Yeah Wal-mart bought and replaced the old Woolco here, then built a super-walmart on the other side of the mall, and the Sears built a two-floor department store where the Woolco/Wal-mart used to be, and demolished the old Sears building due to waaaaaaay too much asbestos. The super-walmart was abandonned a year or two ago when Wal-mart built a new ultra-deluxe-super-walmart across the street, that has more variety than Putnam's Prairie Emporium. Everybody is frustrated about the huge hollow ghost of a store the old Wal-mart has become, since nobody moved in this time. The Ultra-deluxe-super-walmart is building a strip-mall around itself and moving a bunch of chain stores from the good Lambton Mall to serve as it's royal court. I'm worried the Lambton Mall might end up as bad as the Bayside Mall, full of ghosts and goblins and telemarketers.
They still have the SEARS, Toys-R-Us, and Canadian Tire, though. My father likes to tell me about the Canadian Tire sometimes. When he was a kid, it was just a little hardware shack off-downtown. When I was a kid, it was a big anchor store on the mall. Years ago they got a huge wad of cash from the Canadian Tire Fairy and became the biggest Canadian Tire in Canada for a little while. Only a little while, though, because the Canadian Tire Fairy was giving bigger wads of cash to other stores. ^.^;;
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Date: 2008-10-26 05:48 pm (UTC)They still have the SEARS, Toys-R-Us, and Canadian Tire, though. My father likes to tell me about the Canadian Tire sometimes. When he was a kid, it was just a little hardware shack off-downtown. When I was a kid, it was a big anchor store on the mall. Years ago they got a huge wad of cash from the Canadian Tire Fairy and became the biggest Canadian Tire in Canada for a little while. Only a little while, though, because the Canadian Tire Fairy was giving bigger wads of cash to other stores. ^.^;;
Ahh progress.