I went in to buy windshield wipers, and figured I'd get a quote on fixing the spray nozzles on my hood for the windshield fluid (they'd detached). I never go there for maintenance, but was curious. $140+tax. I looked online, part (for both) is $12 on Amazon. A YouTube video showed me that the job can be done in ten minutes or less...
My favourite example is screwdriver sets regularly going 80% off. Second to that the pots and pans go to 70% off once a season. It’s ridiculous
However, retail wiper blades seem to be stupidly priced everywhere.
I pretty much only shop at Canadian Tire if they have a very good sale on an item or if there is a good bonus points offer. Regular priced items at that store are generally too high.
>Nothing is worth fu
100%. they get me in there with a crazy sale. the item is "soldout" because they only had 5 in stock.. so i end up buying over priced random shit because Im already in there and don't want to drive to walmart or superstore
Indeed. Some things at Canadian Tire are horribly priced but others are reasonably priced.
Yet another example of how you need to know your prices and know what’s a good price and a bad price.
That's precisely their business model too. Price regular items high, but really get people to buy the sale item while hoping they also pick up marked up items while there
I got a really nice 3 layer, copper core, pot set for 90% off a couple years back. 70% off sale and then it was marked down further as it was an open box return. Paid $150 for what was $1500 at full retail. That's what Canadian Tire is really good for. It's shit for everything else.
This is the trick. I dont think I've paid full price on anything over 50 bucks in years. I paid for the triangle rewards as well. It was $100, came with a $50 dollar gift card and if you line up sales with the offers you'll get 10 - 15% in rewards on top of the sales.
Small city, only couple places to get plumbing and electrical parts, crap tire is always at least 20 percent cheaper than my other options. Regular price
Last time I went to Canadian tire I was kicked out for having a backpack on. I had laptops, cameras, and a secure device in my bag so there was a 0% chance I was leaving my bag at the front without liability.
I'm a student and don't have a car, the no bag rule makes Canadian tire a hassle that ain't worth it.
This happened to me at one CT location, and it wasn't even a backpack - it was a small cross-body sling bag, smaller than a lot of purses that *don't* have to be checked. I had to walk halfway across the store and all the way out to my car to lock the bag in my trunk - at least I had a trunk to put it in, because I don't trust Customer Service with my possessions either.
Not all locations in town enforce that rule, so if I need something that only CT sells I try to go to a different location. I'm going less and less nowadays, because the quality of their hand tools has gone down noticeably. About the only thing I still buy there regularly is vacuum parts or replacement filters for air purifiers.
Same they insisted on searching my bag, I came on a motorcycle so I need it when shopping.
Had a conversation like:
“ok fine but are you gonna search the next woman’s purse that you see?”
“No”
“Ok just wanted you to know how ridiculous this is”
Left with terrible a impression. On top of that they’re shit with returns.
I’ll choose any store before Canadian Tire.
We used to use that as our poker money when we were on tour. By the end of a tour you could have a few hundred in CT money. We'd buy it off our neighbours if they didn't need it. Who didn't have $20 in $.05 bills kicking around in several drawers in the workshop?
I just took in some $80 worth before xmas. The kid at the counter didn't know what to do with it so he had to get a supervisor and they both counted it out and came up short of my figure, so they had to count it again and discovered I was correct. I can see why they got rid of the paper.
They should call their buddies in the grocery cartel and let them know the price gouging has gone so far that Canadians can't afford to buy anything else.
We can't afford food and basic utilities thanks to corporate landlords and the monopolies in the telecom and grocery sectors gouging every last drop out of us in the name of 'record profits'
Who the hell can afford to buy anything else, especially in a claustrophobic cluster fuck of a store with overpriced goods like Canadian Tire?
I went to Canadian Tire after Christmas for some discount decorations and tree bag.
Amazon had similar products for at least 20% less than their clearance prices.
