Heard that the PR AW will be one of the ones closing down and being converted into a Sport Chek that will occupy the current AW spot in addition to the old San Francisco/Please Mum and Sports Locker corner of that side of the mall.
LOL!! Rupert rumours are HILARIOUS!!! Apparently I need to pay more attention to this site :-/
The Rupert Athletes World isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, nor is it being converted to a SportChek. The Terrace AW store isn’t being converted to a SportChek either… it is opening in a completely different spot in the Skeena Mall, along with Winners.
As for occupying the 4 store fronts between Athletes World and the Royal Bank… I WISH!! You must have been talking to the same mall employees who said Wal-Mart was taking over the whole top floor! LOL
As for AW…what do you have to say about the news article about the Forzani Group planning to shutter all of their smaller sports brand stores…clearly something is happening there.
[quote=“smartass”]**LOL!! Rupert rumours are HILARIOUS!!! Apparently I need to pay more attention to this site :-/
The Rupert Athletes World isn’t going anywhere anytime soon**, nor is it being converted to a SportChek. The Terrace AW store isn’t being converted to a SportChek either… it is opening in a completely different spot in the Skeena Mall, along with Winners.
As for occupying the 4 store fronts between Athletes World and the Royal Bank… I WISH!! You must have been talking to the same mall employees who said Wal-Mart was taking over the whole top floor! LOL[/quote]
The Rupert Athletes World isn’t going anywhere anytime ** soon **, nor is it being converted to a SportChek. The Terrace AW store isn’t being converted to a SportChek either… it is opening in a completely different spot in the Skeena Mall, along with Winners.[/quote]
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In my world… next week is soon. 5 minutes is soon - not 9 months away!
We were told about the closures in May that affects each and every Athletes World in Canada. It has nothing to do with Rupert… our Rupert store does AMAZING!!
We were also reminded that 9 months was a long ways away and that we weren’t to speak of the closures with media of any form - websites, word of mouth, or the like. Sorry, but I like my job, and even though my position may be changing soon, I wasn’t about to blab all over the place about the store’s impending doom.
As it stands now, we are open until the end of January 2013… and if certain factors play along, possibly until the end of March.
We were in Terrace yesterday, first time since August and was quite impressed with the ongoing renovations at Skeena Mall. The Sportchek store is incredible and the new Dollarama is huge. They have spruced up the Mall itself, new lighting, couches for people to sit and enjoy a coffee. Great job! Liquidation World is great too, found some awesome deals there. As nice as it would be, I really can’t imagine Sportchek opening another location within such a close distance. They seem to be doing well and those that said Terrace residents were visiting Rupert to shop at Dollarama, ooops, their store will be awesome too! Winners will soon be locating there and there were quite a number of Rupertites in Terrace yesterday, M&M Meats, Total Pet, huge Marks etc., all shopping up a storm! I am sorry for the employees of Athletes’ World, they are a good crew and wish them well in the future.
Glad to hear you had such a good day shopping in Terrace… I am over due as well, because there are several things I need. Terrace is and always will be the shopping area for the region. I am soon due for my fix of real walmart as well. Yes the mall in Terrace was starting to look great last time I was there. Like you I can’t see Sports Chek opening a location this close.