Our New Location is Almost Ready to Open - Just Waiting on Ford

Vewdu said:
You're kidding, right? I don't know if you guys have read the news lately, but there's this ####ty thing called COVID-19 that is currently a global pandemic. The reason why places like Costco and Walmart, amongst other businesses are allowed to keep their doors open is because they sell everyday necessities (You know, food, clothing, sanitation materials). I get that it sucks that mother nature had other plans during the period of time you were supposed to open up a new shop, but advocating that non-essential businesses be allowed to have people browsing, touching and in general being within close proximity of others, is stupid. Absolute bold faced greed and ignorance. Almost everyone is hurting during this, but try being part of the solution instead of the problem by actually using your influence for good instead of feeding into the fire of idiocy. You might as well be standing in Queen's Park with the rest of the goofs in Toronto.

Seriously disappointed in you guys for even thinking this is a smart think to ask.
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I get what you are saying but can you explain why booze or weed or DQ Blizzards are more essential than the stuff Select Shooting Supplies sells? Hell weed wasn’t even a legal business a year ago and now it’s deemed essential? I guess if the government sold gun parts THEN they would be considered essential and you’d be ok with that.

Take a trip to Costco or Walmart or any of the other places you mention that is allowed to keep their doors open and have a good hard look at what people are buying. Then come back here and tell us about how all that was being purchased was everyday necessities. :rolleyes:

And you did read the part where they said they are not asking for the floodgates to be opened and that they are willing to go above and beyond what the currently open stores are doing to keep people safe right? Does that really sound like “bold faced greed and ignorance” to you?
 
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bc308 said:
I am not sure if this thread is so irredeemably off track that any middle ground is left.
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Select Shooting: Hey guys, we put a lot of hard work into opening, sure would be good if we could and are hoping to get the community meaningfully involved.
CGN: Not on my watch.

Seriously though, as YoungestPiperCub said
YoungestPiperCub said:
Way to go guys. Hopefully not much longer.
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I think its just important to not jump the gun and keep public safety top of mind. And when it is reasonable, that they stick to their plan to do the best they can to make it a safe experience for those that do go. And much like people dying, others are hurting too with job losses and money not coming in its hard. But some people in this thread's answer to Šhit all over everyone else when the going gets tough is incorrect.

Too long, didn't read (TL;DR):
Open when you can, don't push it to be sooner than you need it to be, as sad as it is, gun stores and ranges are not food and medicine. Everyone get out and support your businesses that matter to you when and how its SAFE to do so and grandpa doesn't have to die because you wanted a snapcap or a new Adam Sandler DVD from bestbuy.
 
It amazes me how many Karen's are on this forum. If you're scared of the COVID bogeyman stay home. You dont get to dictate what others do, thats not how a democracy works. As the poster above stated, essential business seems to be a very broad term lately so who are you to chastise a business for wanting to open. You guys are the type of people to snitch on your neighbours for taking their dog out to #### arent you....
 
Runningfool said:
I get what you are saying but can you explain why booze or weed or DQ Blizzards are more essential than the stuff Select Shooting Supplies sells?.
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I agree, why some poor sod has to work at DQ right now for $10.75/hr is beyond me. Fast food != essential. Let them collect Coronabuck$, or better yet, let the fat-cat board of directors take paycuts to keep them on the payroll and send them home!
 
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trimeal1 said:
I agree, why some poor sod has to work at DQ right now for $10.75/hr is beyond me. Fast food =! essential. Let them collect Coronabuck$, or better yet, let the fat-cat board of directors take paycuts to keep them on the payroll and send them home!
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It has nothing to do with how much someone is paid and everything to do with how the government has decided what is essential and what isn’t! Maybe they should temporarily change their name to Select Shooting Supplies & Sandwiches! Hahaha. Dean has probably already thought of that ;)
 
KALIKO JAKK said:
If you're scared of the COVID bogeyman stay home. You dont get to dictate what others do, thats not how a democracy works.
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lol ... umm back to junior highschool. That is how democracy works. The majority picks for everyone. But it seems more like your issue is with free speech.

