Skeezix
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Oh, and they are going to be opening up Lord & Taylor stores in Canada soon.
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Oh, and they are going to be opening up Lord & Taylor stores in Canada soon.
Way more than rumours. Ogilvy did announce it would be opening a second store in Brossard. Even after the Weston purchase, there was an article in Les Affaires at the end of last year that said the store would still be opening, although the banner had yet to be decided (IIRC, "Ogilvy by Holt Renfrew" was one of the options).
Do you have this article? The rumors of Quartier dix30 were going around when Devimco and the Bombardier family were in the process to purchase Ogilvy. As soon as the Weston family purchased Ogilvy all the rumors were that they would be moving Holts to the Ogilvy location and completey shutting down Ogilvy.
I vaguely remember the Square One location from my youth. It was very green with wooden accents and I think was over two floors. Much smaller than a typical department store, but still bigger than any other non-traditional department store in the mall. There was also a store I recall called Aikenheads maybe? It was sort of housewares and home decorating. I think it was in the former Dominion's location, but is also long since gone.WRT Ottawa - anyone remember Brettons? That was the Canadian answer to Nordstrom back in the late 1980s. Its first store was in Ottawa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton's
I was in West Edmonton Mall last week and the store is well under construction with Simons hoarding advertising the new store! I think it said "Summer, 2012" as an opening date.And Simons opening in West Edmonton Mall was in all the papers. At the time, Simons made clear it had a plan to expand elsewhere in English Canada. There is a Simons thread somewhere here on Urban Toronto.
I was in West Edmonton Mall last week and the store is well under construction with Simons hoarding advertising the new store! I think it said "Summer, 2012" as an opening date.
Aikenheads was bought by Home Depot and was their springboard into Canada, sort of like Woolco was for WalMart.
They were both rumored but i don't think anything was ever confirmed by any of them.
I'm not very familiar with Barney's but isn't that the more high end department store?
Barney's is fairly high end. But Barney's Coop is slightly lower priced and geared to a younger customer.
The issue with Ogilvy was its business model. A majority of their floor space was given over to leased departments.
Barney's is fairly high end. But Barney's Coop is slightly lower priced and geared to a younger customer.
The issue with Ogilvy was its business model. A majority of their floor space was given over to leased departments.