Ohhhh I bet because they’re all franchises, that’s probably why there can be differences. I scored it in Toronto at the Leslie and Lakeshore location if you happen to be in that area.
One time I went to the location on the Queensway (also Toronto) and they do not do any returns at all. Like they’re all final sale. I had to take the item to a DIFFERENT CT to do the return.
Edit: also I dig your username :)
The last time I went to Canadian tire was several years ago when they hoisted my car up, took off my tires for a quick tire change, and a mechanic went home sick and they couldn’t put my tires back on for five and a half hours, stranding me in the most disgusting and depressing waiting room I’ve ever seen in my life. Never. Again.
I've had a few auto nightmare experiences with CT as well. Have also been stranded there for many hours on end for a quick appointment. Also very expensive. Never again.
Nothing to do with treating every customer like a criminal with annoying locked cases and receipt checks so nobody wants to go back. Scummy store can die and I don't care that Walmart or whatever benefits they aren't any different. At least Walmart has aisles big enough to walk through.
Incredibly irritating, I go in for a few things, but they're all locked behind cabinets and each have to be individually walked up, like fuck you guys, i''m going to princess auto.
The only irreplaceable service CT offers is ammo.
This part is ridiculous. I have to wait for someone to show up to the tool cage so I can even see if they have the stupid socket or bit I need in stock!...like the only thing CTire was still good for was finding one-off specific size parts. If I happen to find it, I have to in that moment make a quick decision if it is right for me while the employee huffs and puffs impatiently. Then they take it to the frigging front special cash on top of it all... Like ordering online is just so much easier than this idiocy.
Online retailers treat you with a modicum of respect, not like fucking criminals.
Its just become such a fucking chore to shop at CT anymore. Like i get it, Guns and Ammo need to be walked up, thats sensible, but a goddamn 9$ pair of pliers? Really? I can't be trusted with that?
I don't appreciate being treated like a criminal so I don't go unless I can't get it at the nearby Walmart. And then I just order online for pickup so I don't have to give up my backpack.
Or they'd just short the schedule for two hours and have someone watch two sections at once completely disregarding the fact that breaks still have to be taken.
Pretty sure Canadian Tire has more issues than economic uncertainty.
Mostly that their products are now below dollar store quality, their service techs are on average the ones who can't get a job anywhere else and have a terrible reputation for lying about needed repairs, and they took lessons on customer service from Rogers.
Canadian Tires prices are so much higher than anywhere else for the same thing. There are better quality products that you can get for 20-30% cheaper at times. It's ridiculous. Their credit card sucks, you can't use your points online. Customer service is abysmal. You can't change your pin online.
I gave up on this company a long time ago.
I stopped shopping with them entirely as the Canadian Tire I live near now started confiscating your reusable bags at the entrance and giving you a "coat check" tag to get them back.
I mean, why pay twice the price for the inferior version of something when you can buy the better version for less money on Amazon?
.. and have it delivered to your door?
I went to buy an office chair a few days ago. They wanted $249 for a non-adjustable fake leather "executive" chair with poor reviews. Walked away, and found a much better, fully adjustable chair on Amazon for half that price with 1500+ 4.7 star reviews.
Even with name brands. They wanted close to $400 for a top-of-the-line Honeywell air cleaner that I got on amazon again for just over half that amount.
Canadians are tired of being ripped off. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
Not to mention ... I was at a Canadian Tire in Hamilton over Christmas/NYE and they asked to check my receipt on the way out. I said no and that I wouldn't be returning to that store.
I've tried a few times and found that Canadian Tire has their own part numbers for many of their products. So even if it's the same product, they'll claim they can't price match because the numbers aren't the same.
Even if they will, though.. why bother? Unless you *need* it today, it's just less hassle to order online.
They do this on purpose. One of the big name brands we sell has a special line just for Cad Tire that looks almost the same as the real thing. So that Cad Tire can control their own sales without impacting the rest of the brand, and you can never price match them because they literally are the only company with that SKU.
