Lambton Road Cash & Carry
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Lambton Road Cash and Carry
Early in August 2000, Mr. Don Barlow, manager or Lambton Road Cash and Carry, a retail lumber and home improvement supply centre located in Sarnia, Ontario, learned that Beaver Lumber Co. had acquired a property directly across Lambton Road from his location. Mr. Barlow also understood plan for the establishment of the Beaver outlet, which would focus on retail sales, were well advanced and construction was to begin soon. Beaver Lumber had operated in Sarnia for some time. Their main emphasis had been wholesaling (sales to trades-people, contractors, industries, etc.) from a yard located in an older, industrialized section of Sarnia.
Lambton Road was a main thoroughfare in the northeast part of the city. Two nearby shopping malls built in the last year, whose stores were open from 10:00 to 22:00, guaranteed a reasonable flow of traffic past the Cash and Carry store.
The premises on Lambton Road were purchased in 1972 by the owners of Lambton Lumber and Builders Supply Ltd., a long-established company in the Sarnia area. Until early 1991, the Lambton Road location was used as a wholesale service yard. Prior to that time, all retail sales had been made through Lambton Lumber’s predominantly wholesale yard, which was located on a main thoroughfare in an industrial area close to the downtown area.
In April 1991, the main emphasis of the Lambton Road store became retail business. It was felt the establishment of a separate, retail-oriented outlet, operating on a cash and carry basis, would relieve the main yard of the expensive and tedious process of filling, billing, and delivering many small orders from wholesale inventory. Prices on retail orders could be reduced since costs would be lowered, and the product line could be diversified and better merchandised in a retail outlet.
The city of Sarnia was...
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