Canadian Tire stores touch communities coast to coast, offering automotive and hardware products, sporting goods, clothes for work or play, convenient gas bar. Canadian Tire offers a wide variety of tools which are needed in everyday life at affordable price. In early 2006, ads featuring the couple were phased out replaced by a new campaign featuring overhead signs found in Canadian Tire's store aisles. A public traded company on the Toronto stock exchange, Canadian Tire shares are widely held. The majority of stores operate in distinct categories of automotive parts, tools and hardware, sporting goods, housewares, and seasonal. Canadian Tire offers competitive salary packages, an incredible work environment, and career advancement opportunities. Starting in 2007, the company ran month long advent calendar promotions which provided free CDs and discounts throughout the holiday season.