About two months after the federal government temporarily knocked the GST off a holiday-centric array of goods, Dave Doyon says he considers the move “a gift” even though a hoped-for flurry of sales never fully materialized.
His Imaginaire toy stores saw a 15 percent sales increase in January but it’s hard to parse out whether that was inspired by the tax break rather than marketing, shoppers’ whims or people looking for more indoor entertainment amid cold weather.
