r/canadaguns • u/Mysterious_Sleep7443 • 16h ago

News / Politics / Activism S&J Hardware Store Closing

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Simon posted this on CGN a few hours ago

Well...

I don't need to tell anyone how bad things have been in the gun business for small local shops.

More them 100 gun business have closed that I know of in the last years. Due to the government and the massive cost of living increases.

We have held out for many years longer than I thought we would.

With more then 80% of the products we would sell having been taken from us along with almost zero help from the industry wholesalers.

Along with our local economy being at a 70 year low.

No one can get a job here and any staring job is not offered to Canadians.

No one under the age of 25 can get a job

This puts a lot of financial strain on family.

In short we can not keep the store open.

We will be closed as of this coming Wednesday as we move everything into our wearhouse/manufacturing location in Trenton ON.

There is a small chance we will attempt to have a retail spot at our Trenton location.

But unlikely it will be viable.

Elbows up ER!!!!

BBB

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u/Mysterious_Sleep7443 16h ago

Very sad to see any firearm/accessory business close down

My experiences have actually not been the best with them

I have ordered from them in the past only to encounter issues, wrong parts shipped, no returns of my phone calls or email, wrong mag tube extensions being sent, cross threaded, wrong pitch, whatever

Only to receive an "all sales final" answer back

No replies to emails for weeks/months, citing family issues, health issues

Im not going to go on and on

I hope things can turn around for S&J

Maybe focus on selling on Gunpost ?

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u/IAccidentallyCame 3h ago

Yeah same. I kinda feel half bad their closing, but dealing with them was bad the one time I did. They sent 75% of my ordered items, charged me the full amount, and didn't respond to calls or emails.

I charged back my credit card for only the items they did not send but charged me for. They never did respond even after the fact.

That all said, the items they did send were of high quality.