Zellers, long-gone retail giant, set to return to 25 cities
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Zellers is coming back to 25 Canadian cities, including London – where the discount department store chain began nearly a century ago.
The stores won’t be standalone, and will instead be located within Hudson’s Bay stores like the one at White Oaks Mall.
But that may be good enough for Canadians who mourned the end of the red and white chain in 2013, when U.S. retailer Target bought Zellers and its 220 stores in a $1.8 billion deal with Hudson’s Bay Co.
Each of the new stores will be between 8,000 to 10,000 square feet, Hudson’s Bay Co. said in a statement Wednesday.
Ontario locations are:
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“Customers will be greeted with a thoughtful selection of design-led products across home decor, toys, baby, apparel and pets, housed within Zellers’ signature red and white,” the company statement read.
The iconic retail brand’s return drew excitement from some Londoners after it was announced. “I think it’s great. I love Zellers,” one woman wrote on Twitter.
The stores should open this spring, the company said.
Sadly, there was no word on the re-birth of the Zellers breakfast and lunch counter.
The company is also launching Zellers.ca, where customers can get updates and shop.
That’s quite a long journey from the first store, opened in 1928 at 176 Dundas St. – now the home of the London Music Hall – by Walter Zeller.
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