Canada Only Deals!

[AldeanFan]

I stopped in at the local Peavy tonight,
I think they had more going out of business signs than they had merchandise.

Things were marked down 10-30%,
Not many deals and lots of picked over shelves.

They also had a sign that the gas bottle program is on hold, whatever that means.

 

[matthew]

One of the big problems for Peavey was that they were neither the grocery store nor the convenience store:

A quarter of the store was stuff like plumbing, electrical, fasteners, and such. While they were more rural, you could buy an electrical outlet cheaper just down the street in most towns they were in. And you wouldn’t buy a bunch there. But they weren’t often convenient for the one or two.

The selection was okay, but someone should really price things like Lee Valley. Buy one $4. Buy 2 it’s 3:50. Buy 5 it’s $3. Buy 10+ and it’s $2. Get the convenience store and supermarket customers.

 

[Jay__Dub]

I shopped at Peavey on occasion, but there were very few people in there. When it was TSC, it seemed to be busier. Online shopping has also killed off any businesses that were straddling the line in my opinion. Buying everything on Amazon has been a big problem for a lot of brick and mortar retailers. But since they opened in Ontario, I thought the 2 I went in to were always disorganized, messy, and short staffed.

 

[Two Speed]

I'll miss them. Mostly for decently priced bulk fasteners--along with having mass quantities available.

 

[cannuck]

I will miss Peavy as they were my go-to for a few things - children's work clothing and gloves in particular. They were a supliment to Princess Auto and an alternative to China T...er...CANADIAN tire. They overexpanded just as Covid hit and screwed up a lot of markeplaces. Went over on Thursday to scope out any buys but very little discount (less than their normal sales disc) and had to wait for a parking spot.

 

[rancherbill]

Hopefully, PA, CT, Rona will getting more local stuff. HD is already 100% US and won't change.

What are some Canadians brands for these stores to start stocking?

For DIY stuff,, Home Hardware, Rona, and local guys like Lute's have a lot of Canadian stuff.

 

[AldeanFan]

I recently found out that beautytone paint at HomeHardware is made in Canada. I use it for all my painting. The PURE version is excellent!

 

[scooby074]

Hopefully, PA, CT, Rona will getting more local stuff. HD is already 100% US and won't change.

What are some Canadians brands for these stores to start stocking?

For DIY stuff,, Home Hardware, Rona, and local guys like Lute's have a lot of Canadian stuff.

Picqic and Megapro screwdrivers are great products, Canadian owned, mostly made in Canada depending on model.

Id love to see Canadian Tire bring in more Canadian product, like Gray tools, or even more Euro tools from Wera or the other Germans.

 

[AldeanFan]

Emzone at Princess auto is Canadian made, they have brake cleaner and some other car care products, I like their carpet cleaner.

Some Kleen-Flo is made in Canada, I really like their stuff.

Rust Check products and Krown products I have on hand are Canadian made, I use these a lot

 

[rancherbill]

The last time they gamed us on softwood lumber, I stopped buying US produce. I still don't buy it. I buy Canadian or stuff that Costco brings from South America in the winter. I have gone back to seasonal eating like when I was a kid. We never had lettuce in winter. I do not miss it at all.

 

[rancherbill]

Id love to see Canadian Tire bring in more Canadian product, like Gray tools, .....

It is not going to happen. I wanted to get a toolbox full of Gray and actually bought several things. I got another hand full at auctions.

There is not a retail location in Calgary. KMS stopped carrying them a couple of years ago. The only places that carry them are the industrial wholesalers where the customers are spending company money. I also saw their rolling tool carts at a hospital that I am sure has a buy canadian policy.

My dream of a tool box full of Gray and Snapon is waiting for a lottery win.

 

[gooned]

It is not going to happen. I wanted to get a toolbox full of Gray and actually bought several things. I got another hand full at auctions.

There is not a retail location in Calgary. KMS stopped carrying them a couple of years ago. The only places that carry them are the industrial wholesalers where the customers are spending company money. I also saw their rolling tool carts at a hospital that I am sure has a buy canadian policy.

My dream of a tool box full of Gray and Snapon is waiting for a lottery win.

