💸 The Reject Shop To Rebrand To 'Dollarama' After 44 Years

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And Amanda gam Nation. Do you remember where you were
when you heard this news?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Reject Shop is changing its name to Dollarama, named after
the Canadian retail giant that bought it recently for two
hundred and fifty nine million dollars. Dollarama wants to turn
the Reject Shop into a cut price supermarket and take
on Kmart, Target and Big w On.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
The Reject Shop it was always cut right. How were
they given away for free? How much?

Speaker 4 (00:29):
How cheaper than you said? It was named after the
company that's taken it over. Yeah, I agent so duh.

Speaker 5 (00:35):
But what's the ethos of the of the reject Shop?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
When I first moved out of home, I think that's
where we bought coffee mugs and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
I said it was bustard stuff, stuff that was no good.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Remember Clint's crazy bargains. Yeah so Clint. I don't know
what happened to Clint.

Speaker 5 (00:52):
He went crazy, obviously.

Speaker 6 (00:53):
I remember there was a lot of trouble with signwriting
from Clint Case.

Speaker 5 (00:58):
He's got to be very careful.

Speaker 7 (00:59):
But I love those I remember his kid and I
go and visit my grandparents in Bendigo and.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
They had a place called half Case warehouse. I don't know.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
You go and get a half a case of stuff,
half a case of dog food or some guy and
buy some.

Speaker 5 (01:13):
Stuff and there'd be some left over.

Speaker 3 (01:15):
Yeah, you can get half a case. Remember Campbell's Cash
and Carry.

Speaker 5 (01:20):
With Delilah doing that, and there was a dwarf as well.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
A dwarf.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yeah, she do ads with one of them, half case
with no bring back the good old days, back then,
good old days.