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>As an American I dated a Canadian for several years in >the 1980s. >While I was visiting her family in Toronto I did tag >along on a trip to Eatons once after it, like Sears >and Montgomery Ward in the US, was already well past >it's peak. >It had a different "Feel" than any US Department store. > You knew you were in Canada! > >Eatons sold a lot of things that were not their own >"Etonia" brand. Sears never did that until it already >had oone foot in the grave. > >Another importanmt difference was that, in their >catalog, every price you saw was the final. > out the door "Delivered" price >No extra for shipping. >No Provencial Sales tax the way you had to add state >sales tax in some states of the US > >The price shown was the "out the door" price. > >Don't know if Simpsons was the same way or not! > > >Also at it's peak Eaton's dominated Canadian Retail to >a degree that Sears,, JC Penny and Wards combined >never did > >I saw a figure that in Winnepeg at least, as much as >60c on every dollar spent in retail stores in Winnepeg >was spent at Eatons > >Even in the heyday if the catalog Sears never got >close to those numbers. > > >At least I DID get to see Eaton's while it was still >there to see.

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