Harold S.:
Exactly 4 weeks ago, on Sunday, April 26th, I went to the Canadian Tire Store on Sainte-Anne-De-Bellevue Street in Montreal, which is situated pretty much in a bilingual area of Montreal. As there were no credit card or loyalty points application forms in English, I wrote to Canadian Tire's head office to complain. Several weeks later, I received the following reply. " Dear Mr. Staviss, We write further to your email dated April 26th, 2015. Thank you for sharing your concern with respect to the lack of English credit and/or loyalty card applications in our Canadian Tire Stores in the province of Quebec. Please be assured that all customer inquiries are reviewed carefully and assessed on an individual basis. Upon receipt of your concerns, we immediately commenced an investigation and can confirm the following support is in place for both English and French applications; • Through our Instant Credit Card application electronic tablets in-store you can change the default language from French to English. If you would like assistance in doing this, you can ask someone at the Customer Service Desk. • Paper loyalty card applications are available in English and French in the bilingual markets in Quebec. We are working with our stores to ensure they have English applications in stock. It’s possible they had run out of applications in your store... ...Thank you again for bringing your concerns to our attention and allowing us the opportunity to investigate and respond. Regards. Corporate Customer Relations Canadian Tire Corporation Limited 1-800-387-8803" Well today I went back to that store to buy a vacuum cleaner and when at the cash asked for a credit card application form. Guess what?? You got it, it was only available in French. So I complained to the manager and he is going to be looking into it (think I have heard that excuse more than a few times), So bottom line is, they lost a sale for $150.00. Question is why do you continue to ignore and discriminate against English speaking people living in Anglophone areas of Montreal, Laval and the South Shore. There is really no excuse for this. Do you not want our business? Shame on you guys. Time to show respect. Why did you respond to my previous concerns with false information??