Correction. What gives them good business, AND strengthens our economy (I'm sure businesses would love to have no taxes)
BassPro Canada no longer selling gun powder
- Thread starter ericrose
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Correction. What gives them good business, AND strengthens our economy (I'm sure businesses would love to have no taxes)
It would be nice for some retailer to step up to the plate and get it directly from Manitoba where most of it is made as far as bass pro Yankee go home and never come back .they are just a wallmart came here screwed the local guys and now arnt going to service the client .get lost
Bass Pro (Vaughan,ONT) is good if you want to:
-Over-pay by %20
-Have a peaceful stroll through the mostly empty shelves in the reloading component aisle
-stare at the back wall of their empty gun powder shelves (so who cares if they don't sell it anymore.. they barely ever did
)
-wait in line at a 40 foot long gun counter staffed by 1-2 persons in the middle of a work day
-deal with people who have zero knowledge of the dept they work in - at least %50 of the time
-get 'perp walked' with your gun/ammo from the gun counter halfway across the store to the enormous line at the main cash... AGAIN staffed by two people at high noon WHY WHY WHY can we not just pay at the damn gun counter after we already have our wallet out and our (R)PAL out (even to by airgun pellets??)
If BASS PRO spent the $$$ they spent on the cheezy store motif (huge fishtank?? c'mon) and spent it on good staff and inventory.. and then actually had their prices lowered by %10-20 on many items,.. well then we would be getting somewhere..
-Over-pay by %20
-Have a peaceful stroll through the mostly empty shelves in the reloading component aisle
-stare at the back wall of their empty gun powder shelves (so who cares if they don't sell it anymore.. they barely ever did
)-wait in line at a 40 foot long gun counter staffed by 1-2 persons in the middle of a work day
-deal with people who have zero knowledge of the dept they work in - at least %50 of the time
-get 'perp walked' with your gun/ammo from the gun counter halfway across the store to the enormous line at the main cash... AGAIN staffed by two people at high noon WHY WHY WHY can we not just pay at the damn gun counter after we already have our wallet out and our (R)PAL out (even to by airgun pellets??)
If BASS PRO spent the $$$ they spent on the cheezy store motif (huge fishtank?? c'mon) and spent it on good staff and inventory.. and then actually had their prices lowered by %10-20 on many items,.. well then we would be getting somewhere..
i'm in n.b. and all i can say is bilingualism is a big pain in the ass costing millions of dollars a year and our roads are the ####s.
this is a bigger waste of money than the gun registry,too bad it won't go away too.
the issue here is outsiders from quebec moving here and want to stir up ####.look at the city of dieppe,quebec mayor and now they are forcing french first signage etc...
we are getting a bass pro shop and jut got a cabellas.i still shop my local outfitter for all my reloading supplies and his prices are much better and he will match the big u.s. retailers prices iIF his price is higher.
the only thing that is nice with more stores is more options/selection of gear.
my local outfitter has staff with 40 plus years reloading experience,my cabellas clerk when asked what powder would be best for .40 s&w says "any of them,they are all powders are basically the same"..
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^^^^^+1Bass Pro (Vaughan,ONT) is good if you want to:
-Over-pay by %20
-Have a peaceful stroll through the mostly empty shelves in the reloading component aisle
-stare at the back wall of their empty gun powder shelves (so who cares if they don't sell it anymore.. they barely ever did
-wait in line at a 40 foot long gun counter staffed by 1-2 persons in the middle of a work day
-deal with people who have zero knowledge of the dept they work in - at least %50 of the time
-get 'perp walked' with your gun/ammo from the gun counter halfway across the store to the enormous line at the main cash... AGAIN staffed by two people at high noon WHY WHY WHY can we not just pay at the damn gun counter after we already have our wallet out and our (R)PAL out (even to by airgun pellets??)
If BASS PRO spent the $$$ they spent on the cheezy store motif (huge fishtank?? c'mon) and spent it on good staff and inventory.. and then actually had their prices lowered by %10-20 on many items,.. well then we would be getting somewhere..
Obviously you have not seen what the signs are like in Richmond BC.