Gray is pretty much Grainger (Acklands) only I think? And definitely spendy.

 

[scooby074]

It is not going to happen. I wanted to get a toolbox full of Gray and actually bought several things. I got another hand full at auctions.

There is not a retail location in Calgary. KMS stopped carrying them a couple of years ago. The only places that carry them are the industrial wholesalers where the customers are spending company money. I also saw their rolling tool carts at a hospital that I am sure has a buy canadian policy.

My dream of a tool box full of Gray and Snapon is waiting for a lottery win.

Oh they wouldnt be cheap at CT, more as a replacement to Wera they sell now.

Plus there was a time when Gray was OEM for Mastercraft believe it or not!

 

[RyanE]

Gray is pretty much Grainger (Acklands) only I think? And definitely spendy.

Both Staples and Home Depot also have pretty extensive online listings for Gray Tools in Canada. I've never ordered from either but they appear to advertise free shipping.

 

[mr57]

Gray is pretty much Grainger (Acklands) only I think? And definitely spendy.

If you can't buy a complete set of older Gray wrenches at a farm auction, FB marketplace or a garage sale for $50 or less you aren't trying hard enough..I bought 2 sets 1/4-1 1/4, a prybar and a couple tire irons for less than $70. Garage sales especially....

 

[PlanB]

I am very willing to buy used from garage sales etc. But the reality is that this doesn't support the company.... now having said that, I am too cheap to buck up the $ for Gray

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Anyone see the parallel between Amazon growing rapidly and the loss of stores similar to Peavey?

 

[PhantomEB]

However every product appears to be marked down 10%.

I wonder if they will progressively mark things down until it’s all gone?

I know the Demise of Peaveymart will be here sooner than later, so Friday I will be back in on my weekly check on a few things I want but not at even 10% off.

 

[scooby074]

Great deal on right now for Zep hand cleaner @ Bumper to Bumper (Professional). $35 for the jug of handcleaner (sale says TKO, but my branch gave me the better Reach for same price) and $15 for the wall mounted pump made in Ireland of all places!. The pump alone is worth $50 if bought separate.

IMHO this is in the top 3 best hand cleaners out there. Way better than Fast Orange. This has been one of my favourite hand cleaners going back more than 20 years. At this price its a no-braner. To give an idea of how sweet a deal this is, a gallon of Reach is $80 at Acklands, or $70 at Tenequip. Its under $50 at Amazon, but you need to buy 4 gallons (!) to get that price

 

[scooby074]

Gray is pretty much Grainger (Acklands) only I think? And definitely spendy.

My ex-employer Motion, was a dealer for Gray and their import line Dynamic. Gray isnt cheap, but believe it or not, its not the dealer making the money, theyre wasnt much margin on Gray. Its expensive to do that forging work in Canada.

Gray does some pretty good sales through their website. Their sale prices are super competitive.

 

[PhantomEB]

Peaveymart still mostly 10% off some 20%. Muck boots and bibs still ain’t what I willing to pay.

 

[ObnoxiousFumes]

Peaveymart still mostly 10% off some 20%. Muck boots and bibs still ain’t what I willing to pay.

Stopped in today and saw some 25 and 30% tags too actually, but nothing I really need or want.
Shelves are emptying quickly here in Mennonite country

 

[Jay__Dub]

Anyone see the parallel between Amazon growing rapidly and the loss of stores similar to Peavey?

Absolutely. I do everything I can to stick to local stores. Rarely buy anything on Amazon, or Rock Auto unless I have to. The problem is that often I have found Canadian stores like NAPA Canada absolutely goon you for parts. I don't mind paying more to buy local, but I have found the difference in some of the pricing just crazy. However, there are other online CDN retailers like Parts Avatar, and The Wrench Monkey I have used often with comparable pricing.

 

[AldeanFan]

Absolutely. I do everything I can to stick to local stores. Rarely buy anything on Amazon, or Rock Auto unless I have to. The problem is that often I have found Canadian stores like NAPA Canada absolutely goon you for parts. I don't mind paying more to buy local, but I have found the difference in some of the pricing just crazy. However, there are other online CDN retailers like Parts Avatar, and The Wrench Monkey I have used often with comparable pricing.

