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However, retail analyst and author Bruce Winder says the brand carries a significant amount of baggage. At its peak in the s, the retailer with the red and white logo had locations.

But after the arrival of Walmart, which offered better prices and a wider product selection, Zellers struggled. At the time, the company was down to stores. By , nearly all Zellers locations had closed. Three stores in Surrey, B. I mean, Walmart has gotten significantly stronger. Amazon is now incredibly strong, and other folks like Canadian Tire and Costco have really upped their game," he said.

Waterloo County, Ont. But an American firm bought him out and subsequently went bankrupt during the Great Depression. Zeller purchased back the Canadian properties, which had grown to 14 locations by then.

Of the three locations, Montreal and Surrey closed in That same year, the Ottawa location re-opened, leaving it and Toronto store as the sole remaining Zellers stores.

Are you looking for a stock? This is about the Zellers," he assures. I'm a Zellers fan. Hall started at Zellers when he was 15, working his way up to general manager of marketing, where he ended his career in That's when most Zellers were closing down or converting to now-defunct Canadian Target locations. Along the way, he met his wife. She was working at another department store, Towers, when Zellers took it over.

And we've been married 28 years," he said. Maria Hall remembers how Richard relentlessly tried to woo her. She worked at Store No. The store was like, 'What is going on, Maria? Like, what is going on with this guy? When Target came in, Richard and Maria Hall both lost their jobs. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Richard kept the letter employees received when Zellers made the announcement that the U.

That includes the Etobicoke location, in Toronto's west end, which has seen hours-long lineups over the past few weeks, with shoppers snaking around the store, hungry for sales. The final two locations are a bit different than other, traditional Zellers that Canadians may remember, Hall said.

They instead liquidate the Bay's leftover inventory. Many people are active on a Facebook group called "If you ever worked for Zellers," where store and corporate employees from around the country reminisce.