The big box, the flagship, and beyond: Impacts and trends in the Greater Toronto Area

Canadian Geographer

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 494-512

  Jones, Kenneth G ^a   Doucet, Michael J ^b  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Big box retailing; GTA; Structural impacts

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND USE PLANNING; RETAILING;

CANADA; ONTARIO; TORONTO;

EID: 0035573421     PISSN: 00083658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0064.2001.tb01498.x     Document Type: Article

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3. Famous built it big and they came
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6. Wal-Mart leaded US assault: Firms poised to invade Canadian market
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11. Store wars of the category-killer kind: Big U.S. retailers are stepping up their Canadian invasion
12. Hammers are in, hooves out: Home depot opens megastore on stockyard site
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15. Malls hitting wall: Study: Growth found in big boxes and category killers
16. Retail's new channel: Suburban clusters of no-frills retailers are drawing a growing number of value-conscious consumers
17. Chapters anchors downtown centre
18. Dominion unveils the small box
19. Loblaw eating up rivals with big, one-stop outlets: Chain's Forest Hill supermarket latest in upscale emporiums
20. Supermarket food war looms: Big stores reinvent grocery game in fight for market share
21. Megachains and the Canadian retail environment
22. Canadian shopping malls must evolve or die
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24. The little bookstore that couldn't . . . survive near Indigo: Bookstore fixtures for sale as Writers and Co. goes under
25. Bargain hunters' paradise: Customers flock to huge warehouse stores in the suburbs
26. Toronto's big-box assault loses steam
27. Long live the kings
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29. Mountain equipment blazes new trail
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33. OMB rejects home depot on waterfront
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37. Canadian tire hires American boss: Thinking big may be key talent
38. U.S. stores scout land before northern invasion
39. Another big chain targets Canada: Upscale U.S. discount retailer [Target Stores] looking at expansion
40. Grand and toy quits superstores
41. No Wal-Mart supercenters here: U.S. retailer says grocery market in canada is already crowded
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58. Big-box trend seen continuing for 2000: Market survey predicts more new theme retailers from U.S., further expansion of the "downtown fringe"
59. Canadian retail parallels U.S. scene: Retailers glimpse future by looking South of the border
60. Wal-Mart to try small-marts: Retailer acknowledges bigger not always better for shoppers
61. Grocers watch warily while giant Wal-Mart grows in food: But Canadian chain [Loblaw] downplays big moves here
62. Lichtman's wrestles with new retail rivals: Toronto mini-chain plans to close one outlet and move another as superstores crowd its turf
63. Demise of shopping centre greatly overstated, Sears president says
64. Wal-Mart claims another victim: Few surprised to see K Mart fall after U.S. discounter throws Canadian retailers a curve
65. Home centre sells everything and the kitchen sink!
66. Here's to you, Sherry Robinson
67. Festival hall construction gets under way
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72. Loblaw unfazed by Wal-Mart
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74. Birks adds polish to its luxury image: Jeweller pares down image to attract wealthier clientele
75. Bay buys seven Eaton's stores: Analyst says purchases improve Bay's market stance
76. Sports authority closing its five Canadian stores: Biggest in U.S., retailer's outlets in Canada a flop
77. Wal-Mart tests its small-town formula
78. Lichtman's declares bankruptcy: Largest independent bookseller loses war with superstores
79. Colour Eaton's eggplant b sorry, aubergine
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83. The multivariate functional structure of the British retailing system
84. Asian theme malls in suburban Toronto: Land use conflict in Richmond Hill
85. A shift from "me" to "we" spending: Toronto is being overrun by more and more stores that cater to people with a lot of money to spend on their homes
86. City retail structure
87. Winning the big-box battle: Guelph's literal and spiritual centre is an independent bookstore called the book shelf
88. St. Lawrence retailers hang on: Big retailers circling
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97. Children's bookstore: The final chapter
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106. Kaos in a safe, orderly environment: People used to go downtown for excitement, now it is programmed at the mall
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108. Main street hangs tough with goliath: Study finds small firms coping despite big boxes
109. A deep impression on the retail landscape: Five years later Wal-Mart knows Canadian ways
110. New chapter in book store wars: Lichtman's forced to close bayview village location after rival chapters signs a lease
111. Eaton Centre Ikea seen as a possibility: Major retailers wooed to fill in for dying chain
112. Eaton's main floor set to reopen: Cosmetics, footwear return early next week
113. Plan to carve up Eaton's okayed: Sears comes out the winner with stores, shares
114. Canadian tire corp. Profit run punctured: 1999 earnings fall 14% on Y2K, web-site costs
115. Study rethinks retailing in the GTA: Shopping malls seen losing sales to e-commerce
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123. Big box culture
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125. Larry Stevenson: As the CEO of Chapters, this Forest Hill resident may well be the most powerful person in Canadian publishing
126. New development patterns of Chinese commercial activity in the Toronto CMA
127. Getting out: A fresh, high-tech style of popular entertainment is unfolding across urban Canada
128. Entertainment blockbusters: The urban entertainment centre boom building up across Canada will go into overdrive
129. Mega-bookstores, megabucks
130. Invasion of the shop snatchers: Retailers are preparing for tough competition as Wal-Mart sets out to win Canadian consumers
131. Retail restructuring and retail analysis
132. The GTA Y2K: The dynamics of change in the commercial structure of the greater Toronto area
133. Hammerson to expand Mississauga shopping centre: Will add an entertainment and leisure component to square one