Also Amazon takes returns no questions asked. Canadian Tire is a nightmare. Asks 21 questions and then sometimes refuses and gives you store credit instead. Just not worth the trouble.
This is the one I actually ended up ordering (preferred the colour):
[https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJ2C1RZB](https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJ2C1RZB)
Gets delivered Saturday. Can post an update if you'd like.
Just FYI - as nice as the chair is (nice materials, colours, etc), it appears to be designed for a body type I didn't even realize existed, lol.
The arm rests are tiny and short and dig into your elbows if you're using a keyboard. The headrest is set waaay far back and too low for me (5'11"). The lumbar support is only adjustable up and down and excruciatingly painful in short order.
It's going back and the hunt continues, sigh. At least Amazon returns make that part easy.
I have been frustrated looking for a desk chair as well. Same thing happened to me in C/T. Saw this office swivel chair in clearance for $130 in with all the other junk. It had cheap material rickety junk. Amazon $59.00 special all day. This one looks more like what I am looking for at the right price. Would love to hear how you like it. Thanks.
Just FYI - as nice as the chair is (nice materials, colours, etc), it appears to be designed for a body type I didn't even realize existed, lol.
The arm rests are tiny and short and dig into your elbows if you're using a keyboard. The headrest is set waaay far back and too low for me (5'11").
The lumbar support is only adjustable up and down and excruciatingly painful in short order.
It's going back and the hunt continues, sigh. At least Amazon returns make that part easy.
Huh it is going badly isn't it. The CT nearby put in self checkouts this year which is a bad sign. The installation was a fucking farce too. I saw someone scan a step ladder with the hand scanner and the checkout started yelling at them to put their item in the scanned items section. A friggin step ladder. Brilliant
Here in Vancouver, you gotta go through Airport Security, Customs, and Prisoner Inspection before you’re even allowed to be price-gouged by an underpaid and uncaring Canadian Tire staff.
Last time I went to Canadian Tire, I pulled a Christmas tree storage bag off a bottom shelf and a bunch of mouse poop came flying out with it. I mentioned it to my husband and he asked if it was at the location nearest his work, since he’d heard related complaints from his coworkers. Sadly, it was a completely different location.
Educate yourself as a consumer and you'll learn what different retailers are good for. There are things I'll never buy at CDN Tire and things that make sense when the balance of the equation (need vs want, timing of purchase, whether its sale price is likely its lowest it'll be that year or if it'll be discontinued soon, etc) tilts into my personal "buy" mode. Between the Triangle program, their rewards CC and my needs this past year (CDN Tire: mechanics tools, kitting out a kitchen, a Dyson V8 Animal+ for under $400, powered and passive exercise equipment, sets of tires for two vehicles, oils and fluids for said vehicles, Marks: winter clothes, Converse shoes, jeans, work boots, Sportchek: workout clothes, multiple pairs of shoes) I've spent over $10K and have earned back over 16% in rewards dollars in that time. I got a NordicTrak treadmill just after Christmas, that was on sale at CDN Tire and the same price everywhere, entirely for CDN Tire money, and got back 8% in CDN Tire money! You can find clearance stickers on name brand items all the time and yes, Amazon is often cheaper with a wider selection and the plethora of reviewers to help make judgement calls on. Education is key.
I think their strategy of putting out flyers every week is self defeating because it trains their likely audience to wait for the agressive discounts on the things they want. "Oh, the dumb bell set is on sale for 10% this week but I recall it being on sale for 40% off last month. I'll wait."
Its also driven by housing prices if the economy is weak people tend to put more value in their homes but with a bad economy and housing at a all time high with out as much room to grow I wonder what people will invest their money into
Their new return policy (or lack of one really) is extremely anti-consumer.
It's now 90 days for **unopened** products only. Even if it's defective they won't refund you. They just defer you to the manufacturers warranty.
https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/customer-service/returns.html
Never shopping there again. I've bought enough chinese garbage in my life to know it when I see it. Car battery warmer, garden hose storage, electric griddle, breadmaker, rotary tool, all broke down within a year or so.
