Sign of the times: The Bay s illuminated name goes dark, comes down from Portage Avenue landmark
Friday marked the end of an era in downtown Winnipeg as the Hudson s Bay Company sign was removed from the top of the six-storey building the corner of Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard.
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I’m staying out of the malls, shopping centres and big box stores and ordering as much as I can online.
(I’m a little ashamed to admit that I ordered a Jumbo box of cereal on Amazon last week.)
Shopping was never a favourite thing for me, but I got thinking of stores from years gone by.. and most of them show my age… but here were my favourites – Simpsons Sears and Eatons when I was a kid, Zellers for the diner, Kmart and Woolco for the caramel corn popcorn at the entrances.
When I was a teen and could go anywhere on my own, the It Store (kind of an early San Francisco) , Sam the Record man, A&A Records, Hobby Lobby, Radio Shack and the odd little store – Consumers Distributing where you had to take their little pencil and fill out a form.
After being open for just over a year in Prince George, Target is closing.
Target announced yesterday that it is closing all of its stores in Canada. It has obtained an initial order from the Ontario Superior Court of Justice for creditor protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
The order authorizes Target Canada to begin a court-supervised wind-down of its Canadian businesses. It also provides for a broad stay of proceedings against Target Canada and authorizes Target Corporation to provide a debtor-in-possession credit facility of US$175 million to finance Target Canada’s operations during the CCAA proceedings.
Target opened its location in the Pine Centre Mall in Prince George in early 2013. Target invested between $10 million and $11 million in upgrading the location at the mall. When it opened, it employed between 150 and 200 people.