Beginning of the end for Zellers

[Zayre88]

The store may look clean now but aisles used to be cluttered with displays and skids of merchandise.  Stock was piled high on the shelves in narrow aisles.

If you notice on the left, the shelves once stopped 1 foot from the top of the gondolas and Zellers added red signs to enhance the visual effect.

However, Zellers could not resist to add shelves right over these signs across the store to stack more merchandise...

[Zayre88]

One more with 5 days to go:  Formerly the bed & bath area with hardware and Auto in the background.

[Zayre88]

Well our store is now closed. The last day merchandise was at least 90% off with and additional 20% off on top of that!  During the last hour or so items were apparently reduced to 25 cents each!

There was not much left however, mostly junk. Throughout the day pickup trucks were loading up shelves and store fixtures bought at the fixture sale.  Inside, skids of shelves were wrapped and tagged with another dept store chain name.

Several Zellers are still open apparently.  Every location that has been acquired by Target had to shut down by March 14th.  The 55 stores still open will apparently carry on until March 30th.

[Zayre88]

The last Zellers stores still open closed today.  Meanwhile our local store is now a work site.  A local contractor moved in to do $4 million worth of renovations to the store. (possibly including a small expansion).

Target installed this banner on the former Zellers:

[Zayre88]

Oddly enough, in May 2015, Target Canada will be gone and there will still be two Zellers store in business!

HBC kept 3 stores open as liquidation stores for the company.  They closed one in Montreal leaving two still open!

[Ameskid]

HBC kept 3 stores open as liquidation stores for the company.  They closed one in Montreal leaving two still open!

Are those similar to the Kmart/Sears stores that exclusively sell clearance merchandise? Or are store fixtures and the like for sale?

[JimSawhill]

Oddly enough, in May 2015, Target Canada will be gone and there will still be two Zellers store in business!

HBC kept 3 stores open as liquidation stores for the company.  They closed one in Montreal leaving two still open!

HBC should open up some ex Zeller's stores as Zeller's. Maybe Korvette will open more stores, too.