The Bay has just sent me an email announcing that select locations will be carrying Coach Leatherware products. The locations are: Queen Street, Montreal Downtown, Pointe-Claire, Calgary Downtown, Vancouver Downtown, Victoria, and Richmond Centre. Hopefully some people out there who don’t have a Coach store nearby will be near one of these locations. Though you won’t be able to use Coach coupons at The Bay, at least there’s still HBC Rewards.
Haha you stole this right from under my nose. Its on B 😛
🙂 hhheeheehhehe
It’s too bad that all Coach are now made in China… it’s not worth the price tag anymore. But thanks for the post. 🙂
^they have been made in China for a really long time. Like everything else lol.
*hides from Sally*
I agree with *me*, god knows how many cents they pay the poor child. I feel disgusted even thinking I own a coach purse!
Coach is really starting to dilute their brand. They can now also be found in Costco, not to mention the numerous ‘save 25%’ off sales online and in their own branded stores.
I’ll stick with good old chanel. 🙂
The thing is, if you’re rich enough (and I use that term loosely because I’m sure most of us here can find anything for cheap) to buy a Coach bag, you may as well go straight to the Coach store because they’ve been having lots of great deals lately. And I agree with the China comments. Once they start mass producing such an iconic brand it loses a lot of it’s ‘snootiness’. I guess for Coach this brand dilution strategy beats going out of business. Besides, most of the knockoffs are made in China anyways so if you can’t beat ’em…
Coach has been at Costco for atleast 5 years.
^ Yep and its been made in China longer. Its not all of a sudden. I do know however its not made by small children. Thats the knockoffs.
I used to drool in the store, now everywhere I look I see a Coach purse, even on high school students.
I think I’ll stick to my Canadian labels.
p.s. Nordstroms delivers to Canada, and the final checkout price includes taxes, customs, delivery, etc… They guarantee you won’t pay another cent at the door. During sales, even with the additional costs, it’s still cheaper than buying at a Canadian retail location.
You should buy a purse because you like the style, colour and quality, not because of the brand. Coach had a couple of good styles. Don’t like the bags that scream “COACH” though.
There’s a lot of goods coming out of China, so you’re bound to see some stuff at the lower end of the quality spectrum. But it’s ignorant to say that quality is bad just because it’s made in China.
It’s surprising how many things are now coming out of China, I was surprised when my new Burberry bag came from China. Prada also is now making some items there, as is Tod so I am sure that almost every brand does, Sign of the times I guess.
the problem with Coach is that everyone and their mother has one – fake or not.. I’d rather go to Winners and pick up a more unique leather purse for the same price or less..
I only like their clutches (can get one off ebay for like $30) and accessories (rings/scarfs)
I’m with FunkyMunky – now that everyone is carrying a Coach purse, I’d rather pick up something unique somewhere else instead. Some of their newer styles look junky to me.
Lol in little towns like mine its a rarity to see people with coach purses. In the city, signatures everywhere.
Poppy collection has a lot of cheap junky looking ones thats for sure.
I have some gorgeous all leather coach bags that dont scream coach and they are awesome.
the leather ones are better looking but again you can find nicer things in Townshoes for example – some of the leather bags there are beautiful 🙂 also – some of the Coach bags are fairly pricey – you might as well through another $100 in and get a proper deisigner stuff 🙂
lmao @ proper designer stuff. Tell that to the stock holders of COACH who make billions.
Coach is a proper designer. I hold my COACH bags higher then my Juicy bags.
I call Coach the “poor man’s designer bag”. Coach is still recognized as a designer brand and you can get a decent sized, well made hand bag that will last a lifetime for a relatively low price, especially if you shop the Outlets and wait for sales. I have a dozen in varying sizes, styles and colours. We aren’t celebrities and we can’t afford a grand or two for a purse. A couple hundred is okay in my books though.
Gosh, so COACHES 7000$ bags are poor mens bags? What about there $1000 ones?
I sure cant afford those 🙂
Where have you seen $7000 Coach bags? Seriously. If I had that kind of money to drop on a bag, I’d be looking at Fendi, Gucci or Prada instead… and buy 2!
there all snakeskin one was actually 7500$ lol! cRAZY eh!
it doesnt mean that when Coach bag is made in China the quality is not good. thats not right. Mostly products now are made in china, lots of factories choose to make in china now because labor in china is cheaper than in the US. But the quality is still the same as before. Products are made for EXPORT.
as far as i know Germany are also making Cars in China now.
You also have to remember that there is a big difference between the stuff found at the outlets and the stuff at the reg. price stores. The quality is much better at the stores. You can see it in the stitching and the styles.
Coach has always been made in China! Do your homework ladies! The difference is whether is was hand made or if it was made in a factory.
I saw a coach purse at the square one outlet in mississauga
And they had a purse for 10,000 dollars