Ah, memories. I miss the old MEC, before they overextended on real estate and had to sell the farm to private equity. I have a pile of MEC branded gear I'm still happily using 20 years on. I have some restrained hopes for the new ownership group to bring it back, but I'll always miss the co-op.
These lights would have predated the private equity era but I'm guessing sourcing options were somewhat more limited back in 2016.
I had a membership since 1994. They basically erased it.
Between that, and selling out to a foreign-private-equity-held holding, and the incident during which an innocent shopper who came to return an item was attacked by a security guard, and the idiotic Vancouver location with no connection between underground parking and the store room, I decided never to set foot there again.
Fuck MEC, the Mountain Equipment Coo^H^Hompany! Not the MEC you knew.
Actually, I should mention that I didn't know about their corporate change from a co-op with members. My first contact with the change was my account being erased and being told to create a new one because they are "changing over to a new system". No mention of having become a different, scummy company. Basically they started out by lying to long-time customers of the old MEC that it was just their database that was changing and for some inexplicable reason, not being able to migrate the old membership accounts. Just despicable.
sandworm101 · · focus · HN ↗
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These lights would have predated the private equity era but I'm guessing sourcing options were somewhat more limited back in 2016.
kazinator · · focus · HN ↗
Between that, and selling out to a foreign-private-equity-held holding, and the incident during which an innocent shopper who came to return an item was attacked by a security guard, and the idiotic Vancouver location with no connection between underground parking and the store room, I decided never to set foot there again.
Fuck MEC, the Mountain Equipment Coo^H^Hompany! Not the MEC you knew.
kazinator · · focus · HN ↗