What are some good Canadian-owned retailers to buy electronics, electronic components, and computer accessories from?
I’m talking about things like USB hubs and peripherals, monitors, cabling, and electronic components like you used to be able to get at the Radio Shack of yore. For audio stuff, I go to Long & McQuade, but non-audio? shrug
Ideally, this would be a brick-and-mortar place in the GTA (but outside Toronto proper) but online would be great, too.
Sayal is good for electronic components. Canada Computers is good for electronics. CCs selection is surprisingly good and they have other stuff that you would not really expect (3D printing filament, sometimes legos and other toy kits). Both of these have shops in the GTA.
ShopperPlus is good as well. They are based out of Quebec. If you are looking for cables, toner, and some of the other assorted household and office stuff you would otherwise get from Amazon they are worth checking out.
For other random retailers, I usually check out Shop.app which I think is Shopify’s platform. The stores aren’t all Canadian but depending on what you are looking for, you might find a local source with brick and mortar in the GTA.
Pay with cash, gotcha.
No live store in Ontario, but in Alberta we default to Memory Express. They’ve been awesome for a few decades now.
Canadacomputers?
I have been moving a lot of my computer things to raspberry pis, because they are designed and use and they use arm processors designed in Europe. Sure I could probably do everything I do with the the 5 or 6 pis I currently have with one or two but I do not have any other computers that I use.
My Mac Pro cannot connect to the internet for whatever reason and the Mac Book or whatever the intel ones are called does not start up so I am cool with not using them. Next week I plan on taking my AppleTV out of my media centre and replacing it with another raspberry pi, I want to remove it from network altogether but I still have somethings in my smart home that require it. I may get more pis to replace my HomePods or some other device to work with my recent install of Home Assistant, on a pi!
I’ve heard lots of bad reviews of CanadaComputers and very few good (or even “average”) ones. What’s your experience been like with them?
Thanks on the PiShop and Solen reccos!
Its where I go by default since forever. I’ve never had a problem.
I’ll be less hesitant, then. Thanks!
I have a bunch, however you gotta be a registered businesss sooo… pro ably won’t work.
I then decided to check the interwebs and say the NCIX website was still operational… lol I can’t believe they just devolved into a referral website that just points to Amazon. I find it quite funny actually
