Hudson’s Bay Co.’s hopes of preserving six bricks-and-mortar stores will not come to fruition, with liquidation beginning at the six Toronto- and Montreal-area stores previously spared.
Items are now marked down at those locations by up to 70 percent. One shopper at the Bay’s Toronto flagship (pictured) told CBC News that he was “very happy” with his haul but also wistful about what he called “the death of the department store in Canada.”