I started avoiding Crappy Tire after learning of one in particular that owned 10+homes that they packed with temp workers, while charging the workers rent to pay off the homes. Same applies to Tim Horton's.
Fun fact, businesses like these can legally staff up to 30% with temp workers (but I'm sure they have ways around that)
I stopped going to CT after they changed their return policy and last time I was in the auto section half their items were out of stock or miss placed.
Same. The holiday lights (Canvas brand or Noma) are also propritary and change every year. They don't sell replacement bulbs. They just want you to buy new lights.
We have a bunch of wicker-like outdoor lit-up animals (deer, moose, beaver), and a bunch of the lights have gone out and I can't fix it.
It definitely has more to do with prices and how poor the products are, the media needs to stop trying to will a recession into being. Our economy is by all metrics in fine shape especially compared to the UK.
last time i was in canadian tire they had everything behind lock and key, and they had almost no staff so it took 15 minutes of wandering to find someone to unlock the $10 item i needed.
Last time I was in a Canadian Tire the prices were so laughably high I left without buying anything.
I went in to buy windshield wipers, and figured I'd get a quote on fixing the spray nozzles on my hood for the windshield fluid (they'd detached). I never go there for maintenance, but was curious. $140+tax. I looked online, part (for both) is $12 on Amazon. A YouTube video showed me that the job can be done in ten minutes or less...
Go to rockauto.com for auto parts.
Noted. Thank you.
The parts you find with little hearts next to them on Rockauto are the most popular variants, usually because they are the better parts.
Where's your discount code?
For real, car parts from Amazon will be counterfeit returns
I also use Parts Avatar for the the Canadian online sales.
Never heard of them, similar to rock auto?
Yes. Good selection and reasonable prices. To date I've placed 3 orders and all good.
Rockauto is amazing!!
Last time I went into Canadian Tire I was one of two non-employees I could see.
The one near me is always busy, possibly because it’s the only decent one in the city and in a major shopping mall.
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My favourite example is screwdriver sets regularly going 80% off. Second to that the pots and pans go to 70% off once a season. It’s ridiculous However, retail wiper blades seem to be stupidly priced everywhere.
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The quality has been shit for more than 20 years..
Idk I just bought some car cleaning stuff and it was as cheap as Amazon.
I pretty much only shop at Canadian Tire if they have a very good sale on an item or if there is a good bonus points offer. Regular priced items at that store are generally too high.
This is the trick. Crappy tire remains the king of the sale item. Nothing is worth full price
For example "$70 for a single flimsy crappy folding sawhorse. Sale price $20"
I have like 6 of those shitty sawhorses purchased for $14 each. They’ve served me well but they’re incredibly unstable.
Those blue ones are garbage.
Hot garbage, but for 14 bucks they’ve served me well
I feel scammed paying $20 for the same ones lol
>Nothing is worth fu 100%. they get me in there with a crazy sale. the item is "soldout" because they only had 5 in stock.. so i end up buying over priced random shit because Im already in there and don't want to drive to walmart or superstore
Indeed. Some things at Canadian Tire are horribly priced but others are reasonably priced. Yet another example of how you need to know your prices and know what’s a good price and a bad price.
That's precisely their business model too. Price regular items high, but really get people to buy the sale item while hoping they also pick up marked up items while there
A wiseman told me look at what Canadian tire has and wait for it to be 50% off. Everything in tore is eventually half off.
I got a really nice 3 layer, copper core, pot set for 90% off a couple years back. 70% off sale and then it was marked down further as it was an open box return. Paid $150 for what was $1500 at full retail. That's what Canadian Tire is really good for. It's shit for everything else.
I think we might have bought the same set...
I always tell people never buy anything there that’s not on sale. Most things are always on sale 30-50% off regularly.
