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As someone that lives in downtown Vancouver and was a regular Nordstrom shopper we have a very different view of Canadians. I think the real issue if the proliferation of high end brand specific stores, why buy buy a LV purse from Nordstrom when there is an LV store next door. The designer brands are just figuring out distribution themselves.

The luxury market is huge in major Canadian cities.

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I'm one of the people who enjoy luxury goods. I'm from the Toronto area (Niagara really), lived in Ottawa for 8 years. Every time we go to Vancouver we go shopping. The density of luxury goods is the best in Canada.

I think being from Van has skewed your perception a bit. If you look at other countries around the world you will see higher availability of luxury goods, in higher density.

The watch market is a good example of this.

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