Dollar Stores Gaining Share Of Wallet From Traditional Retailers
Sunday, November 4th, 2012Tweet Consumers shop at different types of stores to fulfill different needs. Mass merchandisers like Canadian Tire provide a place where shoppers can find most of their needs under one roof. Discount mass merchandisers like Wal-Mart provide the right products in a one-stop shop at the lowest prices. Target and Costco also fall into this [...]
SINS Canadian Retail Index – Week Ending July 1, 2011
Saturday, July 2nd, 2011Tweet At the end of Q2 the fates of the Canadian Retail Stocks that make up the SINS Index have met a range of fates so far in 2011. Our best performing stocks YTD are: Forzani Group (+44.3%), which was taken over by Canadian Tire in Q2; Jean Coutu (+14.3%) and Dollarama (+13.5%). The stocks [...]
Updates: SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review
Friday, May 20th, 2011Tweet We are pleased to announce that updates are now available for 16 Canadian Retailers in our SINS Canadian Retailer Year In Review. In this popular report we feature 23 of the largest publically traded retailers in Canada in concise one-page snapshots which highlight the key achievements over the past year and a glimpse at [...]
SINS Market Visit Report – Dollar Tree – Phoenix, AZ
Saturday, May 14th, 2011Tweet The goal of this report to is share with the Canadian CPG / Retail industry our observations from our store visit to Dollar Tree stores in the United States. This new competitor in the Canadian marketplace purchased Dollar Giant stores in Canada last October in order to gain a foothold in this market. Dollar [...]
Dollar Store Battle in Canada Heats Up
Sunday, October 17th, 2010Tweet You may have missed the story this week (maybe because the deal was announced on Thanksgiving Monday), but the dollar store market in Canada is set to get another boost through increased competition for channel leader Dollarama. The new competition comes from south of the border, with US operator Dollar Tree purchasing the Vancouver-based, [...]
The Genius of Dollarama
Monday, February 1st, 2010Tweet There is a great article in February’s Canadian Business on the success of Dollarama – one of Canada’s fastest growing retailers. Read the article at the link below: http://ow.ly/Z3cT I have written about Dollarama in the past and it seems like the folks at Canadian Business agree that this is the perfect environment for [...]
Five Reasons to Love (or Hate) Dollar Stores
Monday, February 1st, 2010Tweet Originally Posted in November 2009 I have written here before about the Dollar Store channel and what I think is a channel poised for considerable growth in the coming years. This has been reinforced by the recent IPOs from Canada’s Dollarama and Dollar General in the US. This G&M article below makes me think [...]
Revenge of the Discounters / Dollar Stores
Monday, February 1st, 2010Tweet Originally Posted in September 2009 I wanted to pass along a very interesting G&M article regarding the next steps for discounter retailers such as Dollarama, Bargain Shop and Giant Tiger. You can find it at the link below: http://tinyurl.com/pkqnfa It got me thinking how in previous lives we used to treat these retailers with [...]
