“Robson” in Vancouver is synonymous with crowded sidewalks, tour buses, a block of stores that sell nothing but accessories, and a strip of restaurants with waitresses in little black skirts. However there is more history in this town than that when it comes down to the name.
Jim Robson: Much more than simply a broadcast gondola [...]

The last time I was at Metrotown it was to sit on Santa’s knee with Keira that also happened to be when first I noticed the little train carting young ones and their parents around the ground floor of the mall.
It wasn’t until recently that I discovered that the train provides more than mid-mall [...]

Photo credit: SqueakyMarmot on Flickr
Sapperton Days are back again this year, celebrating a great little heritage neighbourhood in New Westminster.
When: Saturday June 21st - Sidewalk Sale, 10am to 4pm and Sunday June 22nd - Street Festival, 11am to 4pm.
Where: Between Braid & Sherbrooke Streets on East Columbia, New Westminster
How to get there: You could drive [...]

In this is the age of “do it yourself” with self-serve checkouts and the ability to purchase anything, anywhere, anytime from the comfort of our own living room with a computer, I actually really miss some nice in-person, good old fashioned customer service.
When I worked in retail (Surrey Place Mall represent!) we had a store [...]

Photo credit: Paul Hillsdon on Flickr
At 10:00am on May 24th, 2008 Vancouver’s first Apple Store will open its doors in Pacific Centre.
More info:
- Grand Opening Pacific Centre
- Apple Store Grand Opening May 34
- Apple Store Opening May 24 Pacific Centre
- Apple Store Vancouver to Open May 24
- H&M Vancouver and the Apple Store, A Match [...]

I think I’ve had maybe 3 pedicures in my life, most recently at Element in Yaletown with Keira just before her birthday back in December. It was lovely and I particularly loved sitting in massage chairs, getting the royal treatment from the knee down and spending some down time with a friend.
Photo credit: Derek [...]

Recently malls have offered lounge areas in their corridors where you’ll find a throw rug, leather arm chairs, maybe a couch, and a handful of husbands camping out until their wives resurface with the credit cards at which time they become porters, carrying all goods purchased out to the vehicle.
I for one know that I [...]

After my preview post for tomorrow’s shoe sale I got in touch with the company and was fortunate enough to interview Tania Berrios who is the Jr. Buyer for the Shoe Department at Army and Navy.
How long has the Army & Navy Shoe Sale been around?
The Shoe Sale has been going on now for over [...]

Although we no longer have the “$1.49 day - Woodwards” theme chiming through our radios there are still many traditions in local retail shopping that have lived on to the point of being legendary. Growing up in Surrey, it was always A&B Sound on Boxing Day, and in other cities it’s been the annual Army [...]

Photo Credit: Joe Pelletier’sGreatest Hockey Legends
I was recently inspired to write another post of this nature based on how I was able to enlighten folks to the fact that there was much more to Joe Fortes than an oyster bar.
Whenever I hear the ad for Cyclone Taylor Sports on morning radio it gets stuck in [...]