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New KMS Tools location opening this fall in Saskatoon

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Elektrishun

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Good news is the store opening in Saskatoon.

Bad news is the location - 105 Avenue F South.

Whomever scouted this location must not be familiar with the area. I am assuming the previous tenant, Giant Tiger, didn't close up shop because of poor sales.
 
The last time i was in that Giant Tiger, i got out as several police cruisers rolled in for a disturbance.🙄 I rarely go downtown anymore unless it's for eye specialist in the midtown center.
 
6.5 Fan said:
The last time i was in that Giant Tiger, i got out as several police cruisers rolled in for a disturbance.🙄 I rarely go downtown anymore unless it's for eye specialist in the midtown center.
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Pretty much the same except I go to the tower for dental appointments.

Just read a story about a local citizen who is fed-up with watching people walk out of grocery stores loaded up with stolen items and nobody tries to stop them. Can happen anywhere but where KMS plans on setting-up shop is pretty much begging for a daily dose of that kind of trouble and more.

The north end business area would have been the obvious choice. On the surface it makes no sense. Maybe they are getting a sweetheart deal on the lease?
 
Susquatch said:
Might also be counter sales only.
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I was thinking the same. On their website they are hiring for all positions including sales associates and sales desk. I assume associates work the floor where items are on display but not necessarily.

I would like to see KMS succeed so hopefully they will have a plan for dealing with the troublemakers.
 
Elektrishun said:
I was thinking the same. On their website they are hiring for all positions including sales associates and sales desk. I assume associates work the floor where items are on display but not necessarily.

I would like to see KMS succeed so hopefully they will have a plan for dealing with the troublemakers.
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SOWA is 95% counter order. Most display items are behind glass. Spaenour is similar. Yes still retail sales but you aren't browsing aisles of "pick your own"
 
Stopped in at one of the KMS Tools in Edmonton. While browsing a staff member asked if I needed a hand. I said I was from Saskatoon and it was my first time in a KMS so I was touring around to see what they had. The staff person asked if I knew that a store was opening in Saskatoon. I said that I did but was surprised by the location. They said that KMS has no corporate sponsors and it costs a lot of money to set-up a store. Once they are established it is estimated to take about 10 months to start to break even. After that they can consider moving to a better location. This sounds like a common practice of KMS. The store I was in was preparing to move for the 4th time. Apparently their first location in Prince George was a really rough neighborhood so the Saskatoon location is nothing new to them.
 
6.5 Fan said:
The last time i was in that Giant Tiger, i got out as several police cruisers rolled in for a disturbance.🙄 I rarely go downtown anymore unless it's for eye specialist in the midtown center.
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I know a guy that owned a Giant tiger locally. He lost 80k a year in theft. Giant tiger corporate doesn’t want owners to prosecute theft as it looks bad. He sold it. This is the reward of business ownership in canada
 
Chicken lights said:
SOWA is 95% counter order. Most display items are behind glass. Spaenour is similar. Yes still retail sales but you aren't browsing aisles of "pick your own"
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The KMS in Edmonton will likely be the same in Saskatoon - all merch ready accessible for the customer. Some items have a security device where a staff member would be required to remove the "lock" before you can take it off the hook. Before I left they had a "Wall of Shame" posted by the door displaying the security cam stills of past shoplifters.
 
Side story but possibly related to shoplifting...

While at the KMS in Edmonton I bought a couple packs of "ignition wrenches". One metric and one SAE. I thought these little wrenches would come in handy. 10 wrenches per and packaged loosely in a clear plastic envelope with a single snap to keep it closed.

The way my brain works - as soon as I got to the car I gave my wife a pack to open and count while I counted the other. The metric pack had ten and the SAE had 9.🙄 The 3/8" wrench was missing. Wish I had done it at the check-out counter but there were other customers. No problem to return it but no other packages in the store to replace it.

Now, was the missing wrench never packaged from day one?

Was it removed after being purchased and returned assuming nobody at the store would check - how incredibly cheap would you have to be?

Or did somebody open the package, remove the one wrench they needed, and hang it back on the hook?

I am certain a full investigation has been launched by store security for the $0.10 wrench.
 
The extent of shoplifting has no boundries....my wife managed a green house storefront in Edmonton a few years ago, caught one lady that had a BMW parked in the parking lot, She was ripping the tops off seed packets in the store & pouring a few from each into a side pocket on her purse.
 
I watched some high school kids walk into a dollar store, grab some drinks and chocolate bars/chips and just walk right out the front door once while I was in line to pay. When I yelled at them to pay for that, and to not be thieving shitbags, one turned around and told me to fuck off and mind my own business. Store clerks did nothing, and the kids chirped at me all the way to my car. Real bright future ahead of you tough guys. I'm 100% sure not one of those weasels knows the feeling of being hit square in the nose. Pretty smart criminals to steal from a store then hang around out front causing a scene too. Store clerk said thanks, but that happens every day, as the highschool is right behind the store. Our judicial systems is beyond broken, but that's the end result. Fixing that problem starts in the home, with society itself refusing to accept it....I'll cut myself short here....
 
I've been shopping KMS since they were a single store front in a strip mail in Malliardville Coquitlam, a couple years after they first opened.The main store is in the old Greyhound depot across from Ikea. When it was just a couple of stories, they got some smoking deals as they would buy tools at scrape iron prices. Now the few clearance items get scattered across the chain.
 
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