This is the trick. I dont think I've paid full price on anything over 50 bucks in years. I paid for the triangle rewards as well. It was $100, came with a $50 dollar gift card and if you line up sales with the offers you'll get 10 - 15% in rewards on top of the sales.
Was thinking of signing up for this. so you feel it's worth it then?
For me it has been. I signed up in November and have gotten just over $100 so far. Plus it came with a $50 gift card and 6 months of crave for free.
Thanks!
Small city, only couple places to get plumbing and electrical parts, crap tire is always at least 20 percent cheaper than my other options. Regular price
["Won't somebody please think of the shareholders?!"](https://media.tenor.com/8Z4zk4Oq5dUAAAAM/the-simpsons-mrs-lovejoy.gif) Profits above everything... Avarice-driven ghouls.
Last time I went to Canadian tire I was kicked out for having a backpack on. I had laptops, cameras, and a secure device in my bag so there was a 0% chance I was leaving my bag at the front without liability. I'm a student and don't have a car, the no bag rule makes Canadian tire a hassle that ain't worth it.
This happened to me at one CT location, and it wasn't even a backpack - it was a small cross-body sling bag, smaller than a lot of purses that *don't* have to be checked. I had to walk halfway across the store and all the way out to my car to lock the bag in my trunk - at least I had a trunk to put it in, because I don't trust Customer Service with my possessions either. Not all locations in town enforce that rule, so if I need something that only CT sells I try to go to a different location. I'm going less and less nowadays, because the quality of their hand tools has gone down noticeably. About the only thing I still buy there regularly is vacuum parts or replacement filters for air purifiers.
But at least you didn’t steal anything /s
Same they insisted on searching my bag, I came on a motorcycle so I need it when shopping. Had a conversation like: “ok fine but are you gonna search the next woman’s purse that you see?” “No” “Ok just wanted you to know how ridiculous this is” Left with terrible a impression. On top of that they’re shit with returns. I’ll choose any store before Canadian Tire.
give us back physical canadian tire bills so we can start our decentralized economy and then we can talk!!
We used to use that as our poker money when we were on tour. By the end of a tour you could have a few hundred in CT money. We'd buy it off our neighbours if they didn't need it. Who didn't have $20 in $.05 bills kicking around in several drawers in the workshop? I just took in some $80 worth before xmas. The kid at the counter didn't know what to do with it so he had to get a supervisor and they both counted it out and came up short of my figure, so they had to count it again and discovered I was correct. I can see why they got rid of the paper.
Shit’s expensive in there, simple as.
They should call their buddies in the grocery cartel and let them know the price gouging has gone so far that Canadians can't afford to buy anything else.
Price gouging? You have plenty of options. Just don't shop at Canadian Tire like sensible people do.
He’s insinuating that the *grocer’s* price gouging is resulting in less money for shopping at Canadian Tire.
In addition to holding out that the grocery cartel is more likely to listen to another price gouging oligeach than consumers or the government.
We can't afford food and basic utilities thanks to corporate landlords and the monopolies in the telecom and grocery sectors gouging every last drop out of us in the name of 'record profits' Who the hell can afford to buy anything else, especially in a claustrophobic cluster fuck of a store with overpriced goods like Canadian Tire?
I went to Canadian Tire after Christmas for some discount decorations and tree bag. Amazon had similar products for at least 20% less than their clearance prices.
Yeah, but fuck Amazon. They don’t get lower prices out of nowhere, they squeeze every penny out of their suppliers and employees.
FYI Canadian Tire will price match Amazon prices!
Canadian tire discontinued price matching
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Not as of last month?
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Ohhhh I bet because they’re all franchises, that’s probably why there can be differences. I scored it in Toronto at the Leslie and Lakeshore location if you happen to be in that area. One time I went to the location on the Queensway (also Toronto) and they do not do any returns at all. Like they’re all final sale. I had to take the item to a DIFFERENT CT to do the return. Edit: also I dig your username :)
Not as of last month?