The few english ones are so small that all you see are Chinese and the Local Civic Politicians embrace it whole hardheartedly.
What ever there will be another store along to pick up the slack.
Budget Shooter supply, where are you?
Tight Groups,
Rob
All excellent points. Yes bass pro should/has to follow Canadian policy. But lets be realistic, the bilingual regulation is a joke. If i was on the board of directors for bass pro and i got word that all powder had to show labeling in both English and that other language i would also say screw it. Its not like they are having any problems selling the stuff down south.
Armored Metal
CGN frequent flyer
- Location
- The People's Republik of Kébekistan
Lucky you. Sail in Québec has no intention of selling powder or primers. I should ask them if it's a sticker related issue!?
It kinda makes sense to have it in french/bilingual if sold to customers who don't speak/read English, it is gun powder, not a box of cheerios. I could see liability issues if some frenchy blows himself up and then blames it on not having a french label.
As to bass pro, never been in one.
As to bass pro, never been in one.
You have to laugh...
I was in Idaho and to cut a long story short - a guy totally lost it on me - I mean off the chain - so much so that locals came up to apologise to me. His parting insult was that their packaging has French on it and I should (go forth and multiply) back to Canada. Here is the deal: goods sold in Canada need labels in two languages, goods in the US need one, the other is superfluous, so many goods in NW US are labelled up for Canada as well.
(I had parked in front of the mailbox and he had to get out of his car to post a letter - he had been at the burgers and fries for a number of years) I did mention that I didn't realise it was a main street as it looked like an alley - gotta love Moore Idaho!
I was in Idaho and to cut a long story short - a guy totally lost it on me - I mean off the chain - so much so that locals came up to apologise to me. His parting insult was that their packaging has French on it and I should (go forth and multiply) back to Canada. Here is the deal: goods sold in Canada need labels in two languages, goods in the US need one, the other is superfluous, so many goods in NW US are labelled up for Canada as well.
(I had parked in front of the mailbox and he had to get out of his car to post a letter - he had been at the burgers and fries for a number of years) I did mention that I didn't realise it was a main street as it looked like an alley - gotta love Moore Idaho!
Snakehunter
CGN Regular
- Location
- Kenora, Ontario
My last two 1lb canisters of Bullseye had French language stickers attached separately. I think for the minimal cost of a sticker they'd keep selling a product they know will fly off the shelf. Just basic business sense.
Sad day when they couldn't even get their act together to vote to separate, then blame it on "money and the ethnic vote" yet gets transfer payment every year. Now they want to vote in the Dippers to take our firearms away.
BassPro is not the only one tired of this bilingual nonsense.
BassPro is not the only one tired of this bilingual nonsense.
Trust me when I say, us anglophones are not happy either of how this province is turning out. I cannot buy an English speaking toy for my son in stores. I understand retailers not wanting to spend unecessary money for a very small market
We can pi$$ and moan about the bilingual labelling thing all we want, but it's been the law of the land since 1973 or thereabouts and it isn't about to be repealed anytime soon. I had a friend who was an exec at Winchester Canada when this came in and he told me that the extra packaging/labelling costs were one of the reasons why the plant in Cobourg, ON was shut down.
A lot of US packaging includes Spanish and French labelling as a marketing necessity. Gunpowder really isn't sold to a big enough audience to make it worthwhile I suppose. The Hodgdon cannisters I have came with a French language sticker applied to them. I don't know about their current production though. Ironically IMR powders are made in Quebec, but with no French labelling on the cans.
A lot of US packaging includes Spanish and French labelling as a marketing necessity. Gunpowder really isn't sold to a big enough audience to make it worthwhile I suppose. The Hodgdon cannisters I have came with a French language sticker applied to them. I don't know about their current production though. Ironically IMR powders are made in Quebec, but with no French labelling on the cans.
I say to hell with Bass Pro if they are not interested in supporting Canadian business.
Quebec for the most part want nothing to do with Firearms... And this Bi-ling stuff is a joke made by Trudeau 1.0. Personally everything that comes from Quebec other then Poutine... all I here is gun grab this and hate west that...
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