From meeting Darth Vader to eating at the food court, Waterloo region shoppers remember Hudson’s Bay
With Hudson’s Bay approaching his last few months, buyers in the Waterloo region have recalled to affectionate memories of the shop, from the meeting with Darth Vader to eat at the Arcadian Court of the shop.
At the beginning of this month, the oldest Canadian dealer, Hudson’s Bay Co., Filed for the protection of creditors And he said he intends to renovate the business. All the shops except six will be liquidated.
All three shops in the Waterloo region – those located in the Cambridge Center, the Kitchener Waterview Park shopping center and the Conesoga Mall of Waterloo – will close.
Ian McDonald, a buyer in the Kitchener shop, said that going to the bay as a child was “a kind of event” and it is sad to see a “closed” icon.
“I hope they can live,” he said. “We have many things about HBC Stripe at home.”
Jon Kutt and his wife were shopping around the Waterloo shop, looking at the items for the home furnishings this week. Kutt says he thinks that the closing of the bay is sad considering the amount of childhood he spent there.
“My mother worked in the bay in the 70s and 80s,” he said. “I saw Darth Vader in the bay in the 70s immediately after Star Wars it came out. David Prowse was in the Fairview bay. ”
Kutt also remembered that he had eaten at the Arcadian court.
“I would go out and wait for my mother to end the job. I would buy all my toys and would take it there,” said Kutt.
“It’s a legendary franchise,” added Kutt. “But that’s no longer what it was when it was sold.”
Kaitlyn Roberts was also in the Waterloo store looking for an agreement on clothes and said that while you lose the bay is sad, he understands why it is happening.
“They have such a large brick and mortar imprint that it is super expensive to maintain,” he said. “I think they were really behind from the point of view of the user experience with their online presence, their website and their mobile app”.
Deal? No agreement
Barbara Morrison, who was at the Kitchener Store, said that he rarely made purchases in the bay in recent years because of his steep prices.
“In the last two years, the shops have not been noted, almost disordered. It did not seem very organized to me,” he said.
What is the next for the bay
Wednesday, Hudson’s Bay asked an Ontario court to approve a renovation agreement This will give the company a few more days to save the six shops that are not among those to be liquidated.
The agreement will give the company an extra time to find an agreement that would help them pay senior protected credit institutions. Otherwise, the company will have to liquidate the last six stores.
Ashley Taylor, a lawyer for Hudson’s Bay, told the CBC News that the agreement, although not ideal for the company, is the The best arrangement it could find.
Bay liquidation sales will end by June 15th. The bay should free their locations by 30 June.
