 04:13 PM
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I worked in retail for MANY years before finding my path in life and I've managed and worked with the supply chain for much of that time. When it comes to delivery and stock companies consider US orders before fulfilling Canadian orders. This isn't always the case but in general that's the way it goes. A Lowes store in the US can order the same parts at the same time and if the distributor only has one on hand the US order is fulfilled first.
In Canada the distribution of inventory tends to flow from Ontario and then fan out from there. BCE is horrible for this, the buyers would get what they can from the distributors, BCE will fulfill Ontario orders and then distribute what was left to other markets. For the longest time Calgary was dead last in priority so they'd be putting items on sale that NEVER made it to the stores. Imagine how happy people are with that. It was an issue that we just couldn't resolve with the distribution chain. So being a Canadian and finding that a Canadian retail store doesn't have an item that they are supposed to have or dealing with frustrating shortages of what are supposed to be common materials I know where it's coming from. Big box stores discontinuing very popular products because they didn't sell well in Toronto etc. It just sucks being a secondary market. 
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11-06-2013, 04:20 PM
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I am reserving judgement until someone can tell me where I can find this in Strathmore or Calgary.
Clear netting Not interested in the garden variety gray or green stuff with 1/2 holes. Hell, for that matter, tell me where I can order it from an online Canadian shop.
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11-06-2013, 04:26 PM
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Well keeping on topic and reef related, I haven't shopped in the US yet except for chloroquine phosphate. I have now got a local vet to write a prescription so I can purchase locally. I would like to travel south for fish food IF I can find a way to get it across the border without ending up in jail. It seems the Canadian government had now made mixed frozen fish foods virtually impossible or unprofitable to import. Specifically I've been looking for Pro-Salt's Angel Diet. I have used this successfully for very finicky new fish as a first food where everything else has failed. Now I can not get it anywhere
 The new rules also seem to apply to Ocean Nutritions Angel Blend as well. So yes, I will cross border shop if I can find a way to import for personal use.
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11-06-2013, 04:29 PM
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11-06-2013, 04:30 PM
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I don't travel to the United States specifically to find things that I can't find here. It's the 20th century, that's what the Internet is for. I've found a lot of stuff online from various vendors across Canada.
Also, none of those polls options seem to apply to me! There should be another option it seems. "None of the above" Last edited by kien; 11-06-2013 at 04:32 PM.
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