You seem like the kind of person that has more pride than brains. You would rather die than change an opinion you have pouted about.

Runningfool said:
It has nothing to do with how much someone is paid and everything to do with how the government has decided what is essential and what isn’t! Maybe they should temporarily change their name to Select Shooting Supplies & Sandwiches! Hahaha. Dean has probably already thought of that ;)
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lol I should have been more clear. I agree that it has nothing to do with how much money they make. Rather I was trying to illustrate how the pay is not worth the risk. But yeah, non essential for sure. I would argue that weed and booze 100% aren't essential either but a bet more than a few people would get mad at me for that too.
 
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Vewdu said:
You're kidding, right? I don't know if you guys have read the news lately, but there's this ####ty thing called COVID-19 that is currently a global pandemic. The reason why places like Costco and Walmart, amongst other businesses are allowed to keep their doors open is because they sell everyday necessities (You know, food, clothing, sanitation materials). I get that it sucks that mother nature had other plans during the period of time you were supposed to open up a new shop, but advocating that non-essential businesses be allowed to have people browsing, touching and in general being within close proximity of others, is stupid. Absolute bold faced greed and ignorance. Almost everyone is hurting during this, but try being part of the solution instead of the problem by actually using your influence for good instead of feeding into the fire of idiocy. You might as well be standing in Queen's Park with the rest of the goofs in Toronto.

Seriously disappointed in you guys for even thinking this is a smart think to ask.
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Jeez, I hope I never come across someone like you. Loosen up a bit - aka its time to take the gun out of your you know what.
 
Congrats - the store looks great. I’ll drop by when you open and buy some stuff.

For the others - we can’t stay closed until the world gets a vaccine. We just can’t. That will be a year from now or more.

We need to reopen carefully and follow all best practices. Store owners are looking to follow all guidelines.

Small businesses are our friends and neighbors. They’re doing their best.

Great job on the store. Hang in there.
 
Hunting and firearms stores are considered an essential service in several parts of BC. It is required for sustenance hunting, this includes indigenous people and white Anglo-Saxon Canadians.

It would appear that some Chiefs of Police and some Provincial Premiers have their own ideas on interpretation of the law, or their own personal believes on who should be allowed to keep their doors open for business or not.

It would appear Ontario has become a Police State, the city of Calgary is not far behind this. I saw a video of a huge bully Calgary City Cop shove a fellow for feeding the homeless while directly violated his own personal social distancing.

Canada is out of control, we have a corrupt female Doctor leading this pack of lies and a fool for a PM.

The Ontario Liberal voters better wake up, before #### hits the fan.
 
KALIKO JAKK said:
It amazes me how many Karen's are on this forum. If you're scared of the COVID bogeyman stay home. You dont get to dictate what others do, thats not how a democracy works. As the poster above stated, essential business seems to be a very broad term lately so who are you to chastise a business for wanting to open. You guys are the type of people to snitch on your neighbours for taking their dog out to #### arent you....
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For the win!!!
 
The original tread was more about information to let us know what SSS have going on. I think we all know how critical the current situation is and we are all eager to bring down the infection and for the lockdown to slowly get lifted.

Stay Safe guys
 
Vewdu said:
You're kidding, right? I don't know if you guys have read the news lately, but there's this ####ty thing called COVID-19 that is currently a global pandemic. The reason why places like Costco and Walmart, amongst other businesses are allowed to keep their doors open is because they sell everyday necessities (You know, food, clothing, sanitation materials). I get that it sucks that mother nature had other plans during the period of time you were supposed to open up a new shop, but advocating that non-essential businesses be allowed to have people browsing, touching and in general being within close proximity of others, is stupid. Absolute bold faced greed and ignorance. Almost everyone is hurting during this, but try being part of the solution instead of the problem by actually using your influence for good instead of feeding into the fire of idiocy. You might as well be standing in Queen's Park with the rest of the goofs in Toronto.

