Not a Canadian, but wonder why the Canadian market is so difficult? Obviously different countries have different climates, tariffs and subsidies, shopping habits, tastes, cultural norms etc but the Canadians on the forum seem to have a harder time with fashion retail locally and online.
Do you think US companies assume it is like the US market and ignore the differences, or that Canadian shoppers prefer Canadian brands/ownership, or trade restrictions etc?
NZers often think of themselves as similar to Canadians ( a smaller population next to a larger population) and we have a lot of Australian fashion retailers in our market. One or two have up and left (Sportsgirl, Katies, Sussan, David Lawrence to name a few off hand) but many seem to be doing okay (Country Road, Just Jeans, Witchery, Dotti, Decjuba, Jeanswest).