It’s tough sometimes to buy Canadian or from a Canadian retailer.
I wanted a cast iron griddle.
$40 in the US,
$160 at Peavy Mart or Bass Pro in Canada.
And no matter where I buy it it’s made in china.

 

[jollygreengiant]

Absolutely. I do everything I can to stick to local stores. Rarely buy anything on Amazon, or Rock Auto unless I have to. The problem is that often I have found Canadian stores like NAPA Canada absolutely goon you for parts. I don't mind paying more to buy local, but I have found the difference in some of the pricing just crazy. However, there are other online CDN retailers like Parts Avatar, and The Wrench Monkey I have used often with comparable pricing.

Yep. I've always tried to support Canadian but that has its limits. I'm not shopping local and paying 4x the price for something I can get online.

 

[rancherbill]

It’s tough sometimes to buy Canadian or from a Canadian retailer.
I wanted a cast iron griddle.
$40 in the US,
$160 at Peavy Mart or Bass Pro in Canada.
And no matter where I buy it it’s made in china.

I agree. I had a preference of buying Canadian and then US. I responded to another thread something from AliExpress or temu or some Chinese site. The chinese site and the American Sites were selling the same product, except the American was three times as much.

I needed a set of three gauges for my skid steer. I ordered them thinking they were coming from China via Canada Post. I was surprised when they came UPS within a week from somewhere in Torontoland. The Chinese vendor is listed Teemu or Aliexpress in China and ships from their Toronto location that I am sure supplies Amazon and OTHERS.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

Absolutely. I do everything I can to stick to local stores. Rarely buy anything on Amazon, or Rock Auto unless I have to. The problem is that often I have found Canadian stores like NAPA Canada absolutely goon you for parts. I don't mind paying more to buy local, but I have found the difference in some of the pricing just crazy. However, there are other online CDN retailers like Parts Avatar, and The Wrench Monkey I have used often with comparable pricing.

Thanks for sharing the other CDN retailers as I’ve never heard of either. I try to keep my Amazon purchases to a minimum, especially now that their prices are rising rapidly. Lately we have been looking a little deeper at the labelling. My wife and I were at Costco and she was looking for an item that there are only 2 options. The spec she was looking for was not what she wanted so we will be buying the item elsewhere even though the cost will be higher.
Funny story for you guys. I purchased an old school microscope at an online auction for my Grandson. Since I was only using auction supplied pictures, so won sight unseen. The refracting mirror was missing and a poor quality bubbled flat mirror was ****. Couldn’t find it locally, or should say didn’t know where to even look for it. So off to Amazon. Found a variety for sale from $5-$20 plus. Found one and send the seller an email checking that the mirror was concave or not. Answer came back that one side was concave the other side flat. I’m not on Prime member so I got my daughter to order it for me as she sends her packages to our house anyway. I added in the tax and gave her $7 which she said was okay but her Mom said take the $7 Taxes in

Since it was in my shopping cart I got notice that that mirror was now $14.99. I found that funny but didn’t take it out of my cart. About 2 weeks later I check my cart and the mirror was now $20. I don’t know if my email to the seller thought he had something special or not as most of the other mirrors stated a concave mirror which triggered me. So basically a quadrupling of price in about a month span.
Amazon is not exactly a cheap place to shop anymore. The Quebec Amazon distribution centres are being shut down supposedly to being unionized. The big B must be needing some rocket fuel money, I guess.

 

[JradM]

Went to Peavy today, figuring I need some shelves - and they just sent that email advertising 40% off.

Although there were signs for "up to 40% off" in the store, nearly every department had 10% signs instead. Still, I was surprised how barren the shelves were. Lots of the shelving units have been removed (the store ones, not the type I was shopping for).

If they're selling stuff at 10% off, obviously that's the right move. I left with nothing though. 10% might be a deal of I need something, but it's not enough to motivate unnecessary purchasing.

E.g. I thought about a Dewalt polesaw, but $240 is regular price and 10% off... probably get that during any sale.

