in the past that was true. they are pretty close to traditional mark ups on most of their products. they have to be, look at the real estate their stores are situated on.

i for one will not be buying anything from race face as long as their products are in MEC. the one thing about MEC is they have substantial buying power and because of this, they cut out the local distributor and buy direct from the company. i used to work in wholesale and MEC bought our products through a US buying office so they didn't have to buy it from us. did this bother me? not really. what really bothered me is that my other customers in the general area couldn't afford to sell our product line at MEC prices so they just didn't carry them. MEC's recent expansion of their cycling business will do nothing but harm ibd's across Canada.