| # | Name | Comments |
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| 1 | Blake Crothers | |
| 2 | Michel Gauthier | |
| 3 | colleen watters | It is vital that the CNIB store remain open. It is difficult to shop online through Toronto for items such as watches, where it is important to be able to handle the items before purchase. Order through Toronto will take longer, add unnecessary shipping charges and make it difficult for those who are unemployed and can't use credit cards to shop. Given that the CNIB is client-based and service-oriented, this is a step backwards, not forwards. |
| 4 | colleen watters | Closing the store will make it difficult for those who want to purchase items to handle them before buying. Ordering through a catalogue is difficult for those without technology to order online, is more time-consuming, will add unnecessary shipping charges, etc. Many blind people are unemployed, and ordering by phone or credit card will be difficult for those who do not have credit. CNIB is supposed to be service based and client oriented, and this is a step backwards. |
| 5 | Ross Eadie | There is much more to the cnib than the closing of the stores in Canada. The cnib is running things like they are a for profit entity. They should be in the business of getting out of business generally. However, the store is critical for those who cannot use the Internet such as non-technical seniors and people who are poor. Many people who are blind are poor. It is also important to consider that Wallmart builds stores with goods inside instead of running an Internet operation. What is the reason for their practice - people like to see and feel the product they are purchasing. If they put more resources into mobility skills and rehabilitation, the cnib could be more successful in building independence, thus getting out of business. The store would still be a needed charitable operation as people need products in their day to day lives and losses can be offset with charitable dollars. One last note: if they are closing down the store due to loss of money and high costs, why aren't they closing down the special library for the blind when they say they lose a lot of money on the operations? Do they actually make money similar to profit on the library service? It is sad that a not for profit, social service agency will not run the socially responsible, money losing stores but continue to run a special library service that could easily be accomplished by the for profit, private sector publishing industry for the most part. Any books with small circulation or sales figures could be produced by the National Library, paid for by the Canadian Government. Let us save some money by cutting senior management positions at the cnib on Bay Street. It is clear they want to be private sector managers. They can get those careers if they cut the ties that bind. |
| 6 | Miles Mckay | |
| 7 | Judy | |
| 8 | Larry Dick | |
| 9 | Adam Schinkel | |
| 10 | Donald Connors | |
| 11 | Tim McIsaac | if you can't see you need to actually be able to go and check out what you are buying. to expect blind people to by on line is not very realistic |
| 12 | Lisa Reimer | |
| 13 | Rita Ferens | |
| 14 | Jane Sayer | I feel keeping the store open is important to persons who are Deaf-Blind .
Persons who are Deaf-Blind who may need items such as tactile watches and need to handle the merchandize to know if it is suitable..
Looking an article in a catalogue is not a suitable way to decide if the item is what we need.
Computers and Internet is not available to the majority of persons who are Deaf-Blind many who are seniors or low income..
I hope CNIB reconsiders this decision. |
| 15 | Anonymous | |
| 16 | Stephen McIsaac | |
| 17 | Colette Schinkel | My brother uses this store and I know how much it means to him. He is on a fixed income and if this store was to closed I know that it would effect him and other a great deal. So I ask you to please keep this store open for him and all the others that need and use this store. |
| 18 | Colette Schinkel | My brother uses this store and I know how much it means to him. He is on a fixed income and if this store was to closed I know that it would effect him and other a great deal. So I ask you to please keep this store open for him and all the others that need and use this store. |
| 19 | Rebecca Hicks | I do believe that having an online catalog is a step in the right direction. However, closing the store creates a hindrance for those who have no access to the internet or knowledge of its use. Working for a catalog order company I can tell you that people are apprehensive about buying something 'sight' unseen'. This is more so the case for individuals who are unsure if the product will help them or not. |
| 20 | Karen Schwartz | |
| 21 | Wylie Bystedt | To close a store that services a group of individuals that are tactile-oriented without providing another venue for them to actually handle the objects prior to purchasing is un-inclusive and inaccessible. |
| 22 | rene | |
| 23 | Judy Benson | |
| 24 | Geoff Fierce | |
| 25 | Pat Meekins | |
| 26 | Pat Meekins | I do not wish to make ANY financial donation. Your list does not offer that option. If it costs money to sign your petition, please remove my name. |
| 27 | Lee M. Kozak | |
| 28 | Joan Wiebe | I am a Deaf-Blind person and I need to see and touch and feel things to see if they would work for me. If it is in a catalogue or on line a picture does not help. that means one would have to order it and then if doesn't work send it back. That doesnot make sense. |
| 29 | Anonymous | Please keep it open. As I purchase items from the
Store for my son . Items which I cannot find anywhere else. |
| 30 | Anonymous | I live in ontario where CNIB closed the stores across the province, and in Ottawa clients are not happy about the decision, which was never discussed with clients, and now we bore the cost of mailing cheques, trying to figure out what items are, online. I believe this is a lack of care by management, to providing the opportunity to touch items and try them at a store. |
| 31 | Melisa Dell | |
| 32 | James Gagnier | |
| 33 | Candice Badger | |
| 34 | Kathy Wilson | I am really disappointed that the CNIB has been closing local offices as well. I don't honestly think those people making the decision cared at all about the people who won't be receiving the help that CNIB is so famous for giving to the blind and visually impaired. |
| 35 | Anonymous | Closure of the Ottawa Store at Prince of Wales made it impossible for me to get a large print calendar, something I need badly.
I was told that I could the calendar from Toronto for a price of $4.00 plus $10.00 shipping and handling!!
Alternatively, I could the calendar at Staples. The Staples calendar has very small print!! |
| 36 | Anonymous | we are having enough trouble as it is to get tech aids and other items... where else do we go to get our tech aids if the store closes? |
| 37 | Jean Bodner | |
| 38 | Peter Wade | It is wrong for CNIB to close the technical aids stores across Canada in favor of catalogue shopping. People trying to purchase items like talking watches need to be able to hear how the item sounds before making a decision. In the case of magnifiers it is crucial that you be able to try them out before buying. Many other items that are carried by CNIB are similar in that the customer needs to handle them to ensure that they are suitable for their needs. With the stores closed we have to guess at the suitability of an item and if it is not what we need or want the cost of shipping becomes a major expense when having to return multiple items before we get the right one.
CNIB should keep stores open where they are and reopen the ones closed across Ontario. For an organization that is always telling us how good they are at supporting their clients and providing cutting edge service they don’t have a clue about customer service in the real world. Shame on their management team who thinks nothing of wasting millions of dollars on exorbitant salaries for the executive and new buildings to showcase their prestige but can not find the necessary funds to keep what is an essential service open and available to their clients. |
| 39 | Bruce Taylor | please reopen the kingston store |
| 40 | Anonymous | |
| 41 | Anonymous | |
| 42 | Susan Forster | The CNIB was established to serve blind people and it damn well should! |
| 43 | Nigel Rhodes | there is a need for a publicly open store when purchasing gifts. |
| 44 | rene maurice | |
| 45 | Wilma Maurice | do not want this store to close.
Is not the CNIB there to help the people in need. |
| 46 | Anonymous | |
| 47 | Maureen Hogan | Please do not close this store or any others around the country. As someone who has family members who rely on this service I truely believe it will be an injustice to them to have this happen! |
| 48 | garylelond | |
| 49 | Stan Munroe | |
| 50 | Judy Redmond | The store is a valuable resource. |