{"id":3483,"date":"2019-06-06T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T14:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=3483"},"modified":"2019-06-06T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T15:24:32","slug":"canadian-tires-fancy-new-range-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=3483","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Tire\u2019s fancy new range &#8211; Vermont Castings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/strategyonline.ca\/2019\/05\/07\/canadian-tires-fancy-new-range\/\">Canadian Tire\u2019s fancy new range \u00bb strategy<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yet, as we know, Vermont Castings USA no longer makes grills, at least accordning to this email I rec&#8217;d when asking for a local part supplier:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&gt; Our Recommendation is as follows:<br \/>\n&gt; We no longer manufacture Grills or Grill parts. There is a company that<br \/>\n&gt; may have parts available, please follow the link below.<br \/>\n&gt; www.ibuygrillparts.com<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; Thank you!<br \/>\n&gt;<br \/>\n&gt; Jocelyn<br \/>\n&gt; Vermont Castings Consumer Support<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So did VC sell their name to CT, or did VC sell to a cheap (Chinese?) manufacturer and selling to CT.<\/p>\n<p>Following links at CT, downloading the manual for a current model says support &amp; etc is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vermontcastingsbbq.com\">http:\/\/www.vermontcastingsbbq.com<\/a>, which is a CT property.<\/p>\n<p>No mention of &#8220;china&#8221; in that manual.\u00a0 They do have to declare this sort of thing, no?<\/p>\n<p>On attempting to email via their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.en.vermontcastingsbbq.com\/pages\/contact-us\">support pages<\/a>, was told:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you have questions about a Vermont Castings BBQ that you purchased <em><strong>prior to 2018<\/strong><\/em>, please contact us by phone directly at 1-844-586-4660 so that we can help support<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Something&#8217;s fishy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Canadian Tire\u2019s fancy new range \u00bb strategy Yet, as we know,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[96,9],"class_list":["post-3483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-projects","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}