Nevertheless, the parking lot was full and people lined the aisles.

 

[AldeanFan]

Some people are fooled by the Sale sign.

One friend assumes everything is automatically cheap if it’s on sale.
He would happily buy an item for $50 if it was 10% off over the same item for $40 regular price somewhere else .
Ignorance is bliss I guess

 

[PhantomEB]

The Muckboots I want Still 10% off, girl said I seen you come in weekly to see those boots. how come you ain’t brought? I said ain’t 25% off yet.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Yeah they will have to do way better than 10% to get my attention.

 

[Miss the Pontiacs]

By the time the boots are 25% off they will only have sizes 7 and 17.

 

[PhantomEB]

And hopefully the 9.5s for me where the box is damaged. I need em for camping.

 

[Two Speed]

Absolutely. I do everything I can to stick to local stores. Rarely buy anything on Amazon, or Rock Auto unless I have to. The problem is that often I have found Canadian stores like NAPA Canada absolutely goon you for parts. I don't mind paying more to buy local, but I have found the difference in some of the pricing just crazy. However, there are other online CDN retailers like Parts Avatar, and The Wrench Monkey I have used often with comparable pricing.

At one time blower motors where made practically locally (20 minutes from my house local). Pricing for a blower motor for my square body was more than double the price of the four seasons blower on Rockauto even including shipping. I order from rockauto, I was surprised to see it was made in canada, and shocked to see the blower motor was stamped from the local factory .
Sad state of affairs when I need to buy my made in Canada parts that have travelled umpteen miles, made two border crossings, pay for shipping, pay for exchange rate and still come out ahead of buying from any of the local auto parts suppliers for a part that was made within spitting distance of my house.

 

[Jay__Dub]

Man that is crazy, hard to figure.

 

[matthew]

Not as crazy as it seems at first blush.

At least for my company, pricing has much more to do with sales volume than freight cost.

 

[lilredex]

Got my new PAL catalogue today. If you do any sheet metal work, a (Lenox) notcher will help. Cuts 18 Ga steel. $14 starting Feb 25.

https://www.princessauto.com/en/product/PA0009377607#reviews-box

Also an auto darkening welding hood for $24.44

https://www.princessauto.com/en/flip-front-auto-darkening-welding-helmet/product/PA0009099706

https://www.princessauto.com/en/2-pc-lens-cover-replacements-for-9099706/product/PA0009171125?srsltid=AfmBOoq6S5Dj1O0sUlXd-4_Y1hWBXF16k8vKN03gaRQxnlTY0mCPIGv3

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Got my new PAL catalogue today. If you do any sheet metal work, a (Lenox) notcher will help. Cuts 18 Ga steel. $14 starting Feb 25.

https://www.princessauto.com/en/product/PA0009377607#reviews-box

Also an auto darkening welding hood for $24.44

https://www.princessauto.com/en/flip-front-auto-darkening-welding-helmet/product/PA0009099706

https://www.princessauto.com/en/2-pc-lens-cover-replacements-for-9099706/product/PA0009171125?srsltid=AfmBOoq6S5Dj1O0sUlXd-4_Y1hWBXF16k8vKN03gaRQxnlTY0mCPIGv3

How do you find the prices? Your links show higher prices.

 

[JradM]

How do you find the prices? Your links show higher prices.

I presume they came out of the paper flyer. You might see the same on the online flyer preview.

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

Got my new PAL catalogue today. If you do any sheet metal work, a (Lenox) notcher will help. Cuts 18 Ga steel. $14 starting Feb 25.

https://www.princessauto.com/en/product/PA0009377607#reviews-box

Also an auto darkening welding hood for $24.44

https://www.princessauto.com/en/flip-front-auto-darkening-welding-helmet/product/PA0009099706

https://www.princessauto.com/en/2-pc-lens-cover-replacements-for-9099706/product/PA0009171125?srsltid=AfmBOoq6S5Dj1O0sUlXd-4_Y1hWBXF16k8vKN03gaRQxnlTY0mCPIGv3

Was just in the Calgary north store and saw the lenox cutters priced at 19.99.
Didn't check the other stuff as I have all I need.