Talk:Future Shop

message: Don't really understand why the focus on Future Shop's marketing in this article is so ethno-centric. I can't imagine that civil rights activists are gritting their teeth at the so-called "bumbling" black customer, who is clearly just a customer asking about deals to advance the joke.
The article now says the ads were praised - I'm removing the paragraph as it has not been cited and is (apparently) subject to debate.
Deleted from Marketing: Future Shop has recently been lauded as having some of the best television advertisements in Canada. Recent advertisements featured a store manager who watches on in surprise and frustration as his bumbling employees attempt various humorous sales strategies. The manager then intervenes helpfully. Civil rights activists have praised these campaigns for portraying an intelligent black Canadian in a higher-powered job.
--Jwagar 01:12, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Race depiction in Future Shop marketing 

message: Questioning the Slogans section...
# Are these slogans notable?  (Every company has lots of them and these don't seem particularly interesting.)
# Can these be verified?
The latter is particularly important. --Ds13 21:54, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slogans 

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:FutureShopcurrentlogo.PNG

message: Many of edits of this page and Best Buy page were made by IP 199.60.112.10 and IP 199.60.112.15 which belong to Future Shop - see http://wikiscanner.virgil.gr/f.php?pagetitle=future+shop
Bobanni 04:51, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertising

message: Any particular reason why there's a picture of a Best Buy store on the Future Shop article? I know Best Buy owns Future Shop, but that alone is a pretty weak argument for keeping a picture of a BB store on the FS article. --hfx_chris (talk) 16:42, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best Buy image 

message: Use of the word branding may be confusing.  Would be best to replace word "branding" with "name" when discussing remaining Future Shop stores in Canada being operated by Best Buy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sydney Rigdon (talk • contribs) 04:28, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Branding 

message: Much of the information in the article lacks sources. Compuryan (talk) 21:43, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: How much did Best Buy pay for Future Shop? At the start of the article it says $480 million and later it says 'more than $500 million'. Cavenba (talk • contribs) 05:11, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purchase price? 

message: In many cases across the country, such as Lansdowne Centre in Richmond, British Columbia; Heartland Town Centre in Mississauga, Ontario; Centre Laval, Laval, Quebec; Marché Central in Montreal; Promenades Saint-Bruno, Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, Quebec; Merivale Road in Ottawa; Sherway Gardens and the Toronto Eaton Centre areas in Toronto; in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador; and Northland Village Mall in Calgary; either the existing Future Shop location is in the same shopping centre as the more-recently opened Best Buy location or the two stores open in tandem in close proximity.
That sentence is still almost readable.  Can someone please make it a little more difficult to read?  Perhaps list every instance, instead of "many" instances.  --Stacecom (talk) 20:25, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  I had a go at this.  PKT(alk) 15:16, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Run-on sentence 

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