Bass Pro Shops in Alberta

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Driving home from Calgary yesterday I drove down the service road by the big mall they are building in Balzac just south of Airdrie. Sure enough there is a small sign with the Bass Pro logo on it directing workers to the jobsite. The building is framed in and the frame looks exactly like that of other Bass Pro stores. No official word on the Bass Pro website yet but the building is undeniably a BPS. It's going to be huge!!!!
 
I remember the excitment when Bass Pro was coming to Ontario. Everyone thought it spelled the end of Le Barons and that this new player would cause prices to drop, put small shops out of business and would be the hunting and shooting nirvana Canada always deserved to have.

Today Le Barons is still going strong. The small shops are still open. Prices haven't dropped and nirvana still eludes us.

Bass Pro is a good place to buy camo. Lots of selection in all sizes. The only other redeeming feature about the Ontario outlet is that it is half-way between my home and Epps and if I need to take a whiz they have much nicer washrooms than most service centres.
 
Whatever. I don't want to see the little guy go under, but I just can't afford to support the little guy exclusivly when my dollar doesn't go that far. We make trips to Calgary far too often, and I often find myself searching for one product or another at the two major players, If one doesn't have, the other may. Now the odds will be in my favour even more and the chances of one of the three having what I need are increased.
 
Glad to hear it! Maybe a certian store In Calgary might step up their customer service a little knowing that they will finally have some competition in the area.
 
Claybuster said:
I remember the excitment when Bass Pro was coming to Ontario. Everyone thought it spelled the end of Le Barons and that this new player would cause prices to drop, put small shops out of business and would be the hunting and shooting nirvana Canada always deserved to have.

Today Le Barons is still going strong. The small shops are still open. Prices haven't dropped and nirvana still eludes us.

Bass Pro is a good place to buy camo. Lots of selection in all sizes. The only other redeeming feature about the Ontario outlet is that it is half-way between my home and Epps and if I need to take a whiz they have much nicer washrooms than most service centres.
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Of course if they had mail order it might be a different story. (handguns would be nice too)
 
I think when cabelas/sir becomes a full fledge cabelas and starts doing mailorder from Winnipeg, we will see a few shops get hit hard, not so much the small shops but the WSS and Lebarons etc.
 
bill c68 said:
I think when cabelas/sir becomes a full fledge cabelas and starts doing mailorder from Winnipeg, we will see a few shops get hit hard, not so much the small shops but the WSS and Lebarons etc.
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Pfft. WSS has already lost almost $10000 of my business. I'd buy from anyone rather than them now -- even if it cost me a few bucks more. BPS will have ample opportunity to piss me off.
 
Bass Pro Shop in Toronto is a total bust for shooters/reloaders...i went there once for a set of dies, I couldn't find them, so i asked for help. The guy showed me all the dies they had, 7sets, all in the same caliber!! If the new one in Alberta isn't better it will die quickly, WSS has nothing to worry about.
 
I've only ever been to the one in Nashville, and I couldn't find anything to buy, but I always welcome more players to the market. It can only help guys like us.
 
AB.boy said:
Glad to hear it! Maybe a certian store In Calgary might step up their customer service a little knowing that they will finally have some competition in the area.
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I have always had good service, not great, at WSS. At BPS in ON, I have had nothing but terrible service and their prices were always higher than WSS or LeBarons.

If the customer service at the ON BPS is indicative of their quality or lack thereof, than WSS will have nothing to worry about.
 
Service?

gitrdun said:
No, nothing can be worse than that. Welcome to Calgary BPS. :)
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I have been to the new Cabelas in Utah, I've been to the Bass Pro shop in Orlando. I just don't get why all you shoppers out there think that these stores are so great. Their service isn't any better in the USA, all the staff are minimum waged kids that know little or nothing about the products they are showing you.
How many more dark green useless for Alberta camo patterns would you like to see.
The work force that they will hire to run the new store, where do you think they are going to come from? sure there will be some upper management from the USA, but the bulk of the staff are going to be local folks that know little relative to avid outdoors people.
I will stop in and have a look, but realistically how much better will it be than what we already have?
FS
 
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