Cabelas in Ottawa! It's happening

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For what it's worth, Ottawa cannot really be considered a small town. It's probably the 4th largest market in Canada behind Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. If you want to focus on the core fishing products that Cabella's sells, one could make an argument that Ottawa would be the third biggest market behind Toronto and Montreal. The Vancouver market would be VERY heavily focused on salmon and trout and warm water species are generally a complete afterthought (they wouldn't even exist in the area if it wasn't for illegal stocking).

There are indeed challenges with opening a store like this in Quebec and if you think about Cabella's as a "destination" store, they could very well be looking at drawing from Montreal, which increases the market size immensely. Ottawa is probably also a relatively stable market, high average incomes, an outdoors minded area, etc. Combined with the other outlet stores that are breaking ground out in Kanata and the draw effect they would have, I can definitely see the logic in locating here.
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Bass Addict wrote:Eugene Melnyk will open a Casino in Kanata before Cabelas will open a Superstore
Cabela can't be classified as a "Superstore" because they don't sell Dobyns rods.

If Cabela ever does decide to open a shop in Kanata, they better do so before ice fishing is banned on the 31 mile lake.
Otherwise, their winter ice fishing department would take a nose dive.
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Smitty maybe your buddy meant BPS?
When hell freezes over, I'll be there icefishing!!!

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I work for the city. Its not cabelas but a **** Pro. Didnt hear it from me ;)
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Odot it's not a secret, it's all over the news. So your job is safe!
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I'm positive he said Cabelas, but obviously the names got mixed up somewhere along the line. Oh well lol. I was right about most of it. It still brings forth my initial discussion point about how this might affect all the present retailers in the area. I guess we'll find out eventually.

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Personally I can't wait for it to open! Never been to one before and this one is going to be massive. I don't think it will hurt local retailers too much because its in a area with limited bait shops CLOSE by. I will still be going to gords to get minnows anyways so this could be a win win situation for everyone involved.
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The sun said basspro shop was opening in kanata in 2015...
http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/11/13/bas ... re-in-2015
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Jimmy_1 wrote:I'm not so sure I believe this.

Big Box stores need to have a huge demographic before opening.
Montreal and Toronto have a much larger population base.

I looked into opening a franchise a long time ago. I was told that the area I wanted to put it in was "too small"
I needed a demographic population base of 40,000 people. To open a small scale supplement franchise!!!
So the town I was considering, has a population of 9,600 and was deemed unsuitable for a franchise license.

My reason is ...why would Cabela's or Bass Pro open a store in a city of 883,391 (2011 census) over say Toronto that has 5.5M people?
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The demographics aren't even comparable!
The National Capital Region has a population of 1.3 million but the other factor is income and Ottawa has the highest avg income in the country.
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smitty55 wrote:I'm positive he said Cabelas, but obviously the names got mixed up somewhere along the line. Oh well lol. I was right about most of it. It still brings forth my initial discussion point about how this might affect all the present retailers in the area. I guess we'll find out eventually.

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It is Cabelas the reason i know this is Bass Pro is part of another devlopement in the same area.
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NMG wrote:For what it's worth, Ottawa cannot really be considered a small town. It's probably the 4th largest market in Canada behind Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. If you want to focus on the core fishing products that Cabella's sells, one could make an argument that Ottawa would be the third biggest market behind Toronto and Montreal. The Vancouver market would be VERY heavily focused on salmon and trout and warm water species are generally a complete afterthought (they wouldn't even exist in the area if it wasn't for illegal stocking).

There are indeed challenges with opening a store like this in Quebec and if you think about Cabella's as a "destination" store, they could very well be looking at drawing from Montreal, which increases the market size immensely. Ottawa is probably also a relatively stable market, high average incomes, an outdoors minded area, etc. Combined with the other outlet stores that are breaking ground out in Kanata and the draw effect they would have, I can definitely see the logic in locating here.
Ottawa is one of the most stable market in Canada there is very little risk.
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http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new ... -in-kanata

Obviously, it's still just an article, but this is more than a random source.

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lapointeric wrote:http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-new ... -in-kanata

Obviously, it's still just an article, but this is more than a random source.

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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/cabela ... 2014-11-18
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Well it's great to see it finally happening. I've been a fan since the 70's. Probably spent more on clothing than gear. Too bad it's a watered down version in Canada but will still be nice to not have to order.
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smitty55 wrote: Funny how there's no more smart aleck comments...
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