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« on: October 23, 2004, 08:55:28 PM »
I feel it doesn't matter what chain is owned by who. U.S. products are always mirrored by Canadian demand and regulated in most cases by U.S. companies. i.e. Hasbro Canada is regulated by Hasbro Inc. (a U.S. company) Hasbro Canada is only a branch and has to follow corporate policies handed down by Hasbro U.S. Meaning Hasbro is American. GM & Ford are U.S. companies. So when it comes to Canadian or U.S. my only concern is that we get equal employment oppurtunities and the same quality and variety of products.
In the case of Zellers/Target: Target carries GIjoe and Joe exclusives, Zellers does not.
We can also thank our government for the lack of GIJoe variety due to their bilingual packaging policies that create higher production costs. Hence also the lack of mini comics in earlier waves. First run production always goes to the States. Larger market, more demand.