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Target Canada Opening Day
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Some of the Targets around here have started to open, including one of the stores close to me so I decided to check it out. I got some pics of the outside and of the lighting aisle. Interesting all their GE bulbs use the new package design while most other stores here have the old style GE packages. I also bought a box of 100w bulbs and a 2 pack of 25 watters as I've yet to see the new GE package design here.
Oh and they use 3500K T8s in troffers identical to the two lamps ones in the pic. It's didn't show up on my pics though.
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The new store has existing stock pulled from the warehouse whereas the older store still have NOS at the shelf. They leave it at the shelves until exhausted for more stock to be replaced. For example, the never popular 15 Watts A15 bulb would sit on the shelves for almost forever whereas the most popular ones such as 100 Watts and 60 Watts are usually flying off from the shelves.
Also I heard three Zeller's stores will remain open, one in Toronto, one in Montreal and another in Surrey, BC.
Yeah most US companies have more or less identical stores in Canada. Lowe's does too but I think the US ones have a wider selection.
Regarding the packaging, I don't think the old style ones were old stock as the lamps inside still had 2013 date codes on them so I think GE might have kept the old style packs for the Canadian market.