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What kind of business is Brandon and Area lacking? What would people like to see come to Brandon? What kind of business is Brandon missing that other towns/ areas have that Brandon doesn't?

Would like to see shops like the UK's Aldi and LIdl, discount food shops. An 800 gram wholemeal loaf at about 50 cents Canadian. Strawberry jam 25 cents for a 1lb jar.  
Ok might not be the best quality but for those on a limited budget quite good enough for a sandwich.  
https://www.aldi.co.uk/  
Welcome to expensive Canada.  
 
Edited by vegimite, 2020-02-22 11:25:36

Maybe not something as big as Costco, but something like wholesale club in Winnipeg. Cheap bulk prices

something like No Frills or is that to much like SuperStore ?

Not sure why this topic keeps coming up. But....  
 
The issue in the City of Brandon is there is NO land or space for a grocery store to open up.  
 
Businesses that Brandon need are: No Frills, FreshCo, Save on Foods, Costco.  
 
All corporately owned current grocery stores in Brandon are making multi million dollars a year. The city can support another Walmart or another Superstore easily!  
 
I would be nice to get competition in the grocery department.

But A Red Lobster would be great !!

No Frills has less than Superstore, and we found it to be more expensive.

I think the topic often comes up at this time of year because of university student courses. I asked one of these posters once, and that is what it was about, a university assignment. It happens every year. A person could probably get the same answers (that are really not out of the box ideas) by just doing a search on here.  
 
I don't know...a survey makes sense too (which has also been done here regularly), but just asking on here & getting general opinions seems like a lazy way out when they should be getting out and doing their own research otherwise. This way is the "easy" way.  
 
***I think that a better option is observing what other cities/towns may have to offer and then figuring out themselves if it could work well here or not. That is putting a lot more productive effort into it (and shows a lot more entrepreneurial drive) than asking others to do the brainstorming work for them. Putting in this extra effort might give a better idea of what to bring to Brandon rather than asking the same people who really have no new ideas to build on. Edit to add: it can be more rewarding too. My opinion only, however.***  
 
No Frills is not a good option to come here for the reasons that I already stated above. Save on Foods is really just like Sobeys...and expensive too. I know various SoF stores in Wpg carry various things depending on the cultural market, but I doubt that it would bring anything unique to Brandon.  
 
As far as groceries, I read a lot of good about Whole Foods, but I don't know if that would be unique enough to add anything here.  
 
To the OP, are you just thinking of products or service industries? There are ways to think "out of the box" with regards to service industries too.  
 
Edited by Flutterby, 2020-02-22 15:10:11

for plus size men & women more casual wear .  
I find the higher end plus size clothing is more on the dressier(sp) side and pricey .Just need something price wise in between high end low end stores.

We need an Acme Tool Crib for industrial and contractor tools. Home Depot has a few brands but pretty limited light duty do-it-yourself type stuff. A few other retailers and wholesalers have a few tools, but little selection. The Tool Crib (Minot, Grand Forks, Fargo etc.) carries pretty much all brands of tools and pretty much anything an industry or contractor could need. I think the building/contractor and oilfield related activity in southwestern Manitoba would easily support and benefit from this kind of business.