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Zellers was a Canadian discount store chain founded by Walter P. Zeller in 1931. It was acquired by the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) in 1978, and after a series of acquisitions and expansions, peaked with 350 locations in 1999. [2]
The store was soon expanded to 7,500 and then 10,000 square feet, and was replaced in 1962 with a 45,000 square foot unit directly behind it. A second Zayre store opened in September 1956 in the Roslindale section of Boston, a much larger 39,000 square feet. Within a few years, Zayre stores would average 70,000 to 90,000 square feet. [5]
Stores Type Owner Meridian Mall: Okemos: 997,128 sq ft (92,600 m 2) Enclosed 125 Super regional: CBL & Associates Properties: Lansing Mall: Lansing - Delta Township: 830,052 sq ft (77,100 m 2) Enclosed 100 Regional Kohan Retail Investment Group: Eastwood Towne Center: Lansing Township: 332,131 sq ft (30,900 m 2) Open-air 66 Lifestyle center
Zellers, once a widespread and popular Canadian department store chain, sold its retail leases to Target Canada, which, by 2013, shuttered its Canadian stores. [345] The last two remaining Zellers stores closed on January 26, 2020. [346]
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Target confirmed the list of its locations in July 2012. [27] The chain finalized its 127 stores to open in 2013. [27] Of this total, 125 were converted former Zellers stores. [27] The other two locations in Niagara Falls and Centre Laval were sites that had been occupied by Walmart stores.
The first Fields store was established in Vancouver in 1950 by the chain's founders, Joseph Segal [1] and Saul "Sonny" Wosk. From there, Fields grew to eight stores by the time it opened a store at Capilano Mall in North Vancouver in 1968, continuing to expand across British Columbia into the 1970s with the acquisitions of several regional retailers (including several small HBC stores in ...
In 2011 a number of smaller stores combined to create space for a new Sport Chek location. As part of its acquisition of 39 Zellers stores, in September 2011, Walmart Canada announced that the Zellers location would become a Walmart Supercentre following renovations to be completed in 2012.