Seriously disappointed in you guys for even thinking this is a smart think to ask.
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Doesn’t the title say waiting on ford?? Omg, heaven forbid they promote a store they put a lot of hard work in to. We should hang out sometime, you must be a blast at parties lol
 
Just for clarity, and we'll leave the offside comments and the back and forth for all to see so they can make their own judgement...but ya'll really do need to learn to be better to one another.

In no way, as stated, are we asking to #endtheshutdown. Those involved in that movement have no plans to re-open the economy beyond allowing all doors to fly open and get back to life as usual.

For some background, my wife is an ICU RN and has been on the front lines of this pandemic since March. For a month, we lived separate in our home as she gauged the competency and safety practices of her co-workers. She worked through SARS as well, at the epicentre in Toronto when we lived there. She knows the drill. We're back to living in our home somewhat normally - still taking great caution when she returns from a shift.

We're good friends with the head of infection control at one of our local hospitals, which are doing a fantastic job even when cases are discovered at targeting and carrying out protocols to avoid a spread.

Costco, Wal-Mart, the LCBO, grocery stores, Shoppers Drug Mart and others were mentioned because these were all places I've been the past few weeks. I found their safety measures to be lacking, at best. I felt far more likely to catch the virus there than anywhere else. Yet, these are businesses who should be the best examples of safety practices. At Select Shooting Supplies, we're always asking ourselves 'how can we be better?'. Our new location is an example of this. Sure, the timing isn't perfect and the ranges will be delayed from the anticipated time of completion this Summer - but we wanted to be better, so we moved - and the moving date happened to land right when businesses were closed across Ontario. When I saw the chaos in the 'essential' businesses (all aisles open isn't 'essential') I asked the same question...if we could be open, how could we do it better?

So Dean and I have been devising a plan for when we're able to open the doors - because Covid-19 isn't going away anytime soon and 'normal' has changed. This includes social distancing within our location, decals on the floor and signage at eye level, limiting the number of individuals based on square footage - and then reducing that number, meeting people at the door and scanning temperature as well as asking a few questions, providing hand sanitation for entry and exit and PPE for our employees. These are all things my friend the head of infection control agrees with and says it would make our location even more safe than the aforementioned essential businesses - where he believes most people are catching the virus.

Closures in Ontario aren't just lasting a couple more weeks. I have it on good authority from some of my former political co-workers that the timeline is months. Everyone has to start thinking about what that means not only for their favourite small businesses - but for the economy in general.

When the nurses and doctors at my wife's workplace say that it's time for a controlled opening of the economy with required precautionary measures needed to be met and practiced and enforced in place, then the government should start to listen. The healthcare system is keeping up. It's way under capacity. Every healthcare worker will tell you that there's little chance of a vaccine coming and we're in this for the long haul - so it's time to look at what 'normal' looks like on the business side going forward.

It's tense times. We get it. We're still going to approach everything we do thinking about how we can do it better. With the planning we have done and everything in place ready to go, we'll be fast out of the gate for whatever the new 'normal' is for the next while.

Be good to one another and stay safe.
 
Life must go on I hope Liberal-Lite Ford gets his crap together and ends this. I am very disappointed in him through all this. Hope you guys get rolling soon. Those who enjoy there new right-less socialist society can self quarantine after this is over. Enough is enough, 2500 have died, 75% in nursing homes. Quarantine the sick the rest of us can go work and shoot to pay for all this BS.

Can't believe how many people are rooting for this lockdown crap, you call yourselves Conservative?
 
Trimeal1

So if the majority decide a "vaccine" should be madatory you're fine with them coming to your house and injecting you with some crap thats bypassed 99% of human testing right...? I mean what could go wrong right...?

You seem like the type of person that thinks the government has your best interests at heart...you also seem like the type of person to pin a gold star on your chest and rat on people who have a different opinion than yours with regards to what goes in their own body...
 
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