Le Baron Bankrupt ???

K-Roc said:
It is like going in a time machine visiting their store... catalogue ordering, no bar code scanner at the cash (its all price tags), their online ordering system is literally from 1997, closed on Sunday
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This; I agree. They were still pushing catalogue order....in 2016. Even Sears figured out that was dead years ago.
Ten years ago it was a good store to visit, but they never updated since and it was depressing to visit in the past few years.

Give your business to smart merchants in the GTA like Al Flahertys or even Sail in the suburbs. LeBaron's caused their own downfall.
 
Lousy website which they stubbornly refused to upgrade.
Crappy attitude from sales staff.
Lots of competition.
Location, location, location ... not so great.
Their own arrogance, stubbornness and refusal to adapt caused their failure.
Joins SIR in the corporate graveyard as one of the stores I grew up with.
They brought it on themselves but I still hate to see them go.
 
Was in their Markham store today. Kinda surprised that ammo was only 10% off. Camping and outdoors supplies were only 20% off. Grr But some stuff, that I never saw,was apparently 50% off.
Talked to an employee who agreed that their ancient website prob had much to do with their downward spiral, but the owners didnt want to spend the money for a modern site. oh well.

Honestly,,,,in this day and age, how can a business with so much expensive inventory and floor space only rely on local buyers? Versus a decent website where the whole of Canada would be customers.
 
Something just occured to me:

When they shut down, what happens to all the ammo log books?

Are they destroyed? Handed over to the CFO?

What about the records the company kept of gun purchases?
 
soulchaser said:
Something just occured to me:

When they shut down, what happens to all the ammo log books?

Are they destroyed? Handed over to the CFO?

What about the records the company kept of gun purchases?
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Hopefully, it all goes to the same storage site as all their payroll, tax, and other info.
 
soulchaser said:
When they shut down, what happens to all the ammo log books?
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Funny enough, they didn't even bother to record me in the ammo log when I went to the closing sale. The ammo logs themselves wouldn't go to the CFO, as it is a provincial requirement and not part of the federal firearms program -- and I assume there is already a regular transfer of these logs in place.
 
Exlibris said:
Funny enough, they didn't even bother to record me in the ammo log when I went to the closing sale. The ammo logs themselves wouldn't go to the CFO, as it is a provincial requirement and not part of the federal firearms program -- and I assume there is already a regular transfer of these logs in place.
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Well.....

The CFO's put in a lot of regulations that aren't part of the federal firearms program.

I don't know if they are regularily transferred to the CFO or if the retailer keeps them in store in case the CFO or his reps come in and want to have a look at them.
 
soulchaser said:
Well.....

The CFO's put in a lot of regulations that aren't part of the federal firearms program.
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True, but this one comes from Ontario proper, Ammunition Regulation Act, 1994, S.O. 1994, c. 20.

Edit: upon further reading, it seems that the Ontario statute enables the CFO to review the records upon request, but does not require them to be transferred to any body nor does it specify for how long they need to be kept. As an archivist/records manager I can tell you this is really sloppy record keeping legislation.
 
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Exlibris said:
Funny enough, they didn't even bother to record me in the ammo log when I went to the closing sale. The ammo logs themselves wouldn't go to the CFO, as it is a provincial requirement and not part of the federal firearms program -- and I assume there is already a regular transfer of these logs in place.
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Markham store still logging ammo purchases.

Wasn't goint to bother, but the had CCI Velocitor in stock, so I grabbed a couple hundred.

Funny thing though, from what I could see, most of the ammo had the price tags pulled off the boxes.
 
This is a very good example what happen when a business never listen their customers. Or want to keep their personality. Plus some never want to up-to-date employee..
The final destination is "goodbye".
 
I received their e-mail newsletter today. It's official they are closing with new store hours and 10% - 50% off their entire inventory. Looks like all locations. All sales final. In store - shopping only.
 
As mentioned before it's only 7% off a majority of the store and you're still paying 3% on top of regular pricing for ammo. Wait it out until it's more like 40%-50% off everything in the store. That probably won't happen until early November, but as witnessed, I guess 7% off is enough to trigger the bargoon hoarde... lol
 
Crap. I work up the street and I get my flats of 12 there.....oh well.

Sail is a nice store, but I've had better luck with flats at Lebarons. I asked once at Sail for flats, and the guy I asked acted like I was bothering him, and could have cared less. Nice attitude, bud. Never been back.
 
I have shopped at the Ottawa store for years and it will be sad to see the store close as I have got to know most of the staff and think they are great people. If the owner actually got stock for these stores then they would not be in this situation, time and time again I would go in to buy something and they would have no stock. I ordered a rifle barrel for a 870 and received a call 13 months later to tell me my barrel was in LMAO are you u kidding??? I truly feel bad for the staff.
 
mike t said:
I have shopped at the Ottawa store for years and it will be sad to see the store close as I have got to know most of the staff and think they are great people. If the owner actually got stock for these stores then they would not be in this situation, time and time again I would go in to buy something and they would have no stock. I ordered a rifle barrel for a 870 and received a call 13 months later to tell me my barrel was in LMAO are you u kidding??? I truly feel bad for the staff.
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Obviously there were problems and issues. Things could have been done better, etc. However the staff were good people and the store was run in an honest, decent way. It is way to easy to fail in brick-and-mortar retail these days. I regret the demise of Lebarons. They will be missed.
 
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