Marlon’s Meat is back as Camden Market! I just got a comment on an old post warning me that the Butchers is back as Camden Market at 2500 Yonge Street. For those of you who are not familiar with the butchers incident it was quite the saga and a lot …
It’s been a year or so since this whole Butcher’s fiasco started. I was one of the lucky ones, getting my money back. It was probably because I work for the CBC (which I made a point of mentioning) and CBC had already done an expose on the whole online-coupon …
It’s always fun to look at the site after awhile and review the analytics to see what posts were popular. This blog is really just a collection of random thoughts and things I collect so there isn’t much in the way of a cohesive theme. This randomness is detrimental to the popularity …
Here is the presentation by the Current about the Butchers and on-line coupons. (pop-up player here) The program talks about how the butchers deal didn’t add up, and how the deal resembled a ponzi scheme with one set of coupons going to pay off another one. It is also a …
I received a call on Friday from a nice gal from Buytopia. While we chatted, she informed me that it was not a scam (I asked point blank) that Marlone and the Butcher’s had been members of the Yonge & Lawrence community for years and that in no way had …
Back in April, I, like apparently the rest of Toronto bought vouchers for a butcher shop on Yonge street aptly named “The Butchers”. At first I was wary it was a scam, I normally have a good nose for this stuff, but after checking out their website I thought, “what …