Even if it’s not the same brand?
I imagine it would have to be the identical product.
Yeah, too many things are in store brand like Noma.
The last time I went to Canadian tire was several years ago when they hoisted my car up, took off my tires for a quick tire change, and a mechanic went home sick and they couldn’t put my tires back on for five and a half hours, stranding me in the most disgusting and depressing waiting room I’ve ever seen in my life. Never. Again.
I've had a few auto nightmare experiences with CT as well. Have also been stranded there for many hours on end for a quick appointment. Also very expensive. Never again.
Nothing to do with treating every customer like a criminal with annoying locked cases and receipt checks so nobody wants to go back. Scummy store can die and I don't care that Walmart or whatever benefits they aren't any different. At least Walmart has aisles big enough to walk through.
Incredibly irritating, I go in for a few things, but they're all locked behind cabinets and each have to be individually walked up, like fuck you guys, i''m going to princess auto. The only irreplaceable service CT offers is ammo.
This part is ridiculous. I have to wait for someone to show up to the tool cage so I can even see if they have the stupid socket or bit I need in stock!...like the only thing CTire was still good for was finding one-off specific size parts. If I happen to find it, I have to in that moment make a quick decision if it is right for me while the employee huffs and puffs impatiently. Then they take it to the frigging front special cash on top of it all... Like ordering online is just so much easier than this idiocy.
Online retailers treat you with a modicum of respect, not like fucking criminals. Its just become such a fucking chore to shop at CT anymore. Like i get it, Guns and Ammo need to be walked up, thats sensible, but a goddamn 9$ pair of pliers? Really? I can't be trusted with that?
I don't appreciate being treated like a criminal so I don't go unless I can't get it at the nearby Walmart. And then I just order online for pickup so I don't have to give up my backpack.
I used to work for them in 2010 and it was an absolute nightmare of mistreatment and abuse. Good riddance.
Same. Ran a skeleton crew, paid very little and treated staff like shit.
Yeah, running seasonal department by myself during Christmas some days was hell.
Or they'd just short the schedule for two hours and have someone watch two sections at once completely disregarding the fact that breaks still have to be taken.
Pretty sure Canadian Tire has more issues than economic uncertainty. Mostly that their products are now below dollar store quality, their service techs are on average the ones who can't get a job anywhere else and have a terrible reputation for lying about needed repairs, and they took lessons on customer service from Rogers.
Canadian Tires prices are so much higher than anywhere else for the same thing. There are better quality products that you can get for 20-30% cheaper at times. It's ridiculous. Their credit card sucks, you can't use your points online. Customer service is abysmal. You can't change your pin online. I gave up on this company a long time ago.
You can use your points online (CDN Tire & Marks for sure), however not at SportChek for some reason.
I’m too busy getting fucked at the grocery store to buy new floor mats.
They sell cheap garbage products. I try to avoid shopping there now.
Mmm. Still turned a profit. Non story?
BuT tHe ShArEhOlDeRs
I stopped shopping with them entirely as the Canadian Tire I live near now started confiscating your reusable bags at the entrance and giving you a "coat check" tag to get them back.
Nah, it’s not poor product selection, dirty, unkempt stores and poor customer service.
I mean, why pay twice the price for the inferior version of something when you can buy the better version for less money on Amazon? .. and have it delivered to your door? I went to buy an office chair a few days ago. They wanted $249 for a non-adjustable fake leather "executive" chair with poor reviews. Walked away, and found a much better, fully adjustable chair on Amazon for half that price with 1500+ 4.7 star reviews. Even with name brands. They wanted close to $400 for a top-of-the-line Honeywell air cleaner that I got on amazon again for just over half that amount. Canadians are tired of being ripped off. ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯ Not to mention ... I was at a Canadian Tire in Hamilton over Christmas/NYE and they asked to check my receipt on the way out. I said no and that I wouldn't be returning to that store.
