<_ Casto News November 13, 1986 Company markets Biblical dolls which —. 16, 17, 18, 19 and Supermalls concern CFIB producing TORONTO (CP) — Skele- described himself simply as tor, the evil lord of de struction who lives in Snake Mountain with Evil-lyn the warrior goddess, may have met his match in David the Shepherd Boy The biblical David and his adversary, the giant Goliath, belong to a new line of “seripture-based toys,” the Praise dolls They're intended as an alternative to the many dolls — such as Skeletor and Evil lyn which promotes vio lence, destruction and un. healthy fantasy role-playing in children, Charles Fust, president of U.S.-based Praise Unlimited, said re cently in Toronto. “We became quite con cerned about the type of toys that were available on the toy market,” Fust said in an interview, during which he “a Christian.” “We didn't see a line: of action figures that did not either deal with an occult religion or a degree of vio- lence. Even G.I. Joe has got into terrorism. You don't have to be a fanatic to be appalled by the situation out there.” He was in Toronto with his wife, Susan, to tape a show for the religious program 100 Huntley Street and to pro- mote his “Bible-based” pro- ducts. The couple founded their toy company in 1983, starting with the Praise dolls — Faith, Hope and Joy. Squeeze Joy once in the pit of her stomach and she'll re- spond in a chipmunk-like voice: “Did you know that Jesus loves you, and He is God?" Cheldon's Ye Canpet Cleaning By BRUCE LEVETT Canadian Press Canada's shopping habits — once largely a matter of visiting the independent stores close to home — began to change about 35 years ago. That's when something called a shopping centre opened just outside an exclusive residential area of West Vancouver. Park Royal was the first development of its kind in the country — a strip of stores linked together with lots of free parking. Today, there is hardly a residential development anywhere from coast to coast without its own such centre or plaza or mall. And now a new phenomenon — the supermall emerging. It is a direct d: of that tiny sh strip that opened in 1960 at the foot of a mountain across the inlet from downtown Vancouver. And there are concerns the supermall may have as dramatic an impact as that of its tiny, upstart ancestor. is FACES FIGHT Voicing such concerns most stridently is the Canadian Already the Edmonton developers have approached the municipality of Mississauga, just outside Toronto — an approach that appears, for the moment at least, to have fallen dormant on the question of possible i such “You'd see two or three of these malls going up within a couple of miles of a relatively small town and the downtown cores were being devastated.” as provincial tax breaks. The federation has begun a “no concessions for super. malls” campaign. “Why would you investigate using tax dollars to sub- sidize such formi iti for retailers t h the province?” The federation asked Ontario Premier David Peterson of Ontario in a Telex. “If this proposed mall is commercially viable, then it should be developed without public funds,” says federation president John Bulloch. “Certainly no one offers independent retailers grants and subsidies on start-up.” FEEL PINCH Even without a supermall in Ontario, the federation maintains, more than 30 per cent of its retail members are “already feeling the pinch of unfair competition from large suppliers and competitors.” “And what about Atlantic Canada, especially New Fi ion of I whieh s it has a fight on its hands. In the first place, there’s the public acceptance that has greeted the West Edmonton Mall, a $750-million enter tainment and shopping complex where people car watch a National Hockey League team practise, panic on roaring circus rides, take a dive in one of four submarines and incidentally — shop. A recent release by the federation states: “There is no doubt that many people, as consumers, enjoy the wide range of products and services offered by such a stupendous development. “Promoters of Edmonton's version (the first in Canada) have little trouble enticing people from all over the West to fly in, even for a one-day look-see.” MAY SPREAD The main concern for the federation’s 76,000 members is that the supermall concept may spread across the country, with dire consequences for small retail businesses. Bru ick where 40 per cent of all small businesses report problems with unfair competition? “What happens when supermall developers set their sights on Saint John?” Jim Bennett, the federation's vice-president for legis- lative affairs, says Quebec and Ontario “and a number of other jurisdictions” began looking closely at proposals for mall development three or four years ago. Such proposals, he says, were passing through the municipal planning process “pretty quickly.” In the case of rural malls, developers would often go to “unorganized townships right outside a community and say ‘if you give us a tax holiday we'll put the mall in here — there'll be lots of jobs and you'll take shoppers away’ from downtown Halifax, or Dartmouth or wherever it happened to be.” Targeted townships “went for it in a big way and this was creating severe depression in certain parts of Atlantic Canada,” Bennett says. . have more to worry about than just the spectre of special tax treatment for malls and supermalls. “One of the worrisome developments is that individual grocers a few years hack started getting into buying groups to try to get their purchasing power up equal to that of the Safeways or Dominions or Loblaws,” says Bennett “Now the buying groups of the large chains are starting to get together to form super buying groups so that again they can get one extra Jevel-of discounts.” BUY OUTSIDE Judith Andrew, the federation's director of provincial affairs for Ontario, maintains that all this was “negative repercussions” not only for retailing, but for food manu facturers. “The natural tendency for people who are directing the large buying groups is to contact their personal contacts in California and to source their products outside the local area.” That hurts local producers. Andrew says “it's much more likely that the small independent will obtain foodstuffs locally and feed that money back into the local community Bennett sees this aspect as a coast-to-coast problem. “Superstores (giant combination grocery and drug stores) are going in in the West and there are terrific fights going on between Safeway and Loblaws,” he says. “We had all the independent bakers in Saskatchewan and Manitoba going crazy about a year ago. In the middle of the grocery war between Safeway and Loblaws they were giving away bread at a nickel a loaf or something like that, as a loss leader. They were baking it on their own premises.” FIGHT BACK Led by small retail businesses, some towns are fighting back by organizing downtown merchants’ groups and business improvement areas “to try to make Main Street more attractive,” Bennett says. Is the proliferation of malls and supermalls the wave of the future? rt CBS miniseries, BUCK HAVEN. 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Bennett feels that the resurgence of downtown areas more evident in Canada than in the United States, where devastated streets are often left abandoned — could be a sign of hope for the small independents. BEER HELPS “That's one of the reasons,” he says, “why we and our members have been in favor of beer and wine in the corner store,” a service available in Quebec and proposed in Ontario. “It goes hand in hand with the difference in the market shares of the chains and the independents in Quebec, where it has been only the independents that could sell beer and wine. 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