"Thanks!" to many of you, who let us know about J.Crew's latest mailing— the Thread— to customers. |  |  |
Also, "thanks!" to many of you, including Get Fresh, xoxo (in this post), & Clicquot (in this post), who let us know about the following special news found in the newsletter:
Oh, CanadaVery exciting news for our Canadian JCAs! I am also thrilled to get the newsletter (especially since I think I got dropped off the Catalog mailing list.) :)
Calling all Canucks. We're opening our first-ever J.Crew store in Toronto in 2011. Details are still being ironed out, but we'll be sure to keep you posted. In the meantime, you can shop online at jcrew.com (we still ship to our northern neighbors).
Did you get a copy of the Thread? What are your thoughts on the issue? Are you excited about J.Crew {finally} coming to Canada?
I haven't received this edition, yet, but did receive the first couple of issues, so it's probably on its way. Hooray for the Canada JCA's! Will look forward to reading this edition.
ReplyDeleteI haven't received mine yet...hopefully today. :)
ReplyDeleteIt kills me when you don't get something, Alexis! Who does marketing for that company? The same person doing quality control? Kidding, kidding...
ReplyDeleteNo thread yet, but Canada will get some love from 'crew. I wonder if the shipping/taxes wil drop when the store in Toronto opens.
ReplyDeleteBR started shipping to Canada from inside Canada this fall. No duty, no shipping, I must say it has cut into the $$ that used to go to 'crew. Come on J.Crew show us Canadians some love.
I got mine in the mail on Friday. It was the first time I got one. Nice to receive but not anything informative or helpful IMO. It went in the trash ASAP.
ReplyDeleteI have mixed feelings. I think it will be great for the Toronto jca's to be able to see everything irl, but you know that the taxes will be passed on to "Canadian" pricing which is usually 20% higher.
ReplyDeleteI still think it will be better to shop on line in the long run, and i hope that we can still shop off the US web site. Yes BR ships to Canada from Canada, but we never get the same sales as our southern neighbors.
Yes, it will be interesting to see how online and in-store US promos will translate to the Canadian location!
ReplyDeleteIs it wrong that I'm considering applying for a weekend job at JC when it opens? ;)
re: Canada
ReplyDeleteI'm interested.
BR/Gap/ON's Canadian online offerings aren't the same as the as the American site. I truly hope we will still be available to access the full inventory.
Zara is my personal vampire - hypnotizing me and luring me in.
I'm eager for my next visit to TO. There are some independent retailers I'd like to visit.
This is great news! Yay for TO! Sadly I [no longer] live in proximity.
ReplyDeleteAgree with JC Guy in Cananda - BR has cut waaaay into my JC shopping. Belle de jour, I usually find there's a slight lag, but Canada gets *most* of the same (regularly sized) clothes in. And I signed up for the emails - I find they send a good promo code around every two to three weeks or so.
Great news and hopefully we can still shop online. JC should follow Coach's policy of 1:1 exchange between b&m Cdn stores and US online.
ReplyDeleteThanks dmmermaid! :) It would be nice if I got the catalog mailed to me. ;)
ReplyDeleteCliquot-no you are not crazy, I would be considering to work there too, and not just for the employee discount, although I would owe more money than I would make and my DH would totally divorce me.
ReplyDeleteI'm excited about JC coming to the great frozen north (ha) but am wary about the inevitable price discrepancy between the Canadian and US stores. Hoping they DO NOT follow BR's (and EB's) route of shipping from Canada. With our dollar close to par, there's no reason why we pay 20-30% more here than down south. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable amount of duty as excised by customs, when I get my packages shipped out of the US. I'm also critical of BR not stocking petites in the Canadian online store. So let's hope JC does the right thing...
ReplyDeleteI am super excited about J. Crew coming to Canada!!! I have been asking them when they will open a store in Canada for years now and it's finally happening - I never thought it would. I just hope the prices are comparable and they offer the whole lineup, not just a selection of stuff. I also hope they offer the same kinds of sales/promos. I wonder where the store is going to be? I am guessing either Yorkdale or Shops at Don Mills...
ReplyDeleteat long last!!
ReplyDeleteso excited that I no longer have to shop on line.
(not that I completely mind shopping in my PJ's at midnight with a glass on wine in one hand and a credit card in the other.)
Can't wait to check out the new Canadian location!
Hope they use the Coach pricing premise, same as published in US and not the dreaded 30 % mark-up
ReplyDeleteI predict they will open in the Eaton Centre first as it is currently renovating so a lot of leases will be coming due. I hate making the trek to Yorkdale. Parking there is impossible. Shops at Don Mills would be a nice change too since it is close to me and Anthropologie is doing well there but they need more big-draw retailers and Jcrew would definitely be a that.
ReplyDeleteI finally just got mine in today's mail.
ReplyDeleteLooks like that first store is going to be at Yorkdale (or so a little birdie tells me). No big surprise since it is one of the more "upscale" shopping malls around the city with a huge draw from both downtown and the suburbs.
ReplyDeleteSo excited about them coming to Canada!! I know they don't stock their stores nearly as much as online but it's a start!
ReplyDeleteUmm .. (how can I put this) .. Canada is 10 million square kilometres. So J.Crew crowing: "Calling all Canucks" re: it's Toronto store is a bit, well, stupid.
ReplyDeleteSo J.Crew, you actually think all 34 million of us, uh, 'canucks' are going to rush to Toronto to shop at your first Canadian store? I mean, you did say 'all' Canucks, not just south-central-southeast corridor Canucks living between 42.23 and 44.96 degrees north latitude...
Did J.Crew even check a map of Canada? We aren't Lichtenstein; there is more to this country than the GTA.
Why is it that every American retailer who makes their first venture into Canada has to go to our biggest city?
What are we, Peru? Ecuador? Some banana-republic, with a gigantic megalopolis, surrounding by a million square miles of steaming jungle?
Jeez, man, get a life.