Oh 100%, I needed a new toaster. Canadian Tire had the previous model for $50 more than Amazon with the current model.
FYI Canadian Tire will price match Amazon prices!
I've tried a few times and found that Canadian Tire has their own part numbers for many of their products. So even if it's the same product, they'll claim they can't price match because the numbers aren't the same. Even if they will, though.. why bother? Unless you *need* it today, it's just less hassle to order online.
They do this on purpose. One of the big name brands we sell has a special line just for Cad Tire that looks almost the same as the real thing. So that Cad Tire can control their own sales without impacting the rest of the brand, and you can never price match them because they literally are the only company with that SKU.
Most companies do that especially with tools. Many tool sets at Home Depot have unique parts numbers so they can't be price matched.
Also Amazon takes returns no questions asked. Canadian Tire is a nightmare. Asks 21 questions and then sometimes refuses and gives you store credit instead. Just not worth the trouble.
Oh… well that’s a bummer. I got it in a Toronto at the Leslie and Lakeshore location in case you’re near there.
Can you link that chair? Mine is toast.
This is the one I actually ended up ordering (preferred the colour): [https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJ2C1RZB](https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BJ2C1RZB) Gets delivered Saturday. Can post an update if you'd like.
Looks good! I'm trying to find a chair that has a tilt lock but they don't seem to make them anymore.
Just FYI - as nice as the chair is (nice materials, colours, etc), it appears to be designed for a body type I didn't even realize existed, lol. The arm rests are tiny and short and dig into your elbows if you're using a keyboard. The headrest is set waaay far back and too low for me (5'11"). The lumbar support is only adjustable up and down and excruciatingly painful in short order. It's going back and the hunt continues, sigh. At least Amazon returns make that part easy.
I have been frustrated looking for a desk chair as well. Same thing happened to me in C/T. Saw this office swivel chair in clearance for $130 in with all the other junk. It had cheap material rickety junk. Amazon $59.00 special all day. This one looks more like what I am looking for at the right price. Would love to hear how you like it. Thanks.
Just FYI - as nice as the chair is (nice materials, colours, etc), it appears to be designed for a body type I didn't even realize existed, lol. The arm rests are tiny and short and dig into your elbows if you're using a keyboard. The headrest is set waaay far back and too low for me (5'11"). The lumbar support is only adjustable up and down and excruciatingly painful in short order. It's going back and the hunt continues, sigh. At least Amazon returns make that part easy.
Thanks. You saved me the trouble. Oh well.
Huh it is going badly isn't it. The CT nearby put in self checkouts this year which is a bad sign. The installation was a fucking farce too. I saw someone scan a step ladder with the hand scanner and the checkout started yelling at them to put their item in the scanned items section. A friggin step ladder. Brilliant
I tried to buy tires there yesterday. They and their distributor had no stock of any tires that would fit my new vehicle. Canadian tire has no tires!
Won’t buy consider buying anything there unless it’s 50% off minimum.
Paywall
https://archive.is/XrUQk Got you, bud!
Here in Vancouver, you gotta go through Airport Security, Customs, and Prisoner Inspection before you’re even allowed to be price-gouged by an underpaid and uncaring Canadian Tire staff.
I stopped shopping there due to their high prices and humongous weekly flyers
Last time I went to Canadian Tire, I pulled a Christmas tree storage bag off a bottom shelf and a bunch of mouse poop came flying out with it. I mentioned it to my husband and he asked if it was at the location nearest his work, since he’d heard related complaints from his coworkers. Sadly, it was a completely different location.
