[78-L] A "heads up" for our Canuck contingent...!

[David Lennick]

Hey..I hadn't even noticed that BiWay had gone bi-byes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylex
-The BiWay stores chain was acquired by Hardof Wolf Group, a shell company for 
the United States-based McCrory Stores, a dollar store chain. The Fairweather 
chain was purchased by a private Canadian investment consortium. McCrory had 
announced its intentions to convert all of the BiWay stores into a dollar store 
chain to be named Dollar Zone, named after their chain of dollar stores in the 
United States. These plans did not go through however, and in August 2001, all 
BiWay stores, save for a few Toronto area locations, were shuttered for good 
and Hardof Wolf left with all of the employees' money. The courts finally 
forced Hardof Wolf to pay back some of the money it stole from the employees.

-Recently, however, a few formerly "abandoned" BiWay stores have been converted 
to other uses, such as Giant Tiger, The Bargain! Shop, and Dollarama.

--dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> For those of you who have a "Dollarama"  $1 store within reach (the chain 
> took
> over old Bi-Way locations...!)...they have been selling remaindered 
> Hindsight
> CD's for $1 per each...as well as other "cut-out" CD's. mostly c&w! This is 
> a
> easy and CHEAP way to acquire a whole bunch of listenable recorded 
> music...?!
> 
> I bought Volumes 2,3,4 and 5 (still need Vol. 1, plus any over 5...?!) of
> "Uncollected (big? swing?) Band Music...for Cdn$1/per each! These are
> mostly taken from transcriptions and/or recordings of "remotes"...I shall
> be posting questions as to some of this stuff...?! In the meantime, it is an
> opportunity to acquire some VERY listenable CD's, for a VERY VERY
> reasonable cost (a Canuck Buck per each...!!)!
> 
> The remaindered discs also include a WHOLE bunch of reissues of
> "hillbilly" performances...for those who, like myself, like the stuff...?!
> 
> ...stevenc 
>