Comments on: H&M Vancouver, More like Coquitlam

By: H&M Vancouver and the Apple Store, a Match Made in Heaven » Vancouver Blog Miss604

Fri, 02 May 2008 16:22:51 +0000

[...] York, London, Toronto, Boston, and Coquitlam, BC are all locations of H&M at which I have had the pleasure of handing over cold hard cash to [...]

By: chupchup

chupchup — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 10:17:39 +0000

i was there – long lineups outside and inside – but the one outside moved fast

cheap cheap cheap and people left with armloads

yay

re a commecnt further up about robson rent – i heard that the GAP on robson pays over one million in rent a year – thats gotta be like $110,00 a month

its up there

By: Miss604’s Canuck Life :: A Vancouver Blog » Blog Archive » Thursday Morning Link Fest

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:36:29 +0000

[...] The ‘Ikea’ of clothing, H&M comes to ‘Metro Vancouver’ today, opening up at Coquitlam Centre. The Swedish retailer is known for taking current runway fashions and then ‘churning them out for the masses’ at bargain prices. (YAY!) [Miss604] [...]

By: chupchup

chupchup — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 00:54:20 +0000

yes – H&M says theyenvision 10 stores for the Vancouver market according to an article in the newspaper

the old holt renfrew is on granville street – i can imagine it will have a granville street entrance just like holt renfrew has now

and if its like every other city H&Ms will pop up within 5 minutes of each other

in san francisco there are 3 H&M stores all within a 5 minute walk of each other

they all carry different lines only the big store carries the mens line – the other two have womens only – h&M has a bunch of different lines and depending on store size does not carry them all under one roof

By: natasha

natasha — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:33:04 +0000

h and m are opening on granville street too i heard

By: chupchup

chupchup — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:15:23 +0000

According to this report Pacific Centre will be making the old Holt Renfrew into a 25,000 sq ft store and nine smaller spaces

H&M will easily be the 25,000 sq ft space

The store at Coquitlam Centre is huge its where MEC used to be – two other stores were moved to make room for H&M

I don’t see why it will be Fall 2007 – work has already started on the space and the stores themselves aren’t that much building wise

By: Adelaide

Adelaide — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:38:12 +0000

Oh wow….I’d totally check it in downtown. I don’t think I’ve been in Coquitlam Centre since I was a wee kid. When they still had those telephones during christmas, that you’d pick up and talk to Rudolph and Santa {LOL}

I don’t head to Coquitlam. Mind you, don’t really have any friends that live there either…

By: Flash

Flash — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 19:28:30 +0000

Rebecca… Good news for you… happy shopping!

By: Miss604

Miss604 — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:27:36 +0000

From Pacific Centre's Wiki (so it must be kinda right): "New Retailers for Pacific Centre will include Williams Sonoma, Pottery Barn, Sephora, H&M, and an expanded flagship Roots location."

By: Flash

Flash — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 18:25:45 +0000

I did say that there would be exceptions. Yes there a lot of $1 pizza places and other cheap places, but they also tend to close or change owners a lot, or tend to locate where they are offered cheap rent because the building is scheduled to be knocked down for a new complex in 2 or 3 years.

Rilah’s example of Virgin is a great example that I almost used myself.

Costco may be a warehouse club, but they certainly aren’t discount products. Costco is known for carrying brand names, and for catering to a more upscale clientele. One of my first jobs was at the one on Grandview when it first opened (and was a competitor at the time), we did millions of dollars of business each month. Back then it only cost $3 million to stock the entire place, and we did $2 million on the opening weekend.

For a real popular place, you can locate in a high rent place and make a profit even if your prices are not high… but if you can locate the same store in the suburbs, get close to the same level of business, and pay a third the rent, where is a smart business going to locate first?