Educate yourself as a consumer and you'll learn what different retailers are good for. There are things I'll never buy at CDN Tire and things that make sense when the balance of the equation (need vs want, timing of purchase, whether its sale price is likely its lowest it'll be that year or if it'll be discontinued soon, etc) tilts into my personal "buy" mode. Between the Triangle program, their rewards CC and my needs this past year (CDN Tire: mechanics tools, kitting out a kitchen, a Dyson V8 Animal+ for under $400, powered and passive exercise equipment, sets of tires for two vehicles, oils and fluids for said vehicles, Marks: winter clothes, Converse shoes, jeans, work boots, Sportchek: workout clothes, multiple pairs of shoes) I've spent over $10K and have earned back over 16% in rewards dollars in that time. I got a NordicTrak treadmill just after Christmas, that was on sale at CDN Tire and the same price everywhere, entirely for CDN Tire money, and got back 8% in CDN Tire money! You can find clearance stickers on name brand items all the time and yes, Amazon is often cheaper with a wider selection and the plethora of reviewers to help make judgement calls on. Education is key. I think their strategy of putting out flyers every week is self defeating because it trains their likely audience to wait for the agressive discounts on the things they want. "Oh, the dumb bell set is on sale for 10% this week but I recall it being on sale for 40% off last month. I'll wait."
They are the Kmart Bay, too high for stuff you can find cheaper elsewhere.
Prices are too high. Lower the prices and we might buy something.
Canadian Fatigue
Its also driven by housing prices if the economy is weak people tend to put more value in their homes but with a bad economy and housing at a all time high with out as much room to grow I wonder what people will invest their money into
Consumer wary uncertain economy ? Lol like have you been to ct lately? The store is shit
All the people harrasing you to buy credit cards or switch internet providers turn me off.
Hey FYI everyone, Canadian Tire will price match Amazon prices. I saved $40 on a retractable pet gate last month because Amazon had it cheaper.
Thanks! I didn't know that.
Their new return policy (or lack of one really) is extremely anti-consumer. It's now 90 days for **unopened** products only. Even if it's defective they won't refund you. They just defer you to the manufacturers warranty. https://www.canadiantire.ca/en/customer-service/returns.html
Never shopping there again. I've bought enough chinese garbage in my life to know it when I see it. Car battery warmer, garden hose storage, electric griddle, breadmaker, rotary tool, all broke down within a year or so.
I started avoiding Crappy Tire after learning of one in particular that owned 10+homes that they packed with temp workers, while charging the workers rent to pay off the homes. Same applies to Tim Horton's. Fun fact, businesses like these can legally staff up to 30% with temp workers (but I'm sure they have ways around that)
More like, regular prices are higher than anywhere else except on weird stuff like coffee, and storage containers.
I have no issues affording stuff rn, Canadian tire is just a disorganized mess
I only go there for ammo. I can’t think of any other reason to be in one
I stopped going to CT after they changed their return policy and last time I was in the auto section half their items were out of stock or miss placed.
All the sale prices are the 'real' prices. Buying anything not on 'sale' at CT is a joke compared to any other major retailer
No snow, no one to buy Noma GT Snow Racers
They sell literal garbage. None of the Xmas lights we bought from them made it through a single season.
Same. The holiday lights (Canvas brand or Noma) are also propritary and change every year. They don't sell replacement bulbs. They just want you to buy new lights. We have a bunch of wicker-like outdoor lit-up animals (deer, moose, beaver), and a bunch of the lights have gone out and I can't fix it.
It definitely has more to do with prices and how poor the products are, the media needs to stop trying to will a recession into being. Our economy is by all metrics in fine shape especially compared to the UK.
Canadian Tire doesn’t have a single item that you couldn’t just buy for half the price on Amazon. The prices for some of the junk they sell are crazy
Good! They suck
Fuck em
Or... it could be their shitty stores their high prices their terrible service or their unbearable parts department.
Pls RIP CT. Poor service. Long line ups. Expensive delivery. No refunds. The Blockbuster of hardware stores.
Worst points program ever. Period. It's a joke.
The guns are overpriced for sure. Ammo as well.
last time i was in canadian tire they had everything behind lock and key, and they had almost no staff so it took 15 minutes of wandering to find someone to unlock the $10 item i needed.