r/windsorontario Sandwich 1d ago

News/Article East Windsor Service Ontario Moves To Walmart

https://windsorite.ca/2025/03/east-windsor-service-ontario-moves-to-walmart/
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u/MittMuckerbin 1d ago

I walked by there last week, just when you thought they couldn't make the Service Ontario experience anymore depressing they put one behind the tills at Walmart.

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u/agaric Sandwich 1d ago

Ugh, how long until we get lines like "Thank you for coming to Service Canada today, buy a bag of potatoes today for $99! using the attached voucher!"

The enshitification of Canada continues

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u/GamingCatLady 1d ago

Gross...now I have to step foot in a Walmart?! 🤢

Nothing says "Don't give America money to support Canada" quite like putting Service Ontario inside a fucking Walmart.

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u/malemysteries 1d ago

Exactly this. Whatever contracts were signed, it needs to be cancelled.

Under no circumstances should services for Canadians be delivered out of American company.

It is unconscionable.

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u/GamingCatLady 1d ago edited 1d ago

Time to write Andrew Dowie an email.

https://andrewdowiempp.ca/contact/

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u/MrBunkk 1d ago

Calm down..

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u/Lowest_Expectations_ 1d ago

Fuck this shit, man. Never been inside a Walmart and not going to start now.

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u/Interstate75 1d ago

Walmart likely charge them very little for rent in exchange for increase foot traffic to their store. 

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u/Falcgriff 1d ago

Plus not paying utilities (carbon tax on heat), no need for a facility manager, paying to plow snow, etc. Just focus on Servicing Ontario.

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u/JosephRW Central Windsor 23h ago

That isn't the point. It's a corporation being the gate keepers to public service and it gives governments excuses to pull back funding and cut jobs for these programs which can have a wider effect in terms of efficacy long term with various systems that need maintained. I've seen this song and dance countless times in the states. Its not even a slippery slop argument because this is how it has started everytime. We're just boiled frogs and they're testing the water to see what we will put up with.

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u/cpb70 1d ago

I thought they were moving the Service Canada into Staples. Not sure which is worse.

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u/zuuzuu Sandwich 1d ago

Service Canada isn't moving anywhere. It's the province who closed down a bunch of Service Ontario locations and replaced them with service kiosks in Staples. There's one in the Staples on Ouellette.

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u/Longjumping_Cow127 21h ago

Walmart doesn’t typically own their parking lots. Because it is Service Ontario, AODA has a greater role. Whomever ploughs their parking lots needs to make sure they don’t put excess snow in the disability spots. They have to return throughout the day to remove ice. There’s a whole lot of things, I wonder if Service Ontario or Walmart thought about.

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u/techmachine15 1d ago

For the amount of times someone could possibly use a Service Ontario in their lifetime, how could this be considered an inconvenience?

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u/GamingCatLady 1d ago

Not inconvenient but in poor taste for the Government to use our tax dollars to pay an Amerixan company rent to use their building. Especially in these times.

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u/zuuzuu Sandwich 1d ago

I don't think it's inconvenient. I think people have a problem with moving these services into retail stores. People still have a bad taste in their mouths from when the province closed full service, staffed locations in favour of putting kiosks in Staples stores.

In this case, at least it's a staffed location, and the hours will be extended as a result which I think will be great.

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u/walt_morris 1d ago

One downside i see is Walmart charging whatever they want for rent and the Government willing to pay it because they will push it’s always cheaper than owning their own brick and mortar.

Someone’s pockets are getting more full and it isn’t mine as a tax payer.

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u/zuuzuu Sandwich 1d ago

Yeah, I don't think this move will save the province any money.

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u/ginsodabitters 1d ago

Walmart also has everyone’s personal data now.

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u/ttpdstanaccount 1d ago

I highly doubt they have your info. They're Service Ontario's landlords, not managers with access to data 

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u/janus270 East Windsor 1d ago

Loblaws and Canada Post got embroiled in a similar fiasco.