AMC Action Plan for 2025-30

[Yury]

$213 milllion is essentially chump change for a nonprofit. Most nonprofits require quite a lot more just to survive in a corporate world of multi billion dollar for profit companies

You are wrong comparing a non-profit to a large company.
They (e.g. AMC and Coca Cola) do not compete against each other.
Do you remember a story how Canadian MEC abandoned its humble coop roots and decided to compete heads on against big retail chains?
It did not end very well.

 

[pwsull]

You are wrong comparing a non-profit to a large company.
They (e.g. AMC and Coca Cola) do not compete against each other.
Do you remember a story how Canadian MEC abandoned its humble coop roots and decided to compete heads on against big retail chains?
It did not end very well.

Point well taken Yuri. My experience is in health care where for profit companies in direct competition with non profits and are making it increasingly difficult for the traditional non profit hospitals (who emphasize quality of care over profits and pay outs to shareholders and CEO’s) to survive. First they took over non profit health insurance, now they are far along in taking over hospitals and medical practices.
Let’s hope the for profit world doesn’t find a way to subvert environmental protections and devastate the wilderness like they did in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

 

[KRooney]

Do you remember a story how Canadian MEC abandoned its humble coop roots and decided to compete heads on against big retail chains?
It did not end very well.

I haven't bought anything from MEC in a few years, and some of my best ice/snow/cold weather gear is from MEC. I did wonder why their catalogs stopped coming a few years ago. They still have an online presence. I hope REI doesn't follow their example. A few years ago I visited one of REI's flagship stores on the West Coast (multi-story) and was overwhelmed by their wall of headlamps - hundreds of them. At that point I had to leave.

 

[Mac]

https://happiestoutdoors.ca/mec-is-...ed and,they were putting MEC back up for sale.

We still have a store (bricks & mortar) in Halifax

 

[KRooney]

https://happiestoutdoors.ca/mec-is-for-sale-again-what-happened/#:~:text=In October 2020, the cooperative was dissolved and,they were putting MEC back up for sale.

We still have a store (bricks & mortar) in Halifax

I counted 26 such stores on the MEC website. I think the closest/most convenient one